Those Gumi boys are only doing the business of their master.... It doesn't matter who died along the way

That man quoting bible freely is an hypocrite and a bigot who sees all non Muslim as khafri and will not spare anything to for Allah.

Was he not the one telling the victimized people of Southern Kaduna and Benue States to vacate their ancestral land for fulani egocentric maniacs or be killed and the land taken.

To hell with you Mr alimonjiri trained terrorist.

Kandeed:


Well it might please y'all to know Buhari just acquired a whooping number of 12 turboprop engine Super tucano aircraft and fortunately for us the NAF just graduated one of the most gallant 6 wing pilot trained for destruction. Now here is the calculation. you know Egypt is an enemy of Isreal? Buhari is a Muslim same with Egypt a Muslim nation to. all Buhari need do is ask for permission from Fattah al-sisi to deploy 10 of the Tucano to Egypt and await his command to bombard Isreal to the ground. everyone will be shocked and then, there will be a new birth of Nigeria as Nations will now apportion that respect we deserve and finally we'll have a sit at the UN security council.

OMG too much sense will not kee me

That's exactly how you people are talking nonsense in favour of collaboration between Hammass and Palestinian terrorists that one bomb from Hammass will reduce Israel to ashes but 5days after everyone started shouting "genocide"and quickly ran to United Nations to come and safe you terrorists from the iron fist of the Israeli.

Nigeria will not be an exception and I trust all Islamic terrorist nations will desert you in the days of your self inflicted calamities.

If you can borrow money from a third world country like Brazil you can also stoop so low to ask Obi Cubana for little favor......

Shameless, brainless lier Muhammed.

Don't mind all those "aleti-lapa" people from the south...... I warned them as well but the voice of wisdom was terribly bitter in the ears son perdition.... Mannabbq-vulture grills, Sarrki, late Hungerbad, omenka and several other keypad warriors....

theTranslator:
Later they'll call us betrayers


They are ingrates
With the way ipob guys talk here
If I was Fajuiyi
I would have shot Ironsi in the back of the head and deliver his body

We just have to see beyond hatred and disaffection between us in the southern Nigeria if we will ever see the promise land from afar and then journey into our lost God given heritage.

*FAJUYI AS A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE YORUBA AND THE IGBO*

First published in my column, #TheAlternative, in today’s ThisDay.

In my column last week, I published a piece, titled ‘Destroying Age Old Myths About The Yoruba’, in which I described the heroic sacrifice made by Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi as apocryphal.

Apocryphal simply means a historical event that cannot be proven.

I was referring to the refusal by Colonel Fajuyi to abandon the then Head of State, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, choosing instead to be loyal to him until death, even though he was given the option to remain behind at the Military Governor’s residence, which would have spared his life.

I have since discovered that I was wrong, and I apologise to the family of the late great Colonel Fajuyi. The account of his death is not apocryphal. There were witnesses and I have since verified the authenticity of the account of his death from an eyewitness and another remote witness.

The events were confirmed by a former minister, who also happened to be a soldier in the Nigerian Army when that incident happened. He was there and saw it and confirmed it.

Also, a former President, who was himself involved in pulling Nigeria away from the brink confirmed it.

Colonel Fajuyi pleaded for the life of his guest, Major General Ironsi, and when his pleadings fell on deaf ears, he insisted that if Ironsi would be killed then it would be over his dead body.

The rest is too gruesome to recount here, and out of respect for his family, I will stop here.

Colonel Fajuyi was a hero like no other. The only person who has shown a similar loyalty in Nigeria’s history is former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was the best friend of Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, and who stood by his friend, in life and death.

After Nzeogwu’s death (the circumstances of his death are still hazy and shrouded in controversy) at the age of 30 on July 29, 1967, his friend, Olusegun Obasanjo, cared for his family, and assisted his siblings with their education, and became like a son to his mother.

(Let me here note that Nzeogwu’s death was spiritual, and dare I say mystical, because it occurred on the first anniversary of the July 29, 1966 Northern counter coup. Why is this significant? It is significant because on that day, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed as a direct result of Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna’s actions of January 15, 1966. Ifeajuna himself would later be executed in Biafra on September 25, 1967. If you attended primary school in Nigeria between 1960 and 1990, you may perhaps have used an exercise book known as the OLYMPIC 2B Exercise Book. The man who was drawn on the front cover of that exercise book is Emmanuel Ifeajuna. The drawing is of his Gold winning High Jump at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, in Vancouver, Canada).

At great risk to his political future, Chief Obasanjo wrote a biography of his late friend simply titled, Nzeogwu, which was published in 1987.

That book caused an uproar in the North because of the way and manner Obasanjo eulogised the man who killed the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello, believed to be Northern Nigeria’s greatest and favourite son.

Obasanjo did not have to do it. None of Nzeogwu’s military colleagues from Eastern Nigeria did it. But he did. And in the preamble to the book, he admitted that he knew he was attracting enmity to himself, but that he would take it as the price he had to pay for honouring his late friend’s memory.

As a matter of fact, thousands of copies of the book were bought by Northern groups and taken to the University of Zaria (now known as the Ahmadu Bello University), where they were burned in a ceremony eerily reminiscent of the Nazi Book Burnings organised by Josef Goebbels.

As they were burning the books, the mixed group of students, faculty members and clerics were insulting Obasanjo, calling him in English and Hausa “arne”, ''traitor'', ''conspirator'' and ''ungrateful person''.

The anger and indignation caused by the book was so widespread. There were riots, and the Niger State Government (the then military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, a great admirer of Ahmadu Bello was from Niger state), revoked the Certificate of Occupancy to a 5,000-hectare piece of land that had previously been allocated to Obasanjo Farms Nigeria Limited.

The furore caused by the event made the book an Instant bestseller, and I read it as a thirteen year old boy. It attracted the foreign press, and the New York Times did a special feature on the troubles caused by the book in a piece entitled ‘Of Fig Leaves, Art and Other Disputes; Nigeria: Strife Stirred By Best Seller’.

That New York Times piece is still available online. I urge my readers to read it.

It was speculated that Obasanjo’s political career was over, because of his book on Nzeogwu. Some even went as far as saying that he lost the race to be the Secretary General of the United Nations to Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt in 1992, because the Babangida administration was not really keen on his candidature for what they felt was his stab on the back of the North with the book, Nzeogwu.

Babangida may not personally have retained his bitterness five years after the book. However, there were elements in the North that nursed their bitterness up until then, and even beyond. Some still nurse that grudge to today.

So, it riles me when some persons accuse the Yorubas of being betrayers. Which person, living or dead, has shown as much love, loyalty and commitment to Nzeogwu, at such great personal cost to himself, as Obasanjo?

It is one thing to show loyalty to the living. At least, you can expect your loyalty to be rewarded. However, to show loyalty to the dead is almost unheard of. It is most chivalrous and altruistic, precisely because it cannot be rewarded. It is a virtue worth commending and emulating.

Obasanjo again displayed this trait, when he showed his loyalty to his late friend, Shehu Musa Yar’adua, by almost singlehandedly making his younger brother, Umaru Musa Yar’adua, his successor.

Umaru Musa Yar’adua, had already concluded plans to retire to a tertiary institution as a chemistry teacher, when Obasanjo plucked him out almost from obscurity. He did not have the clout, finances, or alpha personality required to dominate the political landscape of 2007. As a matter of fact, Obasanjo campaigned for him in more states than he himself campaigned.

Many people do not know this, but Obasanjo appointed Nzeogwu’s brother as one of his Special Assistants when he returned as Nigeria’s elected President in 1999. He also appointed the son of another January 15, 1966 coup plotter as his Special Assistant (I am honour bound not to mention the name of his father).

Not done, Obasanjo then appointed Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, the son of the late Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, as Minister of Defence in 2006. That was one of the most difficult ministerial appointments in Nigeria’s history, because certain persons felt it was an insult to their injury. And that, perhaps, was why Obasanjo only appointed him as minister in his second term. If he did it in his first term, he might not have won a second term.

Before then, Obasanjo made him an Ambassador. Can you imagine the flak Obasanjo got from the North? Obasanjo did not have to do it.

As a matter of fact, Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi was actually another eyewitness to the events of July 29, 1966. He was with his father at Colonel Fajuyi’s residence. He was hidden for his safety, but he knows what happened. And he is still alive today.

After Fajuyi was killed, his successor as Military Governor of the Western Region, Adeyinka Adebayo, became almost like a surrogate father to the late Aguiyi-Ironsi’s daughter, Louisa Aguiyi-Ironsi, who grew up partly with his own children.

Young people of Southeastern origin should not think that the Yoruba are their enemies, or that they are perpetual cowards, ‘sabo’, and betrayers. It is not true.

The only way we can ensure a level playing ground for all Nigerians is by having a common Southern front. When we have Southern solidarity, then we will have Southern equality with the North.

However, if you believe that the Yoruba cannot be trusted, Bendel people are cunning, Rivers people are backstabbers, and Akwa-Ibom and Cross River are ‘ete’ boy boy, then we will only have Southern disunity.

This is 2021. The son of a Black African Kenyan man is the most popular US President that ever lived according to a survey of mostly White people. His wife, the great granddaughter of slaves, is today the most admired woman in America, and possibly the world. A Nigerian is in the Biden cabinet, and seven Nigerians were recently elected or re-elected into the British Parliament.

Primordial thinking is dying out internationally. We cannot be the holdout in Nigeria. We should not be.

It is time to purge ourselves off primordial sentiments. Nigeria is in too bad a state for us not to realise our predicament and face our common challenges.

And even if we cannot be friends, let us at least be comrades. We have a common challenge with the nepotism of the Buhari administration. What we need in 2023 is a government headed by a Nigerian from any part of Nigeria (but preferably an Igbo person, not for primordial reasons, but to right historical injustices) who can treat all Nigerians equally.

And we are not going to get that if we call each other ‘ajeokutamamomi’ or ‘ewu Yoruba’. The cabal that believe in nepotism are watching us and laughing. Their divide and rule tactics are working.

And lastly on this issue, when I posted last week’s column on Facebook, a young man from the Southeast justified the stereotype of the Yoruba as betrayers, by alleging that they had usurped the houses of Igbos as abandoned property after the civil war.

The truth about that sensitive subject is that cases of ‘abandoned property’ was an issue that erupted amongst the ethnic nationalities that were themselves consanguineously linked to the Igbos in and around Port Harcourt and in around the Benue area (less prominent in the Benue area, and more prominent in the Rivers area).

In Lagos, as well as the entire Western region, property belonging to the Igbos were not seized by the Yoruba. Not at all.
As a matter of fact, not only were the Igbo able to reclaim their houses in the Western Region after the war, they were also able to claim back rent for the period between 1967-1970.

An example of this is the case between the late Alex Ekwueme and Otunba Subomi Balogun. Although they were not really friends, per se, they lived close to each other. Just before the outbreak of the civil war, Alex Ekwueme left Lagos for the Eastern Region, like most prudent Igbos.

After the war, he returned to Lagos and, surprisingly, met his house in a renovated condition. While he was wondering what happened, his neighbour, Mr. Subomi Balogun, approached him and gave him his back rent in cash. These were the words that Mr. Balogun spoke to Mr. Ekwueme on that day in 1970:

“I renovated your house, rented it out and this is the rent we collected.”

Otunba Balogun is still alive, as are the children of Alex Ekwueme. This account can be confirmed from eyewitnesses.

What we need at this point in time is mutual respect and keeping our eyes on the prize.

Which is why I am a bit peeved that some Southern state Governors did not attend the Southern Governors meeting which held in Lagos on Monday, July 5, 2021. All the Governors of the Southwest attended. Apart from the Governor of Enugu, no Southeastern Governor attended. They were represented. One of them did not even bother to send a representative.

The Governor of Cross River (who always looks like someone about to cry), did not even bother with the meeting.

This is not the time to be represented. This is the time to be present! Only Southern unity can bring about the emancipation of our people from the killer herdsmen and bandits now plaguing our land. If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

Southern Governors should read and memorise Genesis 11:6:

“The people are united, and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them.”

If possible, let that be their motto.


Reno Omokri

TOTOnigga:
Hello guys.... I don't just know.. Is it just me or is there anything I don't understand......my parents are rich people especially my dad, I know that for sure... someone paying #950,000 naira per year as school fees for me aside other expenses, plus multiple houses and lands I can't even keep count of....

How come they are this stingy? There is no time I would ask them for money for my own personal well being or any of my personal needs that they would like to assist me. I once ask mum for #12,000 naira just to buy a fairly used android phone (when I know they can even afford me an iPhone x) but she told me I should wait till months end before she gives me saying there is no money on ground... it's five months now and still nothing (not waiting for it though)...

Then I ask my dad, he told me I don't need an android phone... telling me that phone makes people unserious and other types of bulls*it( a 19 year old student for that matter)

Any expenses that is not book or academic related is not important...my parents would rather buy clothes for me than give me money to buy clothes... sometimes I end up not wearing some of them..

The funniest part is that, anytime I take any urgent lie(Asin scam) about any payment in school...they wouldn't Waits a second to send it to me... This has got me telling all sorts of lies just to get what I know can be gotten honestly.. It has even gotten to the point that any money that enters my hand now, I use it to play sports betting to see if I can get enough money for what I need, but I end up loosing the money...I am just frustrated.. someone time I wish I didn't even have rich parents cos what's the point...

Oh! How I wish I was as lucky as you are when I was like you.

Thank God for you stars and the privilege of having a rich but stingy parent.

Pecoleee345:
Why does the society see men hitting women as bad thing but women cursing and abusive as normal.

A woman who curses and abuses you will still have the nerve to ask you for money.

Am not a perfect man..... I have my flaws but I am careful with words because I know what bad words can do to people.

Should a man be forced to stay with a woman who curses, abuses and threatens to get him arrested if he touch her despite you have never lay a finger on her in 3yrs of marriage.

People are telling me she is doing it due to anger that she doesn't mean it......am told to avoid making her angry and is that possible.
She gets me angry most times but I just leave the house and go cool off...
I have tried to teach her the act of keeping quiet in moment of anger but she never learns

She is permitted to rain curses and abuses on me because she is a woman and am expected not to react because that's how most women behave.

At this junction have made up my mind to divorce her.....I never wished for this but I can't take this ...... many people see this character of most women as normal (am told there power is in the mouth) but I can't.

Lastly men please avoid women raised by single mother they come with venom and naturally demage psychological...they will take revenge on you for their father's sins.

Even if an Angel from heaven married to any lady with such character as depicted above will definitely misbehave one day and beat her up mercilessly. The sure antidote for her stupidity is to avoid her like a plague.

This is absolutely nothing to an attempt to officially brand Africans monkey and stigmatize us....

If this is not a racial profiling I don't know what it is.

That's so thoughtful....

That isn't zoning but common sense....

Ezeama400:


https://dailypost.ng/2021/07/12/open-grazing-ban-therell-be-no-peace-fulani-group-warns-southern-govs/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1626078516

Nobody has a monopoly of violence.... It does not matter how long it takes, every single drop of blood of any southerner shed by any fulani man is a debt and will be paid back in the fullest of time....

This regime shall surely pass.

INSECURITY: TOTAL REPORTED KIDNAPPEES, JAN - JUN 2021

North West: 1,405
North Central: 942
North East: 210
South South: 140
South West: 169
South East: 77

Northern Nigeria: 2,557
Southern Nigeria: 386

Nigeria: 2,943 Kidnappees in 181 days; 16 per day.

#StatiSense
(NST/CFR)

DEATHS & KIDNAPPINGS IN THE FIRST-HALF OF 2021

According to Nigeria Security Tracker security incident report, there has been 5,800 deaths and 2,943 kidnappees between January and June 2021.

That's approximately:
— 32 deaths per day, and
— 17 kidnappees per day

#StatiSense

2021 REPORTED DEATHS & KIDNAPPEES

DEATHS
Jan — 958
Feb — 879
Mar — 875
Apr — 1,032
May — 1,045
Jun — 1,011
Total Deaths — 5,800; 32 cases per day

KIDNAPPEES
Jan — 405
Feb — 709
Mar — 605
Apr — 406
May — 474
Jun — 1344
Total kidnappees — 2,943; 16 cases per day

#StatiSense
-NST

INSECURITY: TOP 12 STATES WITH MOST DEATHS IN 6 MONTHS - Jan to Jun 2021

1 Borno: 1,137
2 Zamfara: 862
3 Kaduna: 715
4 Benue: 449
5 Niger: 407
6 Ebonyi: 210
7 Katsina: 164
8 Imo: 153
9 Kebbi: 144
10 Yobe: 137
11 Oyo: 114
12 Anambra: 109

(Reported cases only)

#StatiSense
(NST)

INSECURITY: TOP 12 STATES WITH MOST KIDNAPPEES IN 6 MONTHS - Jan to Jun 2021

1 Niger: 795
2 Zamfara: 523
3 Kaduna: 479
4 Katsina: 289
5 Borno: 115
6 Kebbi: 103
7 Oyo: 63
8 Delta: 55
9 Taraba: 55
10 FCT: 52
11 Edo: 37
12 Imo: 33

(Reported cases only)

#StatiSense
(NST)

HOTBEDS OF DEATHS & KIDNAPPINGS - First-Half of 2021

Top 7 States — Deaths ||| Kidnappees
1 Zamfara — 862 ||| 523
2 Borno —1,137 ||| 115
3 Kaduna — 715 ||| 479
4 Benue — 449 ||| 9
5 Niger — 407 ||| 795
6 Ebonyi — 210 ||| 5
7 Katsina — 164 ||| 289

[Reported]

#StatiSense
(NST)

THE LGAs WITH MOST DEATHS - First-Half of 2021

1 Birnin-G, KAD: 233
2 Maradun, ZAM: 196
3 Katsina, BEN: 171
4 Chikin, KAD: 154
5 Zurmi, KAD: 152
6 Gusau, ZAM: 122
7 Marte, BOR: 119
8 Gwoza, BOR: 115
9 Ohaukwu, EBY: 114
10 Igabi, KAD: 107

[Reported cases]

#StatiSense
(NST)

THE LGAs WITH MOST KIDNAP INCIDENTS - First-Half of 2021

1 Rafi, NIG: 443
2 Talata-Marafa, ZAM: 317
3 Shiroro, NIG: 225
4 Maru, ZAM: 195
5 Kajuru, KAD: 145
6 Chikun, KAD: 115
7 Yauri, KEB: 102
8 Konduga, BOR: 74
9 Faskari, KAT: 74
10 Kachia, KAD: 72

(Reported)

#StatiSense
-NST

Delilah is a collective name for certain set girls..... If you know you know.

Rozcol:
Things that were freely given should never be returned, its against the rules "Spinsters Rule" Also never keep a gift from a boyfriend the way he gave you[b],be smart to immediately resell it and replace it with another one with some flimsy excuse. [/b]"Just Be Smart"

E fe ri were!... You want to see craze!

I buy you a car and because you are very smart in your own wise and immediately resell it... "With flimsy excuse" ....
I COMMENT MY RESERVE....

blackpanda:


Which mumu life in danger. He jumped bailed simple because he has uk passport. Kanu is a real coward. Ran to UK to be formenting more trouble

What was his offense after his condition of bail was perfected and released on bail by the court that made Nigeria Army to go and kill almost everyone in his compound? If he had not found a means to escape that night, what would have happened to him?

Ever since he was re-arrested, has trouble ended in Nigeria? Kanu was never a problem to Nigeria citizenry but the fulanis who has already subdued the Hausas by systematic conquest and has employed every means to disstabilize the country because of the illegitimate illusion of their great-grandfather.

Were the terrorists and bandits arrested in Nigeria being tried in the court of law

Were the terrorists arrested not being compesated and released back into the bush to continue their onslaught

Is there any punishment for terrorism and banditry in Nigeria

Is there any punishment for supporting and financing terrorism in Nigeria

Were some Nigeria governor's not paying ransoms and striking a pose with the terrorists

Only if you can honestly answer those questions would you know why Kanu is justified shouting "Let my people go"

Let Nigeria government start acting like a serious government and see whether all aggitations won't die a natural death.

What has House of Assembly or House of Reps done concerning illegality that surrounds Kanu's arrest? He jumped the bail when it became obvious that his life was in danger and that Nigeria Army have concluded plans to exterminate him.

The most corrupt and most useless political institution in Nigeria are National House of Assembly and the House of Reps. They had better described as retirement houses....

Any nation will reflect the nature of the ruler in charge of the territory.

Ofemmanu1:
Naso the stupid suyaselling basterrd of NL go set himself ablaze very soon while doing his rotten vulture bbq.

e no go better for mamabbqgrillz, zombies, BMCs and their darling daddy for making the country hard.
Fire burn Dem all.

hope4nigeria:
the storyline of 2 Indian lady was false, Abacha was assasinated through handshake

Were you there when it happened....

They found that India girls and apple narratives very embarrassing, so they gave us that handshake bladdarash.

The girl don knack Okpako... Akpako

That gender just dey send their opposite gender to Baba God for judgement...

AntichristXXX:
Mtcheew. Lai can't be dumb enough to embezzle only 30M. Doesn't make sense.

To the greedy, a rat poison will look sumptuous... Never underestimate the scorn of greed.

Shebi you people want to rule by force, now we've seen it all and by the way, Lai Muhammed lacks every capacity to complain about bad governance in kwara state..

Buhari : I want to rule, I have ruled before, please let me rule, now ! you're ruling.

See how he is ruling...

Recession came
Inflation came
Dollar rose
Crude oil product on high price
Food price skyrocketed
Every commodities on high price
Investors ran
Education sick
Politics flawed
Judiciary disarray
Governance in distress
Foreign exchange grow wings
Agitations multiplied
Kidnapping increased
Killings, abductions on the rise
Banditry legalized
Boko haram reigning
Fulani herdsmen destroying farm lands, crops and properties
Investment run down
Investors on the run
Political oppositions silenced��
N-KANU arrested�
Igboho on the run��‍♂️
Onions and tomatoes rusted instead of roasted.
Cows guided with ak47 while humans helpless
Cryptocurrency rejected
Twitter suspended
IPOB disbanded
Protesters demolished
Endsars killing debunked
Lekky protesters massacred
Church affairs interrupted
Corronavirus infected
Snake swallowed
Rat chased
Hospitals not funded
Nigeria roads in bad shape
Niger roads in jubilation
Ethnic divisions increase
Hatred increased
ESN formed
Amotekun formed
Unknown gun-men appeared
Everything worried
Everyone complaining
Country going down
Economy decreasing
International community watching
African union stranded
European union demanding
Guns and ammunition loading
Animals hungry
Human being hungry and angry���

Hmmmnnn

Where's Kogi State on the log


@op, please expunge any of the states mentioned and replace with Kogi...

Please what is Iyabo Ojo


Is it a demon

Many people from this government will even die before Kanu....

delzbaba:
People are not asking the main question, who got her pregnant in the first place at 17, she spent 8months plus in prison so if i do the maths...hmmm

Oga Ade...

What is your problem with the person that got her impregnated Is there any confusion or entanglement around the paternity of the new born baby

Oga.... You need to be calming down ooo

rawpadgin:
ITK dey worry. So because he carry men from area near body come mean say na crook? Na person like u go Bleep up for area no body go stand by you. Make i advice you, learn to dey carry area near body... U nor go believe how many people the sentence "leave am, na my person" don save for street

Street credibility...... Who no know no go know...

All I see here is political bomb to blackmail him so as to spoil the very last doze of integrity he may have with him.

Good for the bank as well.... Only a prodigal fool borrows rich man money.

As a politician, what business do you think he's doing that makes you borrow him other people's live savings and investment?