Full Video: What Southern, Middle Belt Leaders told Saraki

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The President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, John Nwodo, has suggested that too much powers in the hands of the executive is the reason for the disregard of the legislative arm of government by some public officials...

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Restructuring Nigeria: We must restructure Nigeria now, Southern, Middle Belt leaders insist.

Topics:

• Hausa/Fulani's rejection of federalism is a demand for dismemberment
• Northern leaders list terms for restructuring, want Marshall Plan
• We must restructure Nigeria now, Southern, Middle Belt leaders insist
• THE DANGER OF RESTRUCTURING WITHOUT A REFERENDUM-APPROVED CONSTITUTION
• What restructuring means in practical terms by ABC Nwosu
• It's time to restructure Nigeria, says Babangida
• Beyond restructuring or secession: My fear for Nigeria
• 'Why north is uncomfortable with restructuring'
• How Nigeria was de-structured
• TRUE FEDERALISM THROUGH RESTRUCTURING IS THE ONLY OPTION FOR NIGERIA NOW
• Road to recovery: A case for restructuring Nigeria
• Restructuring and its benefits for all
• Restructuring: Let's go our ways in peace -Rufai Hanga
• IT IS TIME TO RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA
• RESTRUCTURING AND THE YORUBA AGENDA
• Restructuring: Who lopsided Nigeria in the first place?
• The clamour to restructure Nigeria
• Why Nigeria must be restructured
• Who's afraid of restructuring?
• The restructuring rhetoric
• Nigeria: Formed by negotiation, will forge by negotiation
• Osinbajo commits political apostasy

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Hausa/Fulani's rejection of federalism is a demand for dismemberment
Written by Rotimi Fasan
~vanguard Nigeria. Wednesday, December 20, 2017.

IT'Simportant to enter a caveat from the beginning in the light of the title of this week's piece. Nigeria's greatness lies in its remaining one country that is made up of diverse ethnicities. That is one lesson to be learned from the present arrangement of the world. In spite of the tension of division and tribalism that has been created in Donald Trump's America, the fact remains that America's greatness lies in its diversity. It's the reason for the existence of many of the regional economic and political groupings around the world. It's the logic behind the decision of those European countries that have elected to remain part of the European Union despite differences. It's the reason they are unhappy with Britain and would quickly want to close the chapter on its breaking rank and choosing to exit the EU. Nigeria's situation cannot be different from the rest of the world. We can't be thinking of breaking up while others are finding ways to resolve their differences in a bid to remain or come together. It's not too likely that any of the component parts that make up Nigeria will do better alone than they would collectively as one country.


This is the reason we must be clear-eyed about the way we relate with one another and be determined to correct the injustices of the past rather than insisting on keeping them. Yet, it would appear that some self-deceived Nigerians cannot separate their self-interest from the interest of the whole. They fail to see the wisdom in relating to others on the basis of fairness and equity. This is where we have found ourselves as a country with the debate over the skewed nature of our federalism and how to correct it. The Yoruba have a saying that there are boundaries even in farmlands jointly owned by a father and his children. No matter how close we are, we still need some personal space for self-actualization, some room within which to operate and be able to function as individuals. It does not mean we are no longer one or have become enemies by such recognition.

BIAFRAEXIT: 16 northern groups give Igbo October 1 to vacate region /With Biafra, Igbo'll remain in Nigeria, says Nnamdi Kanu

Topics:

• With Biafra, Igbo'll remain in Nigeria, says Nnamdi Kanu
• 16 northern groups give Igbo October 1 to vacate region
• Arewa Youths Write Osinbajo
• Presidency replies Arewa youths letter to Osinbajo on Biafra secession
• Igbo youths to Northern group: We're not afraid of war
• Open letter to Prof Ango Abdullahi
• OPEN LETTER TO THE AREWA YOUTHS.
• Igbo dare Arewa: We won't leave North …demand Ango Abdullahi's arrest
• The quit notice to Igbo in the North
• Southern leaders demand Arewa youths to withdraw ultimatum.
• Igbo quit notice: Pan Yoruba group calls for Oodua Republic
• PRESS RELEASE BY THE MIDDLE BELT YOUTH COUNCIL.
• The Igbos Have Paid For Their Sins- Emir Sanusi
• THE YOUTHS OF ODUDUWA REPUBLIC LAGOS DECLARATION – 10TH JUNE 2017

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With Biafra, Igbo'll remain in Nigeria, says Nnamdi Kanu
Written by Ihuoma Chiedozie and Tony Okafor

~PUNCH Nigeria.  Tuesday, July 25, 2017.

Nnamdi Kanu

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday, said Igbo must not vacate the North, or any other part of the country, as a condition for the actualisation of the agitation for Biafra.

The IPOB leader spoke in an interview with some journalists in Enugu, where he received awards from a number of pan-Igbo groups, including the Igbo Women Assembly, the Eastern Consultative Assembly and the Igbo Students Union.

Reacting to the 'quit notice' issued to Igbo in the North by a coalition of Arewa youths, Kanu noted that secession from Nigeria did not imply that Igbo must leave the North, or other part of the country as suggested by the ultimatum issued by the northern youths.

He said, "You are aware that Scotland is seeking to leave the United Kingdom? Are you remotely implying that every person from Scotland, who lives in England, should now return to Scotland?

"Britain just left the EU. Are you now implying that every British citizen in the EU should come back to Britain in order to finalise that process of extraction of Britain from the EU?"

Kanu noted that what he described as "poor education" was responsible for the impression that Igbo must leave other parts of Nigeria in the event of the actualisation of Biafra.

EMIR SANUSI BARES HIS MIND ON HAUSA, IGBO AND YORUBA… THE PROBLEM OF NIGERIA

The former Central Bank Governor, and Emir of Kano His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi the second , surprised guests present at the Muson Centre for the launching of the book of Sir Olaniwun Ajayi. 

Below is his unedited speech.

“Let me start by saying that I am Fulani (laughter). My grandfather was an Emir also fulani my uncle and guardian was also the immediate late Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero and therefore I represent all that has been talked about this afternoon. Sir Ajayi has written a book. And like all Nigerians of his generation, he has written in the language of his generation.

“My grandfather was a Northerner, I am a Nigerian. The problem with this country is that in 2009, we speak in the language of 1953. Sir Olaniwun can be forgiven for the way he spoke, but I cannot forgive people of my generation speaking in that language.

“Let us go into this issue because there are so many myths that are being bandied around. Before colonialism, there was nothing like Northern Nigeria, Before the Sokoto Jihad, there was nothing like the Sokoto caliphate. The man from Kano regard himself as bakane. The man from Zaria was bazazzage. The man from Katsina was bakatsine. The kingdoms were at war with each other. They were Hausas, they were Muslims, they were killing each other.

“The Yoruba were Ijebu, Owo, Ijesha, Akoko, Egba. When did they become one? When did the North become one? You have the Sokoto Caliphate that brought every person from Adamawa to Sokoto and said it is one kingdom. They now said it was a Muslim North.

“The Colonialists came, put that together and said it is now called the Northern Nigeria. Do you know what happened? Our grand fathers were able to transform to being Northerners. We have not been able to transform to being Nigerians. The fault is ours.

NIGERIA AWAKE: YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND YOUR HISTORY TO KNOW YOUR FUTURE.

Sent by Stephen Mbah

Stephen Mbah

Real Reasons Gov't dropped History from Nigerian school curriculum!!!
Never mind the official story - That Prof Babs Fafunwa, an educationist & one-time Education minister, dropped History to encourage students to take up science & tech courses. NO! Pure lies. How has Nigeria fared in science & tech decades after? What have we invented? How come American history is taught at all levels from kindergarten, yet it has not stopped America from being a tech giant? Wake up Naija!!

Fafunwa was only used as a willing tool for a political cover up. The REAL REASONS Nigerian History was dropped are:

1. They don't want you to know that Uthman Dan Fodio was a migrant who arrived & was welcomed as guest by the Hausa king of Gobir. He later attacked, killed and took over his host's kingdom!!! Just as Boko Haram & Maitatsine tried to do in modern Nigeria. So, BH, Fulani herdsmen & Fulani 
jihad are leafs from the same tree.

2. They don't want you to know that the British deliberately rigged the Nigerian political system, using the constitutions of 1922 to 1960 to sow the seeds of rivalry & disunity & stop Nigeria from being truly independent.
3. They don't want you to find out how the Northern people's congress willfully disbanded the Action Group by pitting Akintola against Awo to weaken the opposition during the First Republic.

4. They don't want you to find out that the North was the first region to want secession in 1953 following the first motion for self rule in the parliament. Northern reps opposed this motion and were booed & derided by the Lagos media. Northern leaders threatened to pull out of Nigeria!!!

5. They don't want you to find out that the 1964 elections were so rigged by the NPC government and when Awo protested he was tried & jailed for "treasonable felony"

Tackling unitary features of Nigeria’s federal system

Written by Ladipo Adamolekun
Professor Ladipo Adamolekun writes from Iju, Akure North, Ondo State.
~Vanguard Nigeria. Monday, May 22, 2017. 

Tafawa Belewa

BETWEEN January 1966 and September 1999, the military politicians who ruled Nigeria for close to 30 years - from Aguiyi Ironsi to Abdusalami Abubakar - introduced unitary features that were inspired by their military culture but were inconsistent with the features of the negotiated federal system introduced in 1954.

It was in reference to this negotiated federal system that Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa made the following observation in 1957: "The federal system is, under the present conditions, the only basis on which Nigeria can remain united" . The extreme example of the military leaders' unitary mind-set was Aguiyi Ironsi's infamous "Unification" Decree of 1966 that precipitated the civil war.

Centralism and uniformity were the two directing principles of the unitary features that the military rulers foisted on the country. Two crucial illustrations relate to (a) the concentration of powers at the centre (reflected in the skewed allocation of functions between the central and sub-national governments in the 1979 and 1999 Constitutions) and (b) a distorted revenue allocation formula that assigns 52.68% to the federal government, 26.72% to state governments and 20.6% to the local governments. At a more subtle level, the centralist and uniform orientations of the military were progressively transmitted to many federal parastals. My favourite example is how the National Universities Commission, NUC, metamorphosed from being a buffer between the government and the universities during the pre-military era into an over-powerful and control-oriented government parastatal with very extensive powers used to dictate uniform policies to all the universities.


Of the country's four presidents since the return to civilian rule in 1999 - Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar'Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari - only Yar'Adua understood the dangers posed by the unitary features of the country's federal system. And he formally committed to initiating the abrogation of anti-federal laws, that is, laws that underpin the unitary features. ("I have also directed that all laws be examined that go against the federal system so that they will be amended to be in conformity with the federal system of government" ) – interview with London's Financial Times reported in various national newspapers, May 20/08). Concretely, he cancelled the contracts for building health centres in all 774 local government areas that his predecessor had unilaterally awarded without consulting state governments. Unfortunately, his presidency was short-lived because of sickness and death and his commitment to remove the unitary features of the country's federal system was abandoned by his successor.

Whilst the two former military rulers who have become presidents under the civilian dispensation - Obasanjo and Buhari – are unsurprisingly comfortable with the oxymoronic unitary federalism they had imposed on the country during their first coming, Jonathan's failure to follow in the footsteps of Yar'Ardua is evidence that not all civilian presidents would be anti-unitary federalism.

New names emerge for HIV/AIDS, prostitutes in Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba

Written by Modupe Seriboh
Sunday, April 16, 2017

A team of Nigerian linguists and medical experts have adopted new names for HIV, AIDS and prostitutes in Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba in order to reduce the scourge of stigmatisation.

A statement on Saturday by Prof. Herbert Igboanusi of the University of Ibadan, said the adoption was to eliminate stigmatisation and discrimination of persons living with HIV and AIDS.

He said that the study adopted the following names as more appropriate for the HIV/AIDS.

HIV in Igbo is Ori Nchekwa Ahu meaning something that fights or weakens the body immunity while AIDS is Mminwu, a condition that causes emaciation.

According to the statement the Yorùbá, appropriate term for HIV is Kòkòrò Apa Sójà Ara (KASA) meaning sickness that which kills the body immunity while AIDS is ààrùn ìs?d?`l? àj?sára a sickness that completely weakens body immune system.

In Hausa, HIV is now Karya garkuwa meaning that which weakens the body immune system while Kanjamau a sickness capable of emaciating one’s body has been chosen for AIDS.

Igboanusi said that the study was a two-year research titled “A metalanguage for HIV, AIDS and Ebola discourses in Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba” sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).

He called on speakers of the three languages to adhere to the use of these chosen terms in order to avoid confusing HIV with AIDS and consequently reduce their spread through behavioural change.

“It is the researchers’ belief that behavioural change is only possible when the people are familiar with the appropriate terminology for HIV and AIDS in their own languages.”

Similarly, the experts also adopted a new name for commercial sex worker in line with international practice.

“Since it is now more acceptable to refer to certain persons as “commercial sex workers” rather than “prostitutes”, we agreed that Nd? mkw??ghar? people who hang around for them in Igbo.

“Gbélé pawó, women who stay at home making money in Yoruba and Mata masu zaman kansu that is women who are living independently in Hausa.

THE IGBOS AND THE YORUBA 'COLD WAR'; A CASE FOR SOUTHERN UNITY.

By Charles Ogbu.
~FB 5th April, 2017

"Power is like a shadow. It resides exactly where men who are under its control think it resides"
The above is true with regards to the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment.
We think the Fulanis are the ones that have been holding power and because we think and believe so, it actually look so. Because of this assumed knowledge, we hand over our destinies, our future and those of our children to a people who are not above 11 million, have little or no education and contribute little or nothing to the national pulse.

What if I told you that the real power rests in the South and with southerners but that the mutual distrust and foolish superiority contest between Igbos and Yorubas is the biggest obstacle to wielding this power? This senseless feud between these two Southern giants is also the biggest enabler and promoter of the Fulani Oligarchy.

The southern part of Nigeria owns the oil which feeds the entire country. Without the oil today, there is no economy and there is no Nigeria. The same south controls the commercial sector of the economy. The media is still owned and controlled by the South.
When a people owns the only thing that is feeding a whole country and still control commerce plus the media through which people's thoughts and opinions about anything can be shaped and can equally boast of the best human resources, what else does it take for such a people to wield power in such a country?
Unity!
The few Fulanis who have been running this country directly and indirectly since independence, what do they have?
Unity!
When the fulani Oligarchs want to achieve an aim, they effortlessly find a way to get every northern minorities such as Christians and middle Belts on their side even when they almost always end up discarding these same minorities and even killing them once the aim is achieved.

Now, ask yourself: how have the Fulani Oligarchs managed to turn the entire Nigeria into an 'Animal Farm' with them as the only "Napoleon' despite their low education and the fact that all the prerequisites/bargaining chips for acquiring and wielding power are domiciled in the South??

Igbo-Yoruba 'cold war'! This, right here, is the answer.

The day the two biggest southern ethnic groups --The Igbos and The Yorubas --decide to put a stop to their needless bickering and channel all their energy towards confronting their common enemy --the children of Danfodio--, that is the day the Fulani Oligarchs will understand that even though the king is the one with the crown, he is nothing without the kingmakers and the people.
The Fulanis are not runing Nigeria because they are smarter than others. Far from it. They are messing with the destinies of over 180million people because the two Southern big brothers with the wherewithal to end their murderous reign of impunity are busy chasing rats while their houses are afire.

I am no historian neither do I pride myself as a man of letters but I know for a fact that the biggest weapon of the fulanis is neither guns nor bombs. Their biggest weapon is their ability to identify their opponents' weak points or even create one where none exists, magnify it and use same to create division amongst them just so they would effortlessly implement their Divide And Rule tactics.
Sadly, they have succeded in using this weapon against Southern Nigeria's two biggest ethnic groups.
Throughout history, all the wars and woes visited on both the Igbos and the Yorubas all came from the fulanis. There is no record of ethnic clash between these two humane southern Nations.
No time has these two people ever disagreed violently.

Strangely, the mutual suspicion that exist between these two great peoples seem far greater than the one they harbour against their common oppressor, the Scions of Danfodio.

Sardauna's Northern Nigeria: 58 years on Monday

From Agaju Madugba, Katsina
~The SUN Nigeria.  March 27, 2017. 

March 15, 2017, marked Northern Nigeria's 58 years of 'self-rule.' A year before Nigeria gained political independence, the then British colonial government had granted Northern Nigeria self-rule in 1959, which paved the way for the area to become part of an independent Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1960.

Some 57 years on, having produced a total of eight leaders for the country, including military heads of state, there are indications that the North has not made many significant development strides, beyond the efforts of its late Premier, the revered Sir Ahmadu Bello. In this report, Agaju Madugba x-rays current socio-economic and political developments in Northern Nigeria, against the backdrop of a certain level of progress recorded in other parts of the country within the same period.

Sarduana's Northern Nigeria
Several years after he was killed in Nigeria's first military putsch in 1966, Sir Ahmadu Bello has remained a household name in the North, as he continues to enjoy popularity, even in death. Successive northern leaders have dropped his name at the slightest opportunity and reeled out a long list of Sarduana's achievements and how he succeeded in weaving the divergent peoples of the North into what later came to be regarded as the homogenous North.


But the Sarduana's Northern Nigeria of today may have lost the homogenous tag. Apart from the exigencies of the times, leading to the balkanisation of the area into the current 19 states, the North has since acquired an inglorious reputation for being one of the most backward areas in the world, in terms of general human development. Northern Nigeria has also turned to a safe haven for criminals hiding under the garb of religion.

Aside from the latest Boko Haram phenomenon, various other groups had in the past rendered the North virtually inhabitable, further depleting investment and economic opportunities for the area. From Benue to Plateau to Kaduna, Nasarawa and Taraba states, the activities of 'unidentified gunmen' have continued to have devastative impact on the communities. There were also the Maitatsine riots in Kano, the Zangon-Kataf crisis in Kaduna, the Tiv/Jukun clashes in Taraba, Birom/Hausa Fulani fights in Plateau, the post-presidential election riots in 2011, the Miss World riots in Kaduna, ethno-religious and communal violence in Kaduna, Nasarawa and Benue states, youth brigandage in Okene, Kogi State. Indeed, the list is endless.

Separarists, militants and 'iyalaya' anybody!

Written by Lekan Sote

~The Punch Nigeria. Wednesday, August 10, 2016.

Prof Biodun Jeifo brought "igilangogeesi," Yoruba onomatopoeia for grandiloquence, to academic discourse. Prof Pius Adesanmi dredged the "iyalaya anybody" lingo from the most uncouth aspects of the underbelly of the Lagos streets to make a brilliant submission to a distinguished audience of actors, professionals, and corporate types.

To the Yoruba, "iyalaya" means grandmother, granddame, matriarch, or female ancestor. When conjoined with the indefinite pronoun, "anybody," "iyalaya" is more than just a modifier. Both words together express scant regard for the opinion of significant or insignificant others.

The rhetoric of Nigeria's separatists, militants, and insurgents, are very hardline indeed. The separatist Indigenous (some say, Igbo) People of Biafra, and Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, militant Niger Delta Avengers, and insurgent Boko Haram, are at their most blatant in-your-face as they openly challenge the Nigerian state.

They are gung ho in their quests to exit Nigeria, put no store to the opinion of "iyalaya anybody," and are not remiss in proclaiming it from the rooftops. IPOB, for instance, has little regard for the sensibilities of the older Igbo generation, some of whom have suggested the more moderate path of political restructuring of Nigeria.

Membership of IPOB is said to be largely from the age bracket of Generation X, iGen, and the Millennial, who some say, hardly know the horrors of the Nigerian Civil War. They are prepared to achieve their goals by violence, and probably think that pacifist MASSOB, from where they broke away, is sissy, and the moderate Ohanaeze Ndigbo, pliant.

Without being asked, IPOB admits to running a pirate protest radio station named after Radio Biafra of the Republic of Biafra. The language of this radio station is decidedly strident, graphic, even swashbuckling. It has no qualms in sending vitriolic words to Nigerians, their President, and any Igbo who does not seem to share the vision or enthusiasm for separatist Biafra.

What is the North afraid of?

Written by Muyiwa Adetiba
~Vanguard Nigeria. Sunday, July 17, 2016

Ihave to be careful how I tell the following stories; not because they are not true, but because I do not want the personalities involved to identify themselves or be identified by those who are familiar with any of the stories. At the same time, I do not want to distort the stories to such an extent that their veracity, which is the core of my message, is lost.One of the stories involves two friends who pulled out of an agency to set up their own enterprise. The two had different personalities which led them to have different social lives but seemed to complement each other in business. They both brought different sets of skills to the enterprise in any case.

One was out going and made friends very easily. He was the one likely to be invited to parties. He was also the one likely to bring girls to the office or close early to go on 'business dates'. The other chap was an introvert who was likely to go home straight after work or go to church. He was also the one who stayed at the office balancing the books and doing the general administrative work that ensured that the enterprise was run profitably.

Sometimes, this meant he had to be firm in cutting the financial excesses of his partner. The extrovert was a natural marketer who not only brought jobs in regularly but kept the clients happy and made sure payments were made promptly. He also made the office environment lively whenever he was around. In ten years, the business had boomed. They had two cars each in addition to a pool car. They had also moved into their own houses. It seemed a perfect arrangement to outsiders. One brought jobs in, the other ran the office. Together, they executed the jobs.

Unfortunately, the introvert was getting increasingly irritated by the carefree lifestyle of the extrovert. At a point, he felt he had had enough and wanted out. The partner begged. Those of us who knew the two well begged. The extrovert said he didn't want to break up what he built with his hands. But the introvert was adamant. In the end, the extrovert walked out without taking a pin from the office. But he went out with more than his suitcase. He went with the goodwill of the company. He went with the soul of the enterprise. It wasn't long before the clients found him. Too late, the introvert found that the jobs had stopped coming and there was precious little left to run or administer.

Fulani herdsmen: Nimbo massacre: I recorded killing to show my people our success -Suspect

Topics:

• Nimbo massacre: I recorded killing to show my people our success -Suspect
• Enugu/Herdsmen Attack: Facts emerge on how mercenaries attacked Nimbo
• Fulani herdsmen: Farmers amass arms to combat killings
• Herdsmen, actions and consequences
• No one can stop us from grazing in the south - Fulani herdsmen
• This could lead to war
• Enugu attack: Buhari orders crackdown on rampaging herdsmen
• 20 People killed as Fulani herdsmen invade Enugu community
• ENUGU MASSACRE: Northern govs under fire… for defending Fulani
• Nigerians say "NO" to National Grazing Reserves Bill
• Our story, by Baba Othman Ngelzarma, National Secretary, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, otherwise known as Fulani herdsmen
• The herdsmen narrative
• Fulani gunmen attack Kaduna village, kill monarch, nephew

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Nimbo massacre: I recorded killing to show my people our success -Suspect
Written by Kunle Falayi

Some chilling details have emerged on the April 25 massacre of residents of Nimbo community in Enugu State by Fulani herdmen following the arrest of a 24-year-old suspect, Mohammadu Zurai, by the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team.

Zurai, who was arrested alongside four other suspects - Ciroma Musa (3), Sale Adamu (33), Suleiman Laute (43) and Haruna Laute (24) - told the police that at least 100 Fulani herdsmen from seven states took part in the massacre.

According to the suspect, Fulani leaders rearing cows in Taraba, Kogi, Benue, Nasarawa, Katsina, Niger and Kaduna States contributed representatives to take part in the attack.

Zurai, a Fulani herdsman living in Kogi State, said he was born in Enugu State even though his family are from Garba Shehu town in Taraba State.

His statement revealed that prior to the attack, kolanuts were shared among Fulani leaders in the seven states earlier identified, urging them to support the attack.

According to Zurai, the attack came because of the killing of six Fulani herdsmen in the community in the past without repercussion.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that the leader later sent representatives who took part in the attack.

Two days before the attack (April 23), a meeting where the plans were perfected was held in Ameke town, Kogi State.

The police had revealed that a video recording of the killing was recovered from Zurai.

Zurai said, "After we attacked the town through the bush, I saw a man who had just been slaughtered on the ground. I brought out my phone and recorded the scene.

"I asked the dead man, 'Your people had confidence to kill Fulani people but now you are dead. Don't you know that Fulani owns Nigeria?' I recorded the video to show my relatives in Kogi where I live how successful the operation was. As we moved around Nimbo, I saw an Igbo man who used to give me food anytime I was in the state. I warned him to quickly leave town to avoid being killed."

Zurai said he was invited to take part in the killing by one Buba. He identified leaders who participated in the killing as Alhaji Suddi, Alhaji Kuriya, Alhaji Dula and Ardo Dula (living in Enugu State).


Others he identified are Mallam Adamu , Alhaji Chiroma, Adamu Sarka, Alhaji Botdo, Alhaji Iro Kogi and Alhaji Fanya (from Kogi State).
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Enugu/Herdsmen Attack: Facts emerge on how mercenaries attacked Nimbo

Written by Emeka Mamah

~Vanguard, Nigeria. Wednesday, May 18, 2016.

ENUGU-Fresh factshave emerged that herdsmen did not carry out the attack on the people of Nimbo community in Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State themselves; they reportedly hired mercenaries to do it for them.

Some security officers, who spoke to newsmen in the area yesterday, said that three of the mercenaries drowned in River Niger while trying to flee the scene of the crime.

This was even as the Special Investigation Team set up by the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase, have "interviewed" the traditional ruler of Nimbo, Igwe John Akor, for about two hours at the police headquarters in Enugu over the issue.

The Caliphate, The Emir and Nigeria's Master Race

~The SUN, Nigeria.

"Do not call a conspiracy what these people call a conspiracy, neither fear ye their fear but sanctify the Lord your God in your heart and Let Him be your only fear"- ISAIAH 8:12

In an essay titled ''Afenifere: A Syllabus Of Errors'' which was written in 1998 and published in Gamji.com, Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi wrote the following.

"Anyone who needs a lesson in how not to be a politician, and how never to win power in Nigeria should study Yoruba politicians.

The Caliphate, The Emir and Nigeria's Master Race

Unless the Yoruba masses disown Afenifere, this group of degree-bearing political illiterates will lead Yoruba land down its own version of a syllabus of errors, an island unto themselves, hallucinating in their own idiocy and content to remain marginalised citizens in their own country while blaming the north for their self - inflicted woes.

The syllabus of errors remains a black spot in the history of the Catholic Church. Afenifere will be an even blacker spot in the political history of the Yoruba.

Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi's pedigree speaks mountains of what his political stance would be ab initio. He probably believes, like other Fulani politicians, that the problems of this country have a lot to do with the shift in power away from the Fulani to individuals like Babangida and Abacha, products of " lower cultures".

The Fulani of the North, proud of the history of the Caliphate, remain proud of the roles played by Fulani leaders of the political and military establishment in Nigeria- Ahmadu Bello, Murtala Mohammed, Aminu Kano, Shehu Yar'Adua, Shehu Shagari, Jubril Aminu.

They are sad that other Nigerians do not know the difference in ethnic background between say, Murtala Mohammed and Ibrahim Babangida. They do not understand how a man like Abacha, born to a cigarette seller in Fagge quarters of Kano (and this speaks mountains of him, how he ruled and how he died) can be taken as the quintessential representative of the Caliphate whose head he disgraced and whose culture and values he sought to erode.

So, Shinkafi probably believes in the need for a power-shift: Back to the Fulani. He may not be alone in this tendency. Politicians like Mahmud Waziri, Bamanga Tukur, Jubril Aminu, even M. D. Yusufu may consciously or unconsciously have similar views.

To the Fulani, there is nothing like ceding the presidency or power. "If you want it, you work for it…If you lack the stomach to dig in and fight, too bad for you. Southern politicians have always failed to understand the complexity of the North and its politics".

These are interesting words from an interesting Fulani man. The disdain and sheer contempt that Emir Sanusi harbors for non-Fulanis and southerners and for Afenifere and the Yoruba people in particular remains intact till today. His assertion that ''southern politicians have always failed to understand the complexity of the north'' is false.

Despite the fact that we southerners understand the nature of core northern politicians and leaders very well we have always chosen to hold our peace, condone their excesses, carry their baggage and accept their strange ways and complicated peculiarities in the name of national unity.

MASSOB rebrands as Arewa youths sue for peace

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• MASSOB rebrands as Arewa youths sue for peace
• I remain MASSOB leader -Uwazuruike

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MASSOB rebrands as Arewa youths sue for peace

~TheGuardian, Nigeria.

CITING the need to consolidate as it transits from one level to another in the course of its struggle, the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has rebranded to Biafra Independent Movement (BIM).

Also, a group from Okigwe zone, led by Samuel Ogubuike, at the weekend, pledged allegiance for Ralph Uwazurike, saying the Uche Madu group was allegedly expelled in 2014 for adopting violent approach to their struggle.

Rising from a crucial meeting yesterday in Owerri, Uwazurike, accompanied by a member and known lawyer, Uche Okwukwu, named Chief Edwin Ileagu, from the Enugu West zone of the group, as new leader of BIM, adding that he would lead for two weeks, at first instance, adding that in the new movement, everybody was regarded as a leader on a rotational basis.

Emir of Kano throws more light in marginalisation of Ndigbo and Biafra -|- Easy, my brother, the Biafran

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• Emir of Kano throws more light in marginalisation of Ndigbo and Biafra.
• Easy, my brother, the Biafran

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Emir of Kano throws more light in marginalisation of Ndigbo and Biafra.

From Chimazuru Oblong Nnadi 

The Paramount King of Kano, Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II, wrote-

"The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. 

Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country.

Having said that, this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness. They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity.