The fragile peace in Southern Kaduna State has once again been interrupted with an overnight attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Reports reaching us indicates that soldiers stationed around Kagoro township were engaged in fierce gun battle with suspect Fulani herdsmen last night following series of attempts by the marauders to access the area.

The gunmen were reported to have started the onslaught on Sunday evening in Zangan, Kaura Local Government area, but were successfully repelled by the soldiers. They however remobilised and retuned to Zangan, burning several houses and touching churches. At the time of filing the report, it was confirmed that no one knew the whereabouts of the village head, with suggestions that he may have been missing.

Following the attack, it has been reported that the area has become desolate, as most villagers have resorted to taking refuge in neighbouring villages.

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Civil War And Genocide


“Let’s go kill the damned Igbo/ Kill off their men and boys/
Rape their wives and daughters/ Cart off their property…”


A radio broadcast in the Hausa language of Nigeria’s northern Hausa-Fulani people delivered this message in the Northern state of Kaduna on May 24, 1966. Only a few days later, an unknown number of Igbo peoples in the North were sought out and killed. People were reportedly targeted in churches and in their homes. The killings were seen as revenge on the Igbo for the deaths of the Northern government officials who perished in the coup.

A New Government

A mere six years after attaining independence, Nigeria became entangled in the unavoidable net of differences that existed between its people. Political parties split the nation on levels equivalent to ethnic and regional divisions with the Action Group of the Yoruba in the West, the Northern People’s Congress of the Hausa-Fulani in the North and the National Council of Nigerian Citizens of the Igbo in the East.



The scene in 1966 included a dense population disgruntled by the corruption and apathy of the government under Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of the NPC. In the early morning hours of January 15, Prime Minister Balewa was awakened, shoved into a car, taken to the outskirts of Lagos, and shot in the head. A full military coup had begun. Several other prominent men, both of the government and the military, who were seen as threats to the revolt were also killed. Sooner rather than later, however, the rebels had to surrender to army loyalists who had them outnumbered.

Nevertheless, as the government of Balewa had favored the Northern Region in a blatant manner, many southerners took joy from the fact that he and some of his regime’s primary men had been forced from power. The government wiped clean, the army loyalists who had detained the rebels were left with an orphaned nation to piece together. Major General Johnson Aguyi-Ironsi became Nigeria’s new leader.

Unfortunately, Ironsi was a known Igbo from the southeast; many of the original coup’s leaders had also been Igbo. On top of regional disparities, Igbo are predominantly Christian while Hausa-Fulani practice Islam.

Northerners immediately took the new government as a drawn-out scheme by the Igbo people to win power over the North and the country as a whole. Soon enough, Igbo were persecuted.

Massacres

“Let’s go kill the damned Igbo/ Kill off their men and boys/
Rape their wives and daughters/ Cart off their property…”

A radio broadcast in the Hausa language of Nigeria’s northern Hausa-Fulani people delivered this message in the Northern state of Kaduna on May 24, 1966. Only a few days later, an unknown number of Igbo peoples in the North were sought out and killed. People were reportedly targeted in churches and in their homes. The killings were seen as revenge on the Igbo for the deaths of the Northern government officials who perished in the coup.

The violence continued into the following month and many Igbo were forced from their homes in the North to the Eastern region where they would be safe amongst other Igbo. The East, in turn, was overflowing with injured and maimed refugees with little resources and shelter.

Even after the counter coup of July 29, 1966 gave the North the upper hand once more, Igbo continued to be hunted down in a second wave of hatred that lasted from September to October.

Why?

Many speculate the Igbo were still experiencing the anger of officials who had lost power in the original coup.
Others think the economic prosperity and educational superiority of the Igbo may also have aroused resentment against them from the Hausa majority.
Whatever the case, thousands upon thousands of Igbo were dead in a matter of months. Prior to the counter coup, Ironsi’s philosophy of centralized government and reduction of regionalism kept him from taking any decisive measures; and even after the north regained power, Igbo were targeted, mutilated, killed. Those who survived were driven to the East in search of refuge. In response to the agitation caused by hatred from the people and apathy from the government, the Eastern states of Nigeria declared sovereignty from Nigeria on May 30, 1967, calling themselves the Republic of Biafra.



Nigeria-Biafra Civil War

The Nigerian federal government’s primary strategy during the war with the self-proclaimed state of Biafra drew numerous negative responses from all over the world in terms of humanity, but many nations did nothing to get in Nigeria’s way due to issues that would arise politically.

The federal government, under General Gowon immediately disregarded Biafra’s claims of sovereignty and promulgated that its main objective was a unified Nigeria, under any circumstances.

Whereas Biafra started out as encompassing most of Nigeria’s southeast regions, the end result was a landlocked Biafra who had no access to food or medicine with which to aid its dying population (as depicted on the map: the green area in the second frame is all that’s left of Biafra, which was originally the entire tan area).



Nigeria’s strategy to impose sanctions and blockades on Biafra began immediately in 1967 and even warned outside nations from assisting Biafra as it would infringe upon Nigeria’s authority as a sovereign state. The effects of the strategy were so swift and profound that a 1968 report from the International Red Cross stated three million children were nearing death.

The UN could do little as Biafra was not recognized as a state and governments responses varied in terms of their political relations. France upheld a people’s rights to self-determinations as outlined in Article 1 of the ICCPR while Britain and the US refrained from interfering, saying Nigeria’s sovereignty would be infringed.

Many organizations not affiliated with governments did come to Biafra’s aid, however, including UNICEF and OXFAM.

The unfair distribution of military power coupled with a dying economy (and population) ultimately led Biafra to surrender to Nigeria on January 15, 1970…exactly 4 years after the original military coup overthrew the government.

Genocide?

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide states “genocide” is “an act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

Did the Hausa-Fulani commit genocide against the Igbo during the massacres of ’66? Did the Nigerian federal government commit genocide against Biafra by starving its population during the Civil War?

The Igbo definitely constitute as a “national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,” and many would argue that the radio broadcast and the simultaneous outbreaks of violence against the Igbo prove the killings were engineered. However, although the Igbo were systematically targeted in the killings of 1966 with full intent to harm, there is nothing proving that the government or the Hausa was trying to wipe the Igbo out completely, especially since most of the attacks against them were in the Hausa-dominated North as opposed to the entire country. But, the Convention states “in whole or in part,” one of the most ambiguous of descriptions in Human Rights law.

Why did no one act? Nigeria itself had an Igbo man in power at the time of the first massacres, but his principles of unifying Nigeria while Nigeria was splitting at the seams kept anything productive from happening.

Upwards of 30,000 Igbo were killed and 2 million were displaced after the massacres, but they are not officially recognized as ‘genocide.’

Could the systematic starvation of an entire population, therefore, be genocide? This time Nigeria was targeting the whole of Biafra and it was relentless in its agitation right up until Biafra’s surrender. The famine induced by Nigeria’s blockade left another 2 million dead. Some nations offered their help, others respected political ties. It is easy to see why the situation was difficult to handle as, more than anything at this point, Nigeria was fighting with itself.

look at those pleading for amnesty for the sect-in all from the same tribe with elrufai, sanusi Yerima sultan and many more

The Fulani at War, As Nigerians Helplessly Looks On.

There is a war raging in Nigeria between the Fulani and various ethnic groups. It is a classical multifaceted war; stimulated, driven and fuelled by environmental, political and cultural differences.

Clausewitz defines war as “an act of violence to compel our opponents to fulfill our will.” In the past years the Fulani- and various other ethnic groups skirmishes manifested as a full-scale war, and can as well be likened other armed conflicts taking place globally, in the last years. The combatants are armed with sophisticated assault weapons, and are determined to wreck maximum havoc. The killing of men, women, and children and the destruction of farm crops and animals are a regular feature of this war.

Recent happenings in Nigeria have unfortunately given the impression that top ranking Fulani elite have already taken sides with the Fulani herdsmen, in the agenda to partition farmlands land into Fulani cattle grazing reserves and resources are being garnered to actualize this agenda. A national grazing bill is being introduced at the National Assembly to give legality to this conspiracy of land dispossession, and usurpation.

The fact must be pointed out that the nomadic Fulani are conflicted in much of West Africa. In Mali, Guinea, Senegal, Ghana, Niger as in Nigeria, the story of clashes between Fulani herdsmen and crop farmers abound. In all cases it starts with a Fulani herdsman or herdsmen driving their cattle into crops farms to graze. The farmers in order to protect their crops, farms and livelihood, attack the Fulani or attempt to chase them away. The Fulani retaliate by opening fire or violently defending their cows by killing or maiming the farmers. The conflict escalates as the Fulani migrate from that scene to yet another.

In Ghana and Nigeria, the clashes between the Fulani and crop Farmers have been intensified as desertification, deforestation, and climate changes continue unchecked by successive governments. In Ghana the Fulani are fighting in Agogo, Kanongo, Brong-Ahafo, Northern, upper East and western Ghana, Volta and Eastern regions.

In Nigeria, the Fulani have continued to clash with sedentary farming communities in Plateau, Ogun, Oyo, Sokoto, Nassarawa, Benue, Rivers, Bauchi, Yobe, Enugu, Cross-Rivers states and the Federal Capital Territory. The war being fought with the Tiv is fought in Tiv territories of Benue and Nassarawa state, where the Tiv have lived in the last three centuries, farming; rice, yams, cassava, beniseed, soya beans, and keeping their own cattle the Muturu cows. The Benue state and Tivland is Nigeria’s bread basket.

The War Zone

After months of tip-toeing around the subject, the Nigerian media reported that from the 8-10th February 2011,armed Fulani herdsmen numbering between 200-500 sacked three districts in Gwer Local government, unleashing an orgy of violence and killing for two days that left scores dead and rendered 20,000 people homeless. The damage to property according to the media was over a hundred million naira(about $750,000.) Other versions claimed that the Fulani and mercenaries had more sophisticated assault weapons than the police. The Nation Newspaper reported that the operation was “similar to the invasion of Borno state by members of Boko Haram.”

On March 5,2012,scores of Fulani invaders, crossed river Benue into Benue State. Armed with AK47, Mark 4 and other assault weapons, the Fulani invaders sacked the Tiv farming community, marching through a distance of thirty kilometers from Tse Abatse Mbamegh to Tse Joo. They killed all men, women and children in their path. They also destroyed farmland, economic trees, and burnt down several houses, food barns and killed domestic animals. These communities have had neither previous quarrel nor conflict with the Fulani.

The Fulani attack of Tiv farmers on their ancestral lands has continued sporadically in the past, since 2010, but from 2011, assumed the dimension of a full scale war of aggression against the Tiv in Benue, Nassarawa and Taraba states. Several hundreds of non-combatant men, women and children have been killed and maimed; over five thousand people are reported to be refugees in their country Nigeria. The firepower of the Fulani has defied even the Nigerian Army, which recorded fatalities when they attempted to engage the invaders. The two governors of the two states have attempted to resolve the conflict without success. In intensity, this war has ben more deadly, and wrecked more casualties, and spread over a larger territory than the Israeli-Palestinian war, in the last one year.

The following communities in Benue state have come under the Fulani firepower. Nyiev, Tse Anda,Yandev,Dooga, Kpata,Lokobi,Mbagwen,Tse Zaki,TseKper,Chile,Tse Kpoku,Tse Kpar, Sengev, Gbuku and Tse Yaji.

In Nassarwa state; Andori,Rukubi, Akpanaja, Agyema, Idaku, Gidan Rai, Ankome, Agimaka, Ekije development area, Migili, Eggon, Agatu and Doma.

Open your eyes

The truth is out.

What we have been saying is coming to pass

Reports of Christians attacked in central and northern Nigeria draw more attention, but in more southerly Benue state Islamic extremists killed at least 205 Christians in the last six months alone, sources said.
In the southeastern part of Nigeria’s middle belt, Benue state’s Agatu Local Government Area saw deadly attacks on Christian farmers by Muslim, ethnic Fulani herdsmen from May through November that displaced an estimated 10,000 people, Christian leaders said.
As in attacks in Plateau state, several of the assailants appeared to be mercenaries from outside the area rather than herdsmen, and locals questioned how the Fulani became so heavily armed. In some of the attacks a herdsmen spokesman alleged stolen cattle as the reason for the bloodshed, but frequently the Nigerian press asserted that motives for the attacks were unknown.
Christian leaders, however, said they had no doubt the Muslim assailants aimed to demoralize and destroy Christians.
“These attacks on Christian members of our churches have disrupted church activities, as Christians can no longer worship together in their congregations,” the Rev. David Bello, bishop of the Anglican diocese of Otukpo, told Morning Star News.
The Rev. Michael Apochi, Roman Catholic bishop of Otukpo Diocese, added that attacks by Muslim Fulani gunmen have devastated Christian communities.
“Life has become unbearable for our church members who have survived these attacks, and they are making worship services impossible,” Apochi told Morning Star News by phone.
The two Christian leaders called on the Nigerian government to urgently take measures to curb unprovoked attacks on Christians in rural areas of the state.
In the early hours of Nov. 9, Muslim Fulani gunmen killed 25 Christians in seven villages, said area Christian leader Sule Audu.
“Seven Christian communities were completely ravaged by the rampaging Muslim Fulani gunmen,” Audu said. “The previous Thursday, Nov. 8, two Christian communities of Ikpele and Okpopolo were attacked by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen in a raid that resulted in the killing of three persons, injuring many others, and the displacement of about 6,000 Christians.”
The attacked villages were Ello, Okpagabi, Ogwule-Ankpa, Ogbangede, Ekwo, Enogaje and Okpanchenyi, he said.
Another area Christian leader from Agatu, John Ngbede, confirmed the attacks.
“It is true that Agatu is under attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen at the moment,” he told Morning Star News. “Many of our Christian brethren have been killed. The Muslim gunmen that are attacking our Christian communities are numerous; they are so many that we can’t count them. They are spread across all the communities and unleashing terror on our people without any security resistance.”
Most of the 6,000 Christians fleeing for their lives have taken refuge at neighboring Apa Local Government Area and at Obagaji, he said.
“We are tired of these unending bloodbaths being carried by the Fulanis,” Ngbede said. “Moreover, we would also want the Nigerian government to step into the matter by beefing up security and extending assistance to the victims of these attacks in the affected communities.”
In all, Christian leaders in Benue State said that the Muslim Fulani gunmen invaded seven Christian communities in one week in November, killing and maiming members of the communities.
Daniel Ezeala, a deputy superintendent of police and the Benue state police spokesman, said the attacks have continued.
“Seven Agatu Christian villages are currently under heavy attacks from armed gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen,” Ezeala said on Dec. 11. “We can’t confirm the exact number of causalities now. However, we are on top of the situation.”
Christians believe Islamic extremist groups have increasingly incited Fulani Muslims to attack them in Plateau, Kaduna, Bauchi, Nasarawa and Benue states. They suspect that Fulani herdsmen, with backing from Islamic extremist groups, want to take over the predominantly Christian areas in order to acquire land for grazing, stockpile arms and expand Islamic territory.
Christians make up 51.3 percent of Nigeria’s population of 158.2 million, while Muslims account for 45 percent. Those practicing indigenous religions may be as high as 10 percent of the total population, according to Operation World, so the percentages of Christians and Muslims may be less.
On Oct. 12, gunmen killed 30 Christians in Oguchi-Ankpa, Christian leaders said. Apochi and Bello said the Christians were killed in their sleep after Muslim Fulani herdsmen broke into their homes. Houses, church buildings and other property were destroyed in the attacks, they said.
On Oct. 4, Muslim Fulani gunmen attacked Ejima, killing three Christians, according to Stephen Dutse, chairman of Agatu Local Government Council. Three days prior, Christian and community leaders in the area had declared a month of fasting and prayer in the face of unceasing attacks on them, he said.
“It has become necessary to seek God’s intervention in the face of the frequent attacks on Christian communities here by Muslim Fulani herdsmen,” Dutse said by phone. “Not less than 60 Christians have lost their lives in three attacks by Muslim Fulanis within the last two months, November and December, while over 10,000 Christians have been displaced and church activities been suspended.”
On Sept. 29, Muslim gunmen killed 13 Christians in the Agatu area in the early hours of that Sunday morning as they began worship services.
On July 1, Christian leaders said, Muslim Fulani gunmen attacked Christians in Okpanchenyi village, killing 40 people.
On June 8, Muslim Fulani gunmen attacked a Roman Catholic Church farm at Ichama Christian community of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue state. Juliana Obeta, chairperson of the Okpokwu Local Government Council, said the assailants killed one Christian. Others were wounded and treated at St. Mary’s Catholic Hospital in Okpoga, she said.
“The Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked our communities on June 7 and 8, killing one person, and carted away 40 cattle belonging to the Catholic Diocese at Ichama,” Obeta said. “Many Christians, mostly children and women, have been forced out of their villages as their homes were destroyed.”
On June 2 and 3, about 45 Christians were killed by armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Agatu Local Government Area, Christian leaders said.
On May 12, armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen in the Okpanchenyi and Ekwo Christian communities of Agatu killed 45 Christians. Church leaders said a massive number of Muslim Fulani herdsmen invaded the area on the Sunday night and killed 38 people, while the others were killed in another attack in the early hours of the next day.
Later, authorities reportedly discovered that some of the assailants were dressed like Fulanis but were apparently hired assassins from out of state. Armed with AK-47s, the assailants invaded several communities, including an attack on a funeral, killing Christians and burning houses and church buildings, Christian leaders said.
Audu said that in the May attack, his village was destroyed.
“About 38 bodies of Christians murdered were recovered by us,” Audu said. “Armed Muslim gunmen numbering over 700 invaded the communities, setting fire on houses in about five villages. They overpowered security men and started killing our people, and thousands of our people have been displaced.”
Ngbede, the Agatu Christian leader who is also state Commissioner for Works and Transport, reportedly described the attacks as unprovoked and “an attempt to eliminate the people of the area.”

Two pastors were among the victims of a deadly attack by Hausa-Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria on Sunday that left dozens injured.

Four people were killed in the attack on the villages of Gindin Waya and Sondi in the Wukari Local Government Area of Taraba State.

The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in Nigeria puts the injured at around 30.

One of those slain was the pastor of Sondi church, who was killed along with his son, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said. The other pastor was killed as he went to his farm.

CAN said many of the attackers were dressed in military uniform and that it was not the first attack by the largely Muslim Hausa-Fulani herdsmen on Christian areas.

The Christian Association of Wukari told the CRC raised concerns that the attacks were happening because security forces are ignoring the information being passed to them.

CRC Nigeria president Reverend Caleb Ahima urged government intervention to halt the bloodshed in southern Taraba.

"The Hausa-Fulani north seems to be determined to wipe southern Taraba off the map of this country," he said.

"What is happening? How come that one local government area has been attacked seven times now and it seems as if the country has no good security intelligence gathering network, or that security reports are not being used."

The Arewa People's Congress (APC) is a group in Northern Nigeria established to protect the interests of the Muslim Hausa and Fulani of the area. It has been described as a militant wing of the Arewa Consultative Forum. The group was formally launched on 13 December 1999. It was chaired by a retired army officer, Brigadier General Sagir Muhammed, who had been an operative in the Directorate of Military Intelligence.
Boko haram .

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The Hausa Fulani oligarchy is currently using the All Progressive Congress (APC). Its intention is to foist another Fulani son on the rest of us as the President of Nigeria. The APC is the modern Northern People’s Congress (NPC). Right now, they are trying to convince us that Mohammadu Buhari, a certified fundamentalist, pretentious and cunning man of dubious integrity who once insisted that Sani Abacha was a “saint” who never stole a dime of Nigerian money; Atiku Abubakar, an American wanted fraudster; Rabiu Kwankwanso, a confused political scallywag and Aminu Tambuwal, a clueless, dour but efficient manipulator, all of them of the Fulani stock, are the only options the rest of Nigeria should consider as our president in 2015. This APC agenda is the same as that of Ahmau Bello’s in the first republic. Or so it seems.

"I'm set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century"
-- Sir Ahmadu Bello (Premier , Northern Region and grandson of Uthman Dan Fodio) The Daily Times, May 3, 1961

whenever the chieftains of northern oligarchy want anything done in the colonial contraption called Nigeria that will overwhelmingly fall within their socio-politico-economic interest, they have willing southern dancing partners to take the floor.

Whether it is the so-called One-Nigeria, quota system, Kaduna refinery or moving capital city to the northern region of Nigeria, there are insurmountable numbers of southern Nigerians ready to do the biddings for chieftains of northern oligarchy.

The blame of regressive Nigeria, manifested by actions of northern oligarchy, should partly hinge on the shoulders of moronic southern Nigerians.

Islamic party of nigeria

Apc arewa peoples congress

Tinubu and the south west are traitors serving there fulani masters.

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Well it is all coming together.

Read and free yourself.

Boko haram+APC+Fulani=Fulanisation of Nigeria.

The Koran has been dipped into the Atlantic ocean.Lagos has been conquered and in did the Yoruba race have been conquered by the Fulani's as stated by Patriarch Of the North not just the north but the descendants of Danfodio.

Interest of the Fulani Oligarchy is deceitfully called the "interest of the North" by Fulanis.

Fulani Solidarity and the Betrayal of Bola Tinubu, By Remi Oyeyemi

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” – Aldous Huxley

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana

“History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future.” – Wole Soyinka

The loss of the Senate Presidency and the Speakership of the Federal House of Representatives by the APC faction of Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu is another chapter in the naivety and misguided priority of the current ruling political class of the Yoruba nation. It would have serious consequences for the fortunes of the Yoruba nation in the foreseeable future. The conscious efforts of Tinubu to cultivate the friendship of the Fulani ruling class for the purposes of wining political power within the Nigerian context would definitely end in disaster and this is just the beginning.

Though, it is not as if this was not envisaged by some perceptive minds, neither was it that the Tinubu and his crowd were never warned, but as our forefathers in Yoruba land aphorised, “Aja ti yio s’onu kii gbo fere olode.” Yes, the dog that is determined to get lost would never hear the hunter’s bugle. The Fulani are a special breed. They understand only one thing – power at all costs. It does not matter how close you are to them. It does not matter how friendly you are to them. It does not matter how helpful you are to them. When it comes to power and control, they rally round themselves to neutralise you and maintain your subservience.

It is amazing that the high percentage of literate political leaders in Yoruba land who flaunt their degrees and bounce around with pride in Western education are uneducated in and about politics and history. They lack what is called native intelligence. It is embarrassing how the age-long wisdom of our forefathers in Yorubaland have always been discountenanced by this generation of politicians. Our forefathers often contend “Ti omode ba subu, a wo iwaju. Ti agbalagba bu subu a wo eyin.” Literally, if a child falls, he looks ahead to more opportunities to be able to rise. But when an elder falls, he looks back to reflect on the cause of the fall and ensure the same mistake is not repeated.

Nigerians can agree and or disagree that the ascendancy of Goodluck Jonathan was a function of providence. But what could not be argued is that it was a golden opportunity to make Nigeria belong to all. But history will record it against President Jonathan that he had an opportunity to make Nigeria whole, new and fair to all but failed woefully. His failure, apart from causing his removal from power, it seems, would serve as the causality for the regression of true freedom among the ethnic nationalities in Nigeria by about 60 years. In other words, it would serve as one of the major reasons why Nigeria would not be able to be the “Country” it ought to be, at least not in the nearest future. There might be other unintended consequences of this Jonathan tragedy, but it would be prudent to allow time to tell.

The functional relationship of this Jonathan tragedy to the re-emergence of Fulani hegemony in Nigeria is that it has helped give undeserved cover to Tinubuism – the pursuit of power at all costs, without principle and the benefits of lessons of history. Tinubuism as a political philosophy glorifies the absence of principles, which translates to an absence of ideology; an absence of ideology translates to the adoption of mercantilism; the adoption of mercantilism translates to appropriation of the first law of nature – self preservation; the appropriation of the first law of nature translates to the approbation of the lack of commitment on the part of the members; and lack of commitment from members translates to inchoate and non-cohesive organisation. Tinubuism, as a political philosophy, incubates within itself the seeds of its own vulnerability and its evanescence.

Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu hid under the cover of the Jonathan tragedy to bring back to power an ethnic oligarchy that has held Nigeria hostage for over five decades. In doing this, he spent money, energy, skills, goodwill, time, sweat and put in everything he got to ensure the success of the coalition he put together. His hope of getting positioned for greater influence in the run of things was dashed by those he has helped back to power, because as in the nature of this ethnic oligarchy, they are not the type that shares “control and domination” with anyone, not even the best of their friends, as history has shown and events have continued to validate.

The game played with Tinubu by Muhammadu Buhari, Abubakar Atiku, Aminu Tambuwal and Shehu Garba, all Fulani, is not limited to this crowd. It is an elaborate plan backed by an entire oligarchy that operates silently behind the scenes. This plan which is still in its infancy has been hatched before now. Bukola Saraki (a Fulani-Yoruba) is just a willing tool in this elaborate plan. The Fulani oligarchy is not going to take another chance to allow power be controlled by anyone or group other than them or one of their own.

…don’t sing the nunc dimitis of Tinubuism yet. One thing I know, however, is that its number one protagonist, Tinubu, is a fighter, a warrior and a consummate strategist. He may still have some secret jokers up his sleeve. He is not about to fold up. His reaction and response to the unfolding treacheries around him would be interesting to see. It would be more interesting because his political traducers, detractors and possibly, enemies now control the levers of federal political power in Nigeria.

The alacrity with which President Muhammadu Buhari accepted and praised the election of Senator Bukola Saraki, a Fulani-Yoruba, showed that he was in on the conspiracy to reduce the influence of his benefactor, Tinubu, an ordinary Yoruba. Buhari promptly promised to work with the Saraki coalition. It should not escape observers’ attention that the first port of call for Senator Saraki after his election was to pay homage to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, who has always hated the guts of Tinubu since the days of Social Democratic Party (SDP) and General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua’s foray into politics.

For those who do not know, Alhaji Atiku has never liked Tinubu because he’s always felt Tinubu has been unwilling to be subservient to him and accept his (Atiku’s) leadership. Their rivalry has been very intense, since the days when General Yar’Adua built the solid coalition that defeated Chief Lateef Jakande in the SPD primaries in Lagos. Those who are privy to this rivalry are many. Some of them are deceased and some of them are still very much alive. The failure of Atiku to successfully use the platform of Action Party (AC) to realise his presidential ambition, after he was pushed out of PDP earlier on by President Olusegun Obasanjo, was considered the fault of Tinubu.

Alhaji Atiku is also of the view that his failure to clinch the presidential ticket of the APC was as a result of the machinations of Tinubu and he was willing to do anything to not only avenge his loss but to show that he has more clout than Tinubu. Hence, his subversion of the party’s will and role in the election and emergence of Senator Saraki as the Senate President. Sources inform that this scheme did not start after the election of President Buhari. Atiku and Buhari were alleged to have had a series of secret meetings after the completion of Buhari’s nomination in Lagos. The role of President Buhari’s Adviser on Media and Publicity, Shehu Garba, an Atiku protégé, in all this confusion should be closely and dispassionately paid attention to. The Tinubu coalition in the Senate was deceived and lured out of sight for Saraki’s election to hold without the interruption that could have marred the entire exercise if they were present.

Unknown to Tinubu, Aminu Tambuwal was in on the conspiracy. Tinubu certainly did not expect that a man such as Tambuwal who he helped build to national status would stab him in the back by helping to plot the installation of Saraki as Senate President. It further shows the naivety of Tinubu about the Fulani notion of power, and the vulnerability of his own political edifice. In the coming days, Tinubu would learn some more lessons in the struggle for power and domination in Nigeria’s space. He would be tutored in basic lessons of Fulani determination and solidarity to hold power at all costs and by any means necessary.

Already, grapevine sources are confirming the abandonment of Tinubu’s political ship by some of his hitherto beneficiaries, who are former governors actively collaborating with Buhari to build their own political fortunes and annihilate Tinubu’s influence in the South-West. These former beneficiaries are reported to be harbouring bitterness against their erstwhile benefactor for making their lives hell when they were still on the same boat with him. How successful they would be remains to be seen in the coming days. But observers should pay attention to the “divide and rule” tactics of the Fulani oligarchy.

Apart from these former governors, there appears to be several of Tinubu’s former beneficiaries being rumoured to be scheming and angling to benefit from the new arrangement without recourse to Tinubu. He is being left in the lurch. But these series of perfidies have been possible because of the nature and character of Tinubuism as a political concept and philosophy. When the kernel of a political philosophy is basically self-preservation, devoid of principle and ideology, it encourages the characteristics of the Hobbessian kind of politics and antics – “every man against every man”. In this kind of situation, every person has the liberty to do anything s/he thinks necessary for preserving his or her political career. As Thomas Hobbes earlier contended, this situation would be nothing but “solitary, nasty, and brutish.” Hobbes described this condition with the Latin phrase “bellum omnium contra omnes” meaning “war of all against all”, in his work De Cive, first published in Paris in 1642.

In the mercantilist environment that Tinubuism fosters, unhealthy competition is normally the order of the day. Backbiting, subversion, treachery, undermining, lies, deception, greed, avarice, covetousness, morbid and inordinate ambitions often rule the day. It is an “every man for himself and God for us all” kind of environment. There is no enduring loyalty. There is no perseverance and commitment. There is no sacrifice. There is no principle. Or if there is any principle at all, it is “what is in it for me?” This is why it is easier for his beneficiaries to break away from him without possible consequences as we are presently witnessing.

I detest Tinubuism as a political idea and this is public knowledge. But my heart still goes out to Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu in commiseration for the current challenges he is facing. It could be very saddening and depressing to work so hard and be denied the fruits of your labour. But the unfolding tragedy is not unanticipated. He and his group were warned of the possible outcome of the gamble and the gambit deployed in producing the Buhari Presidency. He was so blinded by the pursuit of power that he failed to take cognisance of the lessons of history and take caution.

But don’t sing the nunc dimitis of Tinubuism yet. One thing I know, however, is that its number one protagonist, Tinubu, is a fighter, a warrior and a consummate strategist. He may still have some secret jokers up his sleeve. He is not about to fold up. His reaction and response to the unfolding treacheries around him would be interesting to see. It would be more interesting because his political traducers, detractors and possibly, enemies now control the levers of federal political power in Nigeria.

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Fulani Herdsmen Kill 80 in Attack on Benue Community

It was a bloody Sunday when suspected Fulani herdsmen in the early hours attacked Egba village in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State, killing over 80 persons and injuring several others including women and children.
It was learnt that the herdsmen who stormed the village at about 4 am killed their victims, most of whom were fast asleep in their homes after which they razed the community, destroying economic trees, food barns and farmlands.

According to a resident, the casualty figure could be higher following the disappearance of many other villagers.

“The search for victims and survivors is still ongoing, but there is no doubt that the figure may rise because the entire village is like a killing field with the stench of blood everywhere and many still missing,” he said.

He said that the assailants came from Loko in neighbouring Nasarawa State, and started shooting and breaking into people's houses and hacked down anyone they met including women and children.

“At the moment, we have been able to recover about 80 corpses and many injured. The search is continuing but we are facing a major challenge.

“Many survivors with injuries are being evacuated to hospitals, but the problem is that we do not have a hospital in this area that is big enough to cater for the situation we have at hand at the moment,” the resident who preferred not to be named said.

At least 205 Christians Killed by Fulani Herdsmen in Benue State, Nigeria

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Reports of Christians attacked in central and northern Nigeria draw more attention, but in more southerly Benue state Islamic extremists killed at least 205 Christians in the last six months alone, sources said.
In the southeastern part of Nigeria’s middle belt, Benue state’s Agatu Local Government Area saw deadly attacks on Christian farmers by Muslim, ethnic Fulani herdsmen from May through November that displaced an estimated 10,000 people, Christian leaders said.
As in attacks in Plateau state, several of the assailants appeared to be mercenaries from outside the area rather than herdsmen, and locals questioned how the Fulani became so heavily armed. In some of the attacks a herdsmen spokesman alleged stolen cattle as the reason for the bloodshed, but frequently the Nigerian press asserted that motives for the attacks were unknown.
Christian leaders, however, said they had no doubt the Muslim assailants aimed to demoralize and destroy Christians.
“These attacks on Christian members of our churches have disrupted church activities, as Christians can no longer worship together in their congregations,” the Rev. David Bello, bishop of the Anglican diocese of Otukpo, told Morning Star News.
The Rev. Michael Apochi, Roman Catholic bishop of Otukpo Diocese, added that attacks by Muslim Fulani gunmen have devastated Christian communities.
“Life has become unbearable for our church members who have survived these attacks, and they are making worship services impossible,” Apochi told Morning Star News by phone.
The two Christian leaders called on the Nigerian government to urgently take measures to curb unprovoked attacks on Christians in rural areas of the state.
In the early hours of Nov. 9, Muslim Fulani gunmen killed 25 Christians in seven villages, said area Christian leader Sule Audu.
“Seven Christian communities were completely ravaged by the rampaging Muslim Fulani gunmen,” Audu said. “The previous Thursday, Nov. 8, two Christian communities of Ikpele and Okpopolo were attacked by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen in a raid that resulted in the killing of three persons, injuring many others, and the displacement of about 6,000 Christians.”
The attacked villages were Ello, Okpagabi, Ogwule-Ankpa, Ogbangede, Ekwo, Enogaje and Okpanchenyi, he said.
Another area Christian leader from Agatu, John Ngbede, confirmed the attacks.
“It is true that Agatu is under attack by Muslim Fulani herdsmen at the moment,” he told Morning Star News. “Many of our Christian brethren have been killed. The Muslim gunmen that are attacking our Christian communities are numerous; they are so many that we can’t count them. They are spread across all the communities and unleashing terror on our people without any security resistance.”
Most of the 6,000 Christians fleeing for their lives have taken refuge at neighboring Apa Local Government Area and at Obagaji, he said.
“We are tired of these unending bloodbaths being carried by the Fulanis,” Ngbede said. “Moreover, we would also want the Nigerian government to step into the matter by beefing up security and extending assistance to the victims of these attacks in the affected communities.”
In all, Christian leaders in Benue State said that the Muslim Fulani gunmen invaded seven Christian communities in one week in November, killing and maiming members of the communities.
Daniel Ezeala, a deputy superintendent of police and the Benue state police spokesman, said the attacks have continued.
“Seven Agatu Christian villages are currently under heavy attacks from armed gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen,” Ezeala said on Dec. 11. “We can’t confirm the exact number of causalities now. However, we are on top of the situation.”
Christians believe Islamic extremist groups have increasingly incited Fulani Muslims to attack them in Plateau, Kaduna, Bauchi, Nasarawa and Benue states. They suspect that Fulani herdsmen, with backing from Islamic extremist groups, want to take over the predominantly Christian areas in order to acquire land for grazing, stockpile arms and expand Islamic territory.
Christians make up 51.3 percent of Nigeria’s population of 158.2 million, while Muslims account for 45 percent. Those practicing indigenous religions may be as high as 10 percent of the total population, according to Operation World, so the percentages of Christians and Muslims may be less.
On Oct. 12, gunmen killed 30 Christians in Oguchi-Ankpa, Christian leaders said. Apochi and Bello said the Christians were killed in their sleep after Muslim Fulani herdsmen broke into their homes. Houses, church buildings and other property were destroyed in the attacks, they said.
On Oct. 4, Muslim Fulani gunmen attacked Ejima, killing three Christians, according to Stephen Dutse, chairman of Agatu Local Government Council. Three days prior, Christian and community leaders in the area had declared a month of fasting and prayer in the face of unceasing attacks on them, he said.
“It has become necessary to seek God’s intervention in the face of the frequent attacks on Christian communities here by Muslim Fulani herdsmen,” Dutse said by phone. “Not less than 60 Christians have lost their lives in three attacks by Muslim Fulanis within the last two months, November and December, while over 10,000 Christians have been displaced and church activities been suspended.”
On Sept. 29, Muslim gunmen killed 13 Christians in the Agatu area in the early hours of that Sunday morning as they began worship services.
On July 1, Christian leaders said, Muslim Fulani gunmen attacked Christians in Okpanchenyi village, killing 40 people.
On June 8, Muslim Fulani gunmen attacked a Roman Catholic Church farm at Ichama Christian community of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue state. Juliana Obeta, chairperson of the Okpokwu Local Government Council, said the assailants killed one Christian. Others were wounded and treated at St. Mary’s Catholic Hospital in Okpoga, she said.
“The Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked our communities on June 7 and 8, killing one person, and carted away 40 cattle belonging to the Catholic Diocese at Ichama,” Obeta said. “Many Christians, mostly children and women, have been forced out of their villages as their homes were destroyed.”
On June 2 and 3, about 45 Christians were killed by armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Agatu Local Government Area, Christian leaders said.
On May 12, armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen in the Okpanchenyi and Ekwo Christian communities of Agatu killed 45 Christians. Church leaders said a massive number of Muslim Fulani herdsmen invaded the area on the Sunday night and killed 38 people, while the others were killed in another attack in the early hours of the next day.
Later, authorities reportedly discovered that some of the assailants were dressed like Fulanis but were apparently hired assassins from out of state. Armed with AK-47s, the assailants invaded several communities, including an attack on a funeral, killing Christians and burning houses and church buildings, Christian leaders said.
Audu said that in the May attack, his village was destroyed.
“About 38 bodies of Christians murdered were recovered by us,” Audu said. “Armed Muslim gunmen numbering over 700 invaded the communities, setting fire on houses in about five villages. They overpowered security men and started killing our people, and thousands of our people have been displaced.”
Ngbede, the Agatu Christian leader who is also state Commissioner for Works and Transport, reportedly described the attacks as unprovoked and “an attempt to eliminate the people of the area.”
In response, Garus Gololo, secretary of the state Miyetti Allah Cattle Rearers Association, reportedly said the herdsmen attacked in order to recover about 550 cows he claimed the Agatu people had stolen.

Fulani Reign of Terror: The killing spree continues

More than 800 killed in less than six months

THEY are supposed to be herdsmen taking care of their cattle. But they have metamorphosed into butchers of human beings wherever they make their abode. That is the story of Fulani herdsmen who have turned the farmlands in several states in the North into slaughter fields.
Their hosts, who ordinarily should be their friends for accommodating them are slaughtered with reckless abandon. Hardly does a day pass without stories of the murderous activities of these nomads dotting the headlines of major newspapers in the country. They kill at the least provocation that one wonders whether they attach any value to human life at all.

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Civil War And Genocide


“Let’s go kill the damned Igbo/ Kill off their men and boys/
Rape their wives and daughters/ Cart off their property…”


A radio broadcast in the Hausa language of Nigeria’s northern Hausa-Fulani people delivered this message in the Northern state of Kaduna on May 24, 1966. Only a few days later, an unknown number of Igbo peoples in the North were sought out and killed. People were reportedly targeted in churches and in their homes. The killings were seen as revenge on the Igbo for the deaths of the Northern government officials who perished in the coup.

A New Government

A mere six years after attaining independence, Nigeria became entangled in the unavoidable net of differences that existed between its people. Political parties split the nation on levels equivalent to ethnic and regional divisions with the Action Group of the Yoruba in the West, the Northern People’s Congress of the Hausa-Fulani in the North and the National Council of Nigerian Citizens of the Igbo in the East.



The scene in 1966 included a dense population disgruntled by the corruption and apathy of the government under Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of the NPC. In the early morning hours of January 15, Prime Minister Balewa was awakened, shoved into a car, taken to the outskirts of Lagos, and shot in the head. A full military coup had begun. Several other prominent men, both of the government and the military, who were seen as threats to the revolt were also killed. Sooner rather than later, however, the rebels had to surrender to army loyalists who had them outnumbered.

Nevertheless, as the government of Balewa had favored the Northern Region in a blatant manner, many southerners took joy from the fact that he and some of his regime’s primary men had been forced from power. The government wiped clean, the army loyalists who had detained the rebels were left with an orphaned nation to piece together. Major General Johnson Aguyi-Ironsi became Nigeria’s new leader.

Unfortunately, Ironsi was a known Igbo from the southeast; many of the original coup’s leaders had also been Igbo. On top of regional disparities, Igbo are predominantly Christian while Hausa-Fulani practice Islam.

Northerners immediately took the new government as a drawn-out scheme by the Igbo people to win power over the North and the country as a whole. Soon enough, Igbo were persecuted.

Massacres

“Let’s go kill the damned Igbo/ Kill off their men and boys/
Rape their wives and daughters/ Cart off their property…”

A radio broadcast in the Hausa language of Nigeria’s northern Hausa-Fulani people delivered this message in the Northern state of Kaduna on May 24, 1966. Only a few days later, an unknown number of Igbo peoples in the North were sought out and killed. People were reportedly targeted in churches and in their homes. The killings were seen as revenge on the Igbo for the deaths of the Northern government officials who perished in the coup.

The violence continued into the following month and many Igbo were forced from their homes in the North to the Eastern region where they would be safe amongst other Igbo. The East, in turn, was overflowing with injured and maimed refugees with little resources and shelter.

Even after the counter coup of July 29, 1966 gave the North the upper hand once more, Igbo continued to be hunted down in a second wave of hatred that lasted from September to October.

Why?

Many speculate the Igbo were still experiencing the anger of officials who had lost power in the original coup.
Others think the economic prosperity and educational superiority of the Igbo may also have aroused resentment against them from the Hausa majority.
Whatever the case, thousands upon thousands of Igbo were dead in a matter of months. Prior to the counter coup, Ironsi’s philosophy of centralized government and reduction of regionalism kept him from taking any decisive measures; and even after the north regained power, Igbo were targeted, mutilated, killed. Those who survived were driven to the East in search of refuge. In response to the agitation caused by hatred from the people and apathy from the government, the Eastern states of Nigeria declared sovereignty from Nigeria on May 30, 1967, calling themselves the Republic of Biafra.



Nigeria-Biafra Civil War

The Nigerian federal government’s primary strategy during the war with the self-proclaimed state of Biafra drew numerous negative responses from all over the world in terms of humanity, but many nations did nothing to get in Nigeria’s way due to issues that would arise politically.

The federal government, under General Gowon immediately disregarded Biafra’s claims of sovereignty and promulgated that its main objective was a unified Nigeria, under any circumstances.

Whereas Biafra started out as encompassing most of Nigeria’s southeast regions, the end result was a landlocked Biafra who had no access to food or medicine with which to aid its dying population (as depicted on the map: the green area in the second frame is all that’s left of Biafra, which was originally the entire tan area).



Nigeria’s strategy to impose sanctions and blockades on Biafra began immediately in 1967 and even warned outside nations from assisting Biafra as it would infringe upon Nigeria’s authority as a sovereign state. The effects of the strategy were so swift and profound that a 1968 report from the International Red Cross stated three million children were nearing death.

The UN could do little as Biafra was not recognized as a state and governments responses varied in terms of their political relations. France upheld a people’s rights to self-determinations as outlined in Article 1 of the ICCPR while Britain and the US refrained from interfering, saying Nigeria’s sovereignty would be infringed.

Many organizations not affiliated with governments did come to Biafra’s aid, however, including UNICEF and OXFAM.

The unfair distribution of military power coupled with a dying economy (and population) ultimately led Biafra to surrender to Nigeria on January 15, 1970…exactly 4 years after the original military coup overthrew the government.

Genocide?

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide states “genocide” is “an act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

Did the Hausa-Fulani commit genocide against the Igbo during the massacres of ’66? Did the Nigerian federal government commit genocide against Biafra by starving its population during the Civil War?

The Igbo definitely constitute as a “national, ethnical, racial, or religious group,” and many would argue that the radio broadcast and the simultaneous outbreaks of violence against the Igbo prove the killings were engineered. However, although the Igbo were systematically targeted in the killings of 1966 with full intent to harm, there is nothing proving that the government or the Hausa was trying to wipe the Igbo out completely, especially since most of the attacks against them were in the Hausa-dominated North as opposed to the entire country. But, the Convention states “in whole or in part,” one of the most ambiguous of descriptions in Human Rights law.

Why did no one act? Nigeria itself had an Igbo man in power at the time of the first massacres, but his principles of unifying Nigeria while Nigeria was splitting at the seams kept anything productive from happening.

Upwards of 30,000 Igbo were killed and 2 million were displaced after the massacres, but they are not officially recognized as ‘genocide.’

Could the systematic starvation of an entire population, therefore, be genocide? This time Nigeria was targeting the whole of Biafra and it was relentless in its agitation right up until Biafra’s surrender. The famine induced by Nigeria’s blockade left another 2 million dead. Some nations offered their help, others respected political ties. It is easy to see why the situation was difficult to handle as, more than anything at this point, Nigeria was fighting with itself.

See the bolded part?
Thunda faya anybody wey say make we close Radio Biafra.
Ukwa dagbuo kwa the monkey or baboon.

The Yoruba slaves will never see the truth.

“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”

― Andrew Smith

Fulanimafia i have given you and ilks a bloody nose person.

I usually laugh at the sophisticated Southern mugus that usually claim 'I don't care where the president comes from". Have you ever heard a Fulani saying 'I don't care where the president comes from' and the Hausas signing off their destiny to be fulani slaves because of religion i pity your generation.

I also laughed when i heard them talk about an Emir of Enugu. That reminds me- Igbo leaders must start paying attention to Ebonyi state. Information reaching us has it that The Fulani muslims are quietly but vociferously capitalizing on the relatively lower literacy rate to convert Ebonyi youths into Islam by luring them with 2million Naira each. They may use these youths to cause havoc as they doing in Hausaland and illorin. Once the Fulani man infects you with islam, you'll start fighing his wars while he sits and reaps the fruits.

We may wake up one day and start hearing Emir of Abakaliki. If our Governors will not do anything about it maybe Nnamdi Kanu will help. We must act now! Please forward this message to Ipob, BZM and MASSOB

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fulanimafia:
“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”

― Andrew Smith

There will be a pro-hausa revolution in the few years. Hausas must stop being slaves and start asking questions.

The Yoruba slaves will keep on digging holes to place there coconut heads in.