The Horrors of Being Single in Nigeria

 

By Tochi Eze

It’s a typical Saturday afternoon and the atmosphere is almost tangibly boring. Naturally, I’m in the middle of an activity and by activity I mean my eyes were glued to my lap top’s screen, watching old movies. Then my phone rings, a blatant interruption of my perfectly scheduled movie time. I plaster a frown on my face and dig it up from under my pillow. I see the caller I.D and it is one of my aunties. My frown burrows deeper. She only calls when there is a wedding or a funeral.

BIAFRA: IPOB Delineates South East and South South Into Five Regions

Biafrans in Diaspora

The Customary Government of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has delineated the South-East and South-South area of the old Eastern Region into five differet region for the purpose of administrative mobilization regions as follows: 

IPOB hails Niger Delta Avengers for issuing Buhari ultimatum on Kanu's release

…insists Biafra not only for Igbo-speaking people 

Biafrans on a peaceful protest

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has commended the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, and the Red Egbesu Water Lions on the ultimatums issued the federal government to unconditionally release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu and the former national security adviser, Col. Dasuki Sambo (retd).

Fulani Killings: Archbishop Chukwuma Leads Women Of 'Uzo-Uwani' In Enugu On A Massive Protest

Pic 1: Uzo-Uwani Women Protesting in Enugu

Female Survivals of the Uzo-Uwani Massacre carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen have taken to the streets to register their grievances.

According to the protesters who are mostly women, they're mourning the lives of their loved ones whom they lost to Fulani herdsmen barbarism.

Justice Mohammed Uwais' son killed in air strike along with an ISIS leader

Abu Waheeb

Ibrahim Uwais, son of former chief justice of Nigeria, was killed in an air strike by US-led coalition forces on a senior ISIS leader in Iraq on May 6.

TheCable understands that Halima, Ibrahim’s wife who travelled with him to Iraq in February 2015, has called to inform her father-in-law, Mohammed, who was Nigeria’s chief justice from 1995 to 2006.

Othman Dan Fodio is Not Done With Nigeria Yet....

I came across this powerful piece on facebook by an insight provider and business consultant, Ogbo Awoke Ogbo, and decided to share it on this blog since it's in line with my thoughts on the Northern/Hausa-fulani conquest of Nigeria.

Armed Fulani herdsmen

Othman Dan Fodio is not done with Nigeria yet - that 's the crux of the whole matter!

By Ogbo Awoke Ogbo

Nigeria is not dealing with religion. Nigeria is not with dealing terrorism. Nigeria is not dealing with ethnic suspicion and tribal hatred - we really don't have issues with each other on personal levels (of my top five friends on earth, two are Yoruba, one Tiv, one Efik, one Igbo. And many of you don't know but I have Yoruba in-laws, nieces and nephews. So, don’t get these things twisted, if I must borrow the expiring slang of Nigerian teenagers).

Ken Nnamani, PDP And Politics Of Consistent Inconsistency

By Fred Idoko

Former Senate President, Ken Nnamani

When penultimate week the press became awash of the decision of the former senate president Ken Nnamani to quit the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, many minds were agitated. Among the litany of questions that cried for sincere answers were: what else could have happened aside the humiliating defeat suffered by PDP at the polls that warranted a man of his status to leave, particularly after a very long time since the fall of the party?, does it mean that PDP has suddenly become irredeemable? And then, why did this great man choose to momentarily quit partisan politics? This list arguably was inexhaustible. This was made more intriguing when he stated that

Oshiomhole's Marriage On The Rocks?

... as wife accuses him of being fetish

Gov Adams and Mrs Lara Forte Oshiomhole

If the reports by the DailyGlobeWatch is anything to go by, then the marriage between Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State and his wife, Lara Oshiomhole is heading for the rocks as the latter is reportedly seeking for a divorce.

Bomb Blast Rocks Chibok Community

According to a BBC Hausa service report, three bombs have exploded in north-eastern Nigeria's Chibok town, targeting three different places. The first bomb went off at a weekly market while another detonated at a security checkpoint. It is unclear whether the third bomb exploded.

Reports say the attacks were carried out by suicides bombers which has left 10 people dead and many wounded.

Militant Islamist group, Boko Haram raided the same town in April 2014, and abducted more than 200 girls who are yet to be released.

Court Annuls Impeachment of Enugu Deputy Governor

An Enugu State High Court has annulled the impeachment of His Excellency, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi as the Deputy Governor of Enugu State.

Ex-Enugu Deputy Gov. Onyebuchi

The court, which lambasted the members of the Enugu State House of Assembly, said their actions were in gross violation of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.

DAILY POST reports that the Court, presided over by Justice R.O Odugu, equally set aside the swearing in of new Deputy Governor after Onyebuchi was unlawfully removed.

Onyebuchi, who was in court with his wife said “I have forgiven those who were part of this justice”.

He jokingly added “I can now resume my chicken rearing”.

Details later…

Why Biafra Nation May Emerge Soon

“This 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 minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us and never allow them to have control over their future.”
                                          – Sir Ahmadu Bello (Parrot Newspaper October 12, 1960).

Director of Radio Biafra/Leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu in Court

These were the words of a supposedly nationalist; leader of the Northern Nigeria and Sarduna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, just 12 days after Nigeria gained her independence from the British colonial lords. 

Does this sound like a country that truly wants to be ‘One’? I don't think so.

Norway Is The Most prosperous Nation In The World, Nigeria 125 - Survey

By Ezekiel David

The Nordic nation of Norway has been ranked number one overall in the world in a global survey of prosperity. This will be the sixth year in a row the northern European nation has toped the highly respected list.

The Global Prosperity Index of the Legatum Institute, a private investment firm concerned with sustainable development projects worldwide, and based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, has 

The Laboratory Origin of AIDS and Ebola

Nancy Writebol, at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta. Photograpgh: John Spink/AP

In August 2014, when I wrote an article about Ebola being an American bioweapon in Nigeria, some people, who thought that America has the interest of Africans in heart, harangued me and urged me to use my time for ‘meaningful write-ups,’ (Laughs).

However I was glad  many others equally shared my thoughts on the possibility of Patrick Sawyer being covertly used as a bioterrorist in Nigeria by the American government.

Tools of Uthman Dan Fodio’s Estate (2)

President Muhammadu Buhari

By Remi Oyeyemi

Mr. Dogara has done us a great favour. His inadvertent revelations (at least that is what it is for those who did not know hitherto) underscored the fact that the “North”, spearheaded by the Sultanate, has realigned to be able to continue to dominate the rest of Nigeria, which is considered their inheritance bequeathed by Uthman Dan Fodio. The “North" as it were now has the President, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senate Leader and House Majority Leader. They also have the Chief Justice, Head of Federal Civil Service, Accountant General of the Federation, Director Department of Petroleum Resources, and very soon the Ministers of Defence, Petroleum, Industries and Finance would follow.

Tools of Uthman Dan Fodio’s Estate (1)

President Muhammadu Buhari

By Remi Oyeyemi

Mr. Yakubu Dogara, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, recently told the world an open secret – that the ongoing crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) is a result of the “New thinking in the North” aimed at appropriating total control of power to the exclusion of the rest or other sections of the country. Rather than be seen as a negative step, I consider this as a positive step towards the destiny of Nigeria to balkanise.