Question dey title

The post-independence Nigerian government.

The Biafran war of Independence.

http://dailypost.ng/2017/10/24/suspected-fulani-herdsmen-kidnap-80-year-old-retired-police-officer-wife-edo/


Reports reaching DAILY POST says suspected Fulani herdsmen have kidnapped an 80-year old retired Superintendent of Police and former Divisional Police Officer, Chief James Omafuaire.

He was abducted alongside his Wife, Mrs. Victoria and a customer at his Ikpedhi Quarry Site in Auchi,Edo State.


Chief James Omafuaire is an elder brother to Vanguard Newspaper Senior Photo-Journalist, Akpokona Omafuaire in Warri.

The Octogenarian’s daughter, Christy Omafuaire Atie confirmed the report.

” My father was supervising his workers at his quarry site in Ikpeshi near Auchi when the Fulani herdsmen with guns kidnapped him, his wife and a customer.

“They collected N200,000 from the customer and released his wife but they took both of them inside the bush.


“They have not contacted us. We call on the Edo State Governor to do everything to release my father. We beg the kidnappers to release him unhurt” she pleaded.

aribisala0:
Herdsmen are often not cattle owners they are workers like labourers on a cassava farm in Delta or Ebonyi.Maybe even better off. Many are militant
What is to pity

If they na cattle herders then they na herdsmen

Chiedu4Trump:
This Fulani Herdsmen things is a deliberate rouse to force the south to give them land that will serve as a launching pad for jihad.

we need to resist this before its too late.

Abeg think with your brain, Fulani na organised group, they are millions, they come & go, this na dey conspiracy here

they are not like boko haram, even though they do more damage than bokoharam

Abeg read carefully: https://ctc.usma.edu/posts/the-fulani-crisis-communal-violence-and-radicalization-in-the-sahel

UmarIbnShittu:
Which one b Abraham again now

Abrahamic god = god of the abrahamic religions, i.e. judaism, islam, christianity, etc.

You could also say the Semitic god since they all originate from earlier Semitic religions.

UmarIbnShittu:
yours the three gods

The trinity is not three different gods. It is the one Abrahamic god in three forms.

Disgusting rat. Typical Nigerians worshipping the affluent, vile and mindless.

The kaabah isn't even Muslim. It was a pagan Arab religious monument. Muslims just stole it.

naijalo:
You people did not go to school to know that

wetin?

bump

http://punchng.com/strange-elements-have-infiltrated-fulani-herdsmen-in-plateau-dariye/

INTERVIEW
Strange elements have infiltrated Fulani herdsmen in Plateau – Dariye
Published October 22, 2017
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Joshua Dariye
A former governor of Plateau State, who is the current lawmaker representing Plateau Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Joshua Dariye, in this interview with SUNDAY ABORISADE, speaks on the current crisis in the state among other issues

What is your reaction to the bloody attacks on the people of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State by some Fulani herdsmen?

I gathered that it started from a disagreement over a farmland and the poor handling of the situation made it to degenerate, leading to series of reprisals. Two wrongs do not make a right. We must work for a ceasefire; the killings must stop. We are all Nigerians irrespective of our religion. I am happy that the government and the security agencies have swung into action in order to ensure a restoration of peace in the area.

The residents are saying the continuous massacre was as a result of the herdsmen’s refusal to observe the curfew imposed on the area.

I do not have details of the crisis but I know there are lots of rumours. I will be glad if journalists could carry out a thorough investigation into the crisis in the council area and publish what is actually happening based on their findings. The reporters will be able to report what they gathered from the residents, the herdsmen, and the military and give us a balanced report. We cannot continue to rely on rumours.

Only investigative journalism can actually throw more lights on the situation in Bassa I cannot stay in Abuja and start talking about an issue that I don’t have sufficient information on.

But the residents are insisting that the army and other security agencies sent to the area were not neutral.

That is part of what a thorough investigative journalism will uncover. The reporter will confront the Commander of the Army operation in the area, the Commissioner of Police in the state and the State Director of the Department of State Services with what the people are saying and demand to know what is happening since they are supposed to maintain a neutral position. However, I don’t think a responsible security organisation will choose to play a partisan role in a situation like this.

What steps are the leaders of the state, including you, taking on the issue?

The governor has told me that he would convene a stakeholders’ forum where the community leaders and the leaders of the Fulani herdsmen will be engaged in a dialogue and once the meeting agrees to a ceasefire, the issue of reprisals will stop and we would move forward.

Don’t you think that the absence of the anti-grazing bill is a major cause of the clashes?

That is not true. We never had that as a challenge. The issue of grazing bill is a new phenomenon. Farmers and the Fulani have always existed side by side. The Fulani know where to take their cattle to for grazing and areas where they should not go. Even when cow strayed and destroy farmlands, there are mechanisms on the ground on how to resolve it without involving the police. I think the problem is that some strange elements had infiltrated the camps of the Fulani. We don’t know where they are coming from. If anybody comes newly into a community, there should be a proper documentation on him so that they will co-exist with the people they meet on the ground peacefully.

The farmers are now afraid to go to farms. Won’t the situation affect food security?

The governor has a big role to play in this matter in order to ensure that everybody is safe either on the farm or in the town. The governor is on the ground; he is in a better position to restore normalcy. He should insist that enough is enough. There is apprehension, so, the governor should do everything he can to initiate a meaningful dialogue without further delay. If the fighting continues, the farmers won’t be able to go to the farm and the herdsmen won’t be able to move their cattle around for grazing.

What are the current challenges that you are facing in your constituency?

One big challenge is youth unemployment. We have an army of unemployed youths in my constituency. I am currently looking for every available opportunity to engage them either in the public or private sector. The Senate is currently working on a bill sponsored by Senator Abiodun Olujimi on the need for all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of government to advertise vacancies. The idea of silent recruitment is counter-productive and against the Federal Character. Heads of MDAs are just employing their cousins, their in-laws, boyfriends and girlfriends into the system. If there are 200 vacancies and they make it competitive, every part of the country will compete for it. What leads to lopsidedness in employment is when people within the system try to tinker with the process. People in my constituency see knowledge as something precious. We have many higher institutions producing graduates every year in hundreds and they are looking for jobs. It is our responsibility as leaders to assist them. I have attracted about N1.5bn road project to my constituency. When the project is executed, the people of Plateau, Bauchi, Gombe, and Nasarawa will benefit. My people believe that as a former governor, I should perform magic but we have limitations.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked the Federal Government to recover all pensions so far collected by former governors who are currently collecting salaries as public office holders. What is your reaction to this?

People are just raising ‘a hue and cry’ over nothing really. If somebody retires from the Army and his people said he should go and represent them in an elective office, are you saying he should abandon his pension? I served as governor of Plateau State and they said I am entitled to a pension of N600,000 per month that is if the money is there anyway. It is part of the condition of service. People who retired from the civil service, who are now National Assembly members, have not been asked to stop collecting pensions just because they have been elected into public offices. If they (civil servants) are not going to refund their pensions and gratuities, why should we ask the governors to refund their own? There are several areas of wastes that people are not even looking at.

Mention some of the areas

Inadequate funding of the annual budget is one of them. When budgets are not adequately funded, it leads to abandoned projects all over the place.

Did you owe salaries when you served as governor?

Of course I did. Let me give the background. My state was in the opposition between 1979 and 1983; we were not in the National Party of Nigeria. As of that time, the state government had the challenge of paying salaries and executing projects; so, they started taking both external and domestic loans to finance projects in the state, which also included the current Nasarawa State.

When I became governor in 1999, my first subvention was N170m because the Federal Government was deducting N700m from my allocation every month to pay back the accumulated loans taken by successive governments over the years. So, I decided to borrow too in order to meet my obligations to the people. At a point, we borrowed up to N3bn. The civil servants embarked on strike 13 times because we couldn’t pay salaries due to the shortfall in revenue. It was not deliberate, it wasn’t that I don’t want to pay salaries but we were financially handicapped. We resolved the issue when I started inviting the labour union leaders to have access to the accounts of the state whenever we received the monthly subventions from Abuja. I also ensured that salaries took first line charge. I preferred to borrow in order to finance projects. That is how we stopped the incessant strikes. Consequently, it was later discovered that we exceeded the payment by N10bn. You can imagine what I would have done for my people with the money if it was not deducted from our monthly subventions.

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As long as the Afonja Imperium keep making deals with the muslim north, Nigeria will continue to islamise - una day dem Muslims will be majority and there will be no room for dissent, such is nature of Islam

Lordave:
We are better of this way without him.

If he had vigorously campaigned for restructuring rather than secession and ethnic antagonism, I would have made sure I attended every rally he held in that regard. But onwu na egbu nwa nkita anaghi ekwe ya ñuru isi nsi.

I don't wish him death, though I hope he comes back refined.

structure dey set, you na change it with ballet polls, not in ₦aija

legitnow:
IPOB is going nowhere.

b4 people said Biafra is a pipedream, its over, bend over, give up and have your oil and ass drilled by the afonja police state

but we have international eye on us, we dey flag raised in every SE province, we dey stronger than ever

Biafra will be free, it is fate

www.nairaland.com/attachments/6142061_naijaxposed_jpegd826912b667b7a9ae4e9c56599745f8c

Afonjas mad cause their empire is crumblin, us gon be free, while the herdsmen n muslims descend upon the rest of the afonjas like dem dey swarm of locusts! POETIC JUSTICE!

The afonja scream and cry with every passing day knowing that the WORLD is taking heed of BIAFRANS and their struggle


the afonja empire shall crumble! LONG LIVE BIAFRA!

He

nigeria na dey nigeria, but the Afonja Empire

the afonja empire act like it doesnt care but dem dey don send pythons to bite an bully the proud cause they scared of losing dat precious oil

BIAFRA FOREVER

Here come the afonjas and the slaves of ishmael




Abeg Afonja Begone!

AntiWailer:
Not worth listening too.


Who cares about kanu's where about.

His chest beating brothers will soon forget him and go about their business as long as there is dollars to import from China

An idea cannot be destroyed

biafra na die never, as long as dem dey Igbo, Biafra dey strong

KingEbukasBlog:


'God' means different things to different people . To some its the creator of the universe(mostly monotheism) , to some its both the creator of the universe and the universe itself (Panentheism) and to some its the universe (pantheism)

The belief that there is a Supreme God and other gods is henotheism . As a Christian , you are expected to be henotheist just like the Jews who acknowledge the existence of the Supreme God and other gods like Molech , Baal and the gods of their captivators since the devil according to the bible is the god of this world .

So in henotheism , you can deify the creator of the universe and other entities - but this depends on your perspective . As a monotheist , you can only identify with just one deity .

abeg where I ask what xtians n muslims r expected to believe? identify this identify that, how bout identify on why god real or na?

so much detail in no brain mystic poo, if god na creator of the universe, n god dey universe, why it b call god? typical deist - you dey master of equivocal tongue but no more n that

UmarIbnShittu:

“A’oodhu bilLahil-‘adheem wa bi wajhil-kareemi wa bi sultaanihil-qadeemi min ash-Shaytaani-rajeem”‎

[I seek refuge with Allah the Mighty, with His Noble Face and with His Eternal Authority from Shaytaan, the Accursed]‎.


Dey suppose write viewer for this topic nah
Bros na ur pikin b dat for dat gif?

wetin be your mission? confusion? na play an give answer

wen dese deists stuk betwixt past n present gonna just realise god na real!? gotta spread confusion n call atheists arro, but wetin they reasons for god don exist? mtchewwww

babaolowo1000:
I am a female by the way

There is a girl I always admired she is 4 years older than me

I always looked up to her and thought she was amazing: beautiful, intelligent, hard working etc

When I saw her in Facebook I was scared to add her
However, I decided to add her and send a message saying "congratulation on your graduation " - she ignored me and after a long request rejected my add. I did not have a profile picture at the time but I had my name and we had a mutual friend. I was shocked so I added her again but she rejected me again.

I was confused but moved on with my life. I met her a year later as I was asked by her mum to be aseobi for wedding and I said yes. I met her and she was friendly and smiling, and tried to hug me but I was friendly and smiling but did not really hug as I felt why should I hug someone that doesn't think.I'm worthy enough to be their friend on Facebook. My mum asked her.if she knew.me and she said yes...

Anyways, I moved on and gave her benefit of doubt, its not by force to accept someone in facebook. I was aseobi at her wedding.
I later sent her another message on Facebook saying hello Mrs ademola, how are you? And she replied "all is well. You?" I said fine and she did not reply again.. No thank you for taking the day off work/school and sewing clothes to be aseobi, she sounded so blunt

I did not contact her again for a few years.. But then someone close to me died and because she also went through a similar thing a long time ago I sent her a message saying what happened to me "hi, my sister died etc.." She saw the message and just did not reply.

What did I did to deserve this from my role.model? She seems wicked.

wetin craze you?

cosby02:
God's not dead
he's surely alive
living on in the inside
roaring like a lion.

poem dey great but na sense

wen dese deists stuk betwixt past n present gonna just realise god na real!? gotta spread confusion n call atheists arro, but wetin they reasons for god don exist? mtchewwww

If Allah dey real an made universe, how do muslim know he the only one?

if allah na creature, den wetin be him? if Allah exists, maybe dem dey other Allahs exist also? we jus cant see am, right?

I guess there is no god but Allah na catchy like There is lots of gods named Allah

praise satan!!!!

Scholar8200:
Meanwhile, furthermore to the facts being a historical record of a nation, another reference is the places mentioned therein. Take for example:

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuweiba

scottish wikipedia?