Trending OPINION: The Southeast Igbo Did Not Kill Ahmadu Bello By SKC Ogbonnia

By SKC Ogbonnia
The recent quit notice issued by the Arewa Youths to the Igbo (or rather the “South-Easterners”) residing in Northern Nigeria has provoked peppering opinions. But there is a cogent reason to take it easy on the innocent youths. They are plainly the victims of gross distortion of national history that began during the civil war but is today causing more harm than any good intended.

First and foremost, the provocative quit notice would not have come to pass if the Arewa youths had any clue that the South-South zone, the thin thread that currently holds Nigeria together, boasts of many parts of Igboland, including such big cities as Asaba and Port-Harcourt (formerly Iguocha). The gullible youths were basically acting the script of the government of the day that is crudely attempting to re-write the history to decree the Igbo nation merely as the “landlocked” Southeast political zone—as if the Hausa-Fulani people are limited to the

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, said former President Goodluck Jonathan was not weak or incompetent

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has insisted that former President Goodluck Jonathan was not weak or incompetent.


He was reacting to statements credited to the leader of the Indigenous People of

A Voice From The Grave By Femi Fani-Kayode

Read the full opinion here:  “All of us who do not speak the Hausa language in which Buhari allegedly addressed Nigerians are being told one thing: you do not belong here. Can anyone ever come up with a more powerful rationale for secession?”- Kayode Samuel. Can anyone fault Samuel’s thinking and rationale?

Two days ago I wrote an essay titled “Is Nigeria A Free Nation Or A Vassal State?” which raised some fundamental questions about the nature and composition of the contraption called Nigeria.
It was a well-researched contribution and I would urge all those that have not read it to

OPinion, Ndigbo In Nigeria: History Is My Witness | By Joe Igbokwe

Few days ago a friend, Patriot and a committed Nigerian, Emmanuel Majebi reminded me of the tragedy of looking the way and keeping quiet by men who should know better in times of crisis. He reminded me of the calamity that will befall a society or nation when real men choose to be neutral in times of great moral crisis. He reminded me that evil triumph in every society when good and thinking men do nothing. Hear Emmanuel: “The story is usually told of how Years after the devastation of Germany in WW2 … There was a meeting of German Egg Heads … And the question was how did it come to past that a nation that produced Great Thinkers like Friederich Niettzshe.. Karl Max …Albert Einstein….Bruno Bauer. Friederich Engels… Etc ..etc…get seized and

Biafra Trends as Fayose speaks on Osinbajo, Nnamdi Kanu, quit notice to Igbos

It is reported that the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has hailed Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, for his recent intervention in response to the quit notice to Igbos by Arewa youths.

He condemned the ultimatum and urged government to be on its toes to avoid being caught unawares.

Fayose also called for dialogue with the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu to douse the growing ethnic-based tensions in the country.

“As much as secession is not an option, the handlers of our democracy must be equitable, fair and just to everyone”, he said in a chat with newsmen yesterday.

“The Igbo have continued to suffer because of the perceived role of

Femi Fani-Kayode: Nigeria – free nation or conquered vassal state?

Read Opinion from Femi Fani-Kayode: “I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”- Harriet Tubman

How can anyone describe Nigeria as a free nation when Sheik Othman Dan Fodio, the hero of the core Muslim north, the father of the Fulani Caliphate and the first Mahdi of Nigeria once said,

“Allah has bestowed on me and my people the historic duty to spread the holy faith of the Prophet throughout the Caliphate and convert these pagans. 

If they refuse to accept Allah and his Prophet we will wash the earth, the forests, the mountains, the rivers and the streams with their pagan blood. Ours is a holy and righteous calling. We are doing the work of Allah”.

How can anyone describe Nigeria as a free nation when Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Saurdana of Sokoto, the Premier of the Northern Region and the second Mahdi of Nigeria once said,

“The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the

Biafrans, Hear The Voices Of Reason And Wisdom – Dele Momodu

Fellow Nigerians, I’m sure you’ll agree with me that this is a season of acute paranoia and schizophrenia in our dear beloved country. But we must not give up. We have more to gain in an atmosphere of peace and unity and more to lose in a condition of war and lawlessness.
The past few weeks have brought out the bitterness and abject bigotry in some of us. I once read somewhere that “anger beclouds reasoning.” Seriously, nothing could be truer.

 I’m happy that a few bold and courageous Nigerians have risen up to the occasion in an effort to avert the cataclysmic fall and demise of the great country called Nigeria. Some great writings have since emerged from Nigerians and friends of Nigeria in

See How Fani-Kayode Reacts To Osinbajo’s Threat To Jail Biafra Agitators

As shared by former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode

Read as he shared: A man called Nnamdi Kanu and his movement called the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) single-handedly brings the whole of the south-east of our country to a standstill with his one day “stay at home order” and someone in the Presidency says they don’t consider him to be a leader of thought? Clearly the Villa curse has set in.

Delusion is a terrible affliction and treating those that have won the hearts and minds of millions of Igbo youth in our country with contempt and disdain will prove to be

See How Uche Ogbodo Seeks Opinion Online

 

Here is Nollywood actress, Uche Ogbodo, as she took to her Instagram to share a screenshot of marriage proposal received from one of her male fans vis DM.
The mother of one, who got divorced to her husband after a few months of their union, asked what she should do.

The unnamed man said in

OPINION, Reuben Abati: Democracy, Biafra and a sense of history

READ LATEST OPINION AS It is sad that many Nigerians today talk glibly about the possibility of a coup or of military intervention in politics. They make it seem as if this democracy is something we can exchange for something else. We need to be reminded, as we celebrate democracy day 2017, how we got to this very moment, and how precious democracy is to us as a sovereign people. From 1966 to 1999 (with the short break of civilian rule from 1979 – 1983) the military dominated the political landscape in Nigeria. It was eighteen years ago yesterday when our country returned to civilian rule.

The military practically overstayed their welcome. The first military coup in Nigeria was in January 1966, followed by the counter-coup of July 1966, and then the civil war of 1967-70 which turned Nigeria into a military theatre more or less as the Federal forces

Read Open Letter to Aisha Yesufu, woman who called on Buhari to resign over his Health

By Lauretta Onochie, social media aide to President Muhammadu Buhari:

Dear Aisha Yesufu,
I do hope you are feeling a bit better than you did at the point you had a meltdown or better still, a recorded video nervous breakdown, over a government Nigerians say is serving them better.

Most Nigerians were shocked and are still confused at your tantrum.

Nigerians understood and identified with your frustration at not being able to get the

Jonathan's Ex-aide, Reuben Abati Writes

President Buhari

 

OPINION: The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s strategists, if they are at work at all, are chasing ants and ignoring the elephant in the room. They do him great disservice. Their oversight is hubristically determined either by incapacity or a vendetta-induced distraction. It is time they changed the game and the narrative; time they woke up.

 

Research disclose that it’s been more than 15 months since the incumbent assumed office as President, but his handlers have been projecting him as if he

Fuel scarcity, power crisis: Deregulation and the social goods theory

Latest report as after inheriting a colossal mess from all the previous administrations combined, it is fair to say that this 10-month old administration is facing enormous challenges under mitigating circumstances. I do not envy the burden it continues to bear because for decades, we have grappled with challenges in virtually all the critical segments of our economy. Everything from education to healthcare provision and infrastructure development has been a grapple. Perhaps, the mother of all challenges has been the persistent fuel scarcity and erratic power supply currently plighting the nation. Nigerians have simply grown tired of having to queue for long hours to fuel their cars because it is counter-intuitive and counter-productive.  In developed countries, the

The State of the Nigerian Economy and Solution

The immediate past Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, yesterday bared his mind on the state of the Nigerian economy, giving reasons why the country is underdeveloped.



The Emir of Kano who spoke while inaugurating the remodeled secretariat of the Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA), at the Kaduna International Trade Fair Complex said, the major problem of the country was that it imports what it has and exports what it does not have.

The Emir said, it is unfortunate that Nigeria has crude oil but imports refined petroleum products for its consumption, as well as it has gas but could not generate electricity from it, except to import generator.

According to the Emir, “I have always said it, the problem of this country is that, we are in a country where we import what we have and we export what we don’t have. It is only in Nigeria we do that. We have cotton, but we will not process it to make cloth, except we go to China to buy clothes. We have crude oil, but you cannot go to filling station and get fuel refined in Nigeria, except we take our crude to England and go there to buy refined products. We have refinery here in Kaduna, but the fuel you will buy is not refined here.

“We have gas in Nigeria, but we are always burning it, it is flaring into the air. Instead of us to generate electricity with it, we rather go abroad to import generator to get power and we have gas that can generate electricity for us, we have coal and we have water to generate electricity.”

He added, “From time immemorial, tie and dye used to be one of the major businesses of Kano people, but now, it is Chinese that bring dyed clothes for us to buy. Kano people now select design for Chinese to go back to China and bring finished product back to them,” he lamented.

He, however, said there is no way Nigeria will move forward or develop, except the country corrects all the anomalies highlighted.

“This correction is not something difficult, since God has blessed us with what to do. We have tomatoes, we have cotton, we have gas, we have crude oil. From any day Nigerian refineries begin to solely refine our petroleum products, from the day we produce plastics from our petrol-chemical companies, from the day, we begin to generate our electricity from gas and produce fertiliser, we produce our clothes from our cotton, Nigeria will develop.

“The textile industry use to employ over 600,000 people, but now, it will be difficult to get 30,000 people under textile industry employment. Here in Kaduna industrial estate, both Muslims and Christians were working and their children living and playing together, but the moment the factories closed down and workers disengaged, the children who used to play together started seeing themselves as Muslims and Christians and started killing themselves during crisis.

“All the crises experienced in Nigeria, including the current Boko Haram insurgency were caused by the death of the Nigerian economy,” he explained.

Emir Sanusi however argued that the way out of the nation’s economic woes is to support government by not patronising products smuggled into the country, saying such goods were responsible for the collapse of the nation’s industry.

On the hardship currently experienced in the country, the Emir said the Buhari government deserves commendation, for the fact that, despite the economic situation, workers were not retrenched or their salaries cut.

Earlier, the President of KADCCIMA, Abdul Alimi, said the Emir of Kano assisted the chamber greatly when he was the CBN Governor, especially towards the success of the KADCCIMA secretariat project.

Mr. Trump and Islam - by Femi Fani-Kayode

Femi Fani-Kayode

News  as American politics and politicians fascinate me in the same way that their history does.

 

From the days of their great men of faith and vision like the Pilgrim Fathers, the Founding Fathers and the Patriots right through to the times of deeply courageous men who were blessed with powerful intellects and huge moral suasion like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin, this has indeed been a blessed land with

Read From Femi Fani-Kayode: The sons of Futa Jalon (Part 2)

OPINION - On October 2nd 2014, Alhaji Aliyu Gwarzo, a prominent Fulani leader from Kano, said the following words to Pointblanknews Magazine. He said, “when I say that the Presidency must come to the north next year I am referring to the Hausa-Fulani core north and not any northern Christian or Muslim minority tribe.

The Christians in the north such as the Berom, the Tiv, the Kataf, the Jaba, the Zuru, the Sayyawa, the Bachama, the Jukun, the Idoma and all the others are nothing and the muslim minorities in the north, including the Kanuri, the Nupe, the Igbira, the Babur, the Shuwa Arabs, the

Priest, Politician or Renegade? - by Reuben Abati

 

Ejike Mbaka

 

Catholic priests in Nigeria have always captured the public imagination, some of them have served in government positions, some were prominent in the fight and struggle for democracy, some of them have proved their mettle as poets, teachers, musicians, social critics, and public affairs commentators, but Rev. Fr. Ejike Camillus Anthony Ebenezer Mbaka is a cut above the rest, not necessarily in terms of intellect or persona, but in terms of how he has been able to use the pulpit to acquire a rock star status.

 

It is therefore not surprising that everything about him is with a touch of the histrionic. This is exactly what happened when he was transferred, last week, from a parish where he had served for 20 years: from Christ the King Parish, GRA Enugu, to Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Umuchigbo, Njinike, Enugu. Characteristically, this radical priest and social activist turned what should be a routine administrative posting by his Bishop into a melodrama and an assault on the authority of the Church. You would think he had been sentenced to a jail term, the way he whined and wept and appealed to sympathy.

 

“I’m going to suffer because I have no place to put my head. I am going to suffer because I have no place to keep the Adoration Ministry’s assets…The Adoration Ministry is passing through suffering right now even though I’ve accepted that it is the will of God. Is the

Why Poverty Rate Increased in Nigeria — Lai Mohammed

Trending news reaching us has it that the Federal Government has said that no amount of blackmail will make it to surrender the ongoing war against corruption.

This is even as it said that Nigeria poverty rate has increased by the same proportion with annual budget since 1999 because the appropriated funds have mostly ended up in the pockets of few looters.



The Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed stated this on

Where Is Former President, Goodluck Jonathan? Dele Momodu

Where Is Former President, Goodluck Jonathan? Dele Momodu
Fellow Nigerians, I’m surprised that no one has asked about the wellbeing, welfare and whereabouts of our dear former President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan. Are we so wicked and uncaring that we have forgotten the gentleman who brought us fresh air so soon? Do we truly suffer from “collective amnesia” (apologies Wole Soyinka) that no

Jan. 15th 1966: A Night of Blood & Slaughter by Femi Fani-Kayode

  OPINION- This has it that on the night of January 15th 1966 a coup d’etat took place in Nigeria which resulted in the murder of a number of leading political figures and senior army officers. This was the first coup in the history of our country and 98 per cent of the officers that planned and led it were Igbo. From the political class those that were killed included the following: Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Prime Minister, who was abducted from his home and whose body was dumped somewhere along the Lagos-Abeokuta road.

Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the old Northern Region, who was killed in the sanctity of his own home together with his wife, his driver and his security assistant. Chief S.L. Akintola, the Premier of the old Western Region, who was gunned down in the