OF THE FOOLS OF THE SOUTH AND NOKBEKWARA (THE MIDDLE BELT)…THERE WILL BE WAR AGAIN, BUT A DIFFERENT WAR (PART 13)
Continued from Part 12:
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SERIES: SOCIAL WELL BEING, HEALTH, SAFETY AND SECURITY OF THE POOR IN THE CORE NORTH OF THE WEST AFRICAN STATE OF NIGERIA
(PART 13): Porous borders and national security in times of national emergency and unparalleled adversity
PART 13
Symbol of Sankonfa – A mythical bird in Akan folklore.
“Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as soon as you can, and keep moving on.” – Ulysses S. Grant during the Tennessee River Campaign in 1862. Quoted in J., Thompson Call to Arms: Great Military Speeches From Ancient Greece To the Modern World.
(PART 13): Porous borders and national security in times of national emergency and unparalleled adversity
In this series:
- SADA’S HYPOCRISY AND HOW THE FULANI, THE HAUSA AND THE KANURI ELITES HAVE BEEN CANNIBALIZING AND KILLING THE DESTINIES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE TALAKAWAS ACROSS CENTURIES
- A Lament to UNICEF, UNESCO, Mothers in Nigeria and World Leaders
- WAKE UP, CHILDREN OF AFRICA, WAKE UP, SCHOLARS OF AFRICAN DESCENT AND OFFER COUNTER-NARRATIVES - NOW IS NO SLEEPING TIME!
- CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA/WEALTH WITHOUT WORKING: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? HOW MUCH IS REALLY ENOUGH?
- CHAINANITY (DIPLOMATIC GANSTERISM) Vs. HUMAN BROTHERHOOD (DIPLOMATIC DIPLOMACY).
- WHAT IS GIBB?
Since July 13, 2020 when the 11th espousal on the current Nigerian tragedy, particularly the grave threat to national security, the looming famine beyond Biblical proportion, population explosion, intractable flooding, plight of the IDPs, the tragedy that is the children of Allah (the Almajirai), rape, youth violence, the danger of having kingdoms in kingdoms, terrorism, etc, JOHN ODEY ADUMA has been incubating/hibernating for ideas at his incubation/philosophical laboratory, and the result of that withdrawal from the crowd in search of the deeper things and meanings of life is what will be cascading from his intellectual Niagara Falls, and you would do well to enmesh/soak/saturate yourself in the falls.
And worried by the current state of reportage in the nations of the world, particularly in Nigeria, totally lacking in depth and investigation coupled with the usual resort and retreat to kinship or clannish journalism, the non-existent anonymous “authoritative source/s”, Aduma, whilst at the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc as its Editorial Board Chairman, had had to intervene to refocus the dumbing down of professionalism by propounding a theory he had then called Pyramidal or Tripodal or Triangular Criticism or Analysis, and in this series, you are going to read his latest media theories – The John Aduma Newsroom Boxes, the Dodecagonium; including political theories such as OMU, Nigerianistic Equality for the self-same reason, aimed at journalistic excellence and international best practice and in the furtherance of his vision of Nigerianism, Nigeriatopia and Nigerian exceptionalism.
You are therefore, welcome to read, drink, soak yourself therein, debate, dissect and analyse, chew it, swallow it up, and become wiser and reflective, but you are not to plagiarise, copy and paste to claim its ownership, nor regurgitate it, but give credit to the author if you must make reference, quote from it or you are fascinated by any word, phrases or idea.
As a teenager at Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, the age that the GIBB have chosen to join cultism and youth gang, it was Aduma’s dream to propound theories, be the most quoted intellectual on the planet earth and the greatest theorist and philosopher ever. And regarding that boyish dream, he is today widely quoted in academic journals and scholarly theses across the globe.
No doubt, you are already salivating and don’t want any further ‘traffic’ from the author on your way to his fountain of wisdom and knowledge, but before you are set loose, Mr Aduma ‘d like to ask you these questions: what is your dream?
Just what are your life’s dreams and goals? Happy reading!
Symbol of Sankonfa – A mythical bird in Akan folklore. Every Nigerian, and indeed African, must have the symbol of this bird on their desk.
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WHAT IS TO COME: BUHARISM, ARABISM AND THE FULANI RENAISSANCE
THE STATE OF THE NATION…DISUNITY IN DIVERSITY AND THE UNBINDING TIES
Regarding the present state of the nation, the Nigerian people are at a crossroads – at a point where the trumpet blast will either be to summon us to the construction site for the rebuilding of our Nigeria or to bid every Nigerian severally: TO THY TENTS O ISRAEL!
THE BUILDING PROJECT CALENDAR OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
Firstly, the foundation: 1914:
- 1960 -1961 – Project under construction.
- 1962-1965 – Work in progress with intermittent interruptions, making the workers to be on and off site.
- 1966- Workers on the run due to tremors occasioned by many fault lines pushing both the wall and pillars out of line.
- 1967-1970 – Building abandoned due to the unprecedented earthquake.
- 1970-1978 – Project under reconstruction
- 1979-2015 – Work in progress but experiencing intermittent ill-winds and constant interruptions.
- 2016 – Date – Building elevation was turned towards the East, leading to its collapse, work abandoned, workers very angry, bitter, disillusioned, and disenchanted - a situation worsened by the contractor absconding to an unknown destination. Workers now angrier, started fighting themselves! These inscriptions were boldly written at the in-and-out gates, and on all sides of the abandoned building: WORK STOPPED
MEN AWOL
CONTRACTOR ON THE RUN
- PROJECT UNFINISHED, PROJECT SUSPENDED, PROJECT UNCOMPLETED, PROJECT ABANDONED…CONTRACTORS ON THE RUN. NO LOITERING AROUND BY ANY YOUTH, FAILURE TO HEED THIS WARNING WILL ATTRACT THE SEVEREST PUNISHMENT EVER – IT COULD BE PAYING WITH YOUR LIFE. But there is a queer one to this warning: “Fire on the Mountain…run! Run! Run!” Even if you run to Dubai to join others there, be aware that you can only run, but never hide.
- 2020++ - (Quit Notices)… What next?
BUHARI’S HOUSE OF HORROR AND THE TRAGEDY OF A NATION
An invitation to reflect:
Nigeria is a nation on a stage perpetually acting a series of tragedy 24/7. The most recent stage-managed drama proves this point. That globally embarrassing drama was staged from ILE GBOMOGBO (the Presidency) by the shameless dramatis personae that abound therein – the OFFICIAL GBOMOGBOMO to divert the attention of the Nigerian people and their friends and foes across the globe from the death of the over 100 farmers at Zabarmari in Borno.
And it should make an entry into a book soon to be written by the OFFICIAL GBOMOGBOMO titled: A BEGINNERS’S GUIDE ON HOW TO STAGE-MANAGE A SUCCESSFUL MASS ABDUCTION and will be edited by ‘Professor’ Rehoboam Daura, the artistic director of the ILE GBOMOGBOMO NATIONAL TROUPE.
But whilst every Nigerian and the world ponder on this recent shame and global embarrassment, let immortal Abbey speak even to the dead consciences of all the monsters at ILE GBOMOGBOMO and their field monsters and foot soldiers on such an ungodly errand: “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
THIS IS YOU, MUHAMMADU BUHARI:
“Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.”
- William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar.
Purposeless, visionless, mission less, dreamless, non-aspirational, non-motivating, uncreative, uninventive, not innovative, directionless, supra-clueless, a walking dead President, merciless, passionless, very lifeless, vicious, grossly incompetent, grossly inconsiderate, thoughtless, bestially stingy, provincial, clannish, crassly beastly.
Mostrous, insensate/insensitive, intolerant, a bigot of the very worst type, hyper-sensitive, hyper-eruptive, hyper- tyrannical, hyper-dictatorial, sanguinary, cold-blooded, incomparably nepotistic, small-minded, brain dead, brain damaged, ha-for-do (how-I-for-do?) President, time waster running a government by caretakers/proxy, very cruel, Pharisaic, very wicked and always revelling in purposeless malignity, very boring, vampiric, certificateless, parochial, insensible, pretentious, hypocritical, self-centred, rabid hater of humanity, but a passionate lover of beasts (cows), ethnic supremacist, bigot, zealot, domineering, tyrannical, dictatorial, tendentious, good for nothing, very inflexible, unforgiving, mean, meaningless, very irresponsible, uncanny, capricious, uncaring, unsure, lacking confidence generally, an all-round misfit, thoroughly useless, rubbish, garbage, double-minded; indecisive and without an iota of honour.
Hey, you lota there, kindly tell Muhammadu Buhari that whenever Muhammadu Buhari is around, let Muhammadu Buhari know because Muhammadu Buhari wants to speak to Muhammadu Buhari the utmost word of truth about Muhammadu Buhari, perhaps Muhammadu Buhari will listen to Muhammadu Buhari, since all else have failed to make Muhammadu Buhari examine his ways and review his strategy of governance.
But alas, it is too late “…because the falcon cannot hear the falconer”, hence “mere anarchy is loosed upon” our Nigeria.
Honour and integrity require that a person hands up in surrender when they find they cannot perform a task because they are not fit health-wise, especially if demented and intellectually bankrupt/destitute.
GOVERNANCE NO BE BY PROPAGANDA AND VILLIFICATION OF THOSE WITH OPPOSING VIEWS BECAUSE TO GOVERN A NATION MEANS TO GOVERN A NATION AND WHAT IS MORE, GOVERN WELL AND DEMOCRATICALLY TOO.
Yet even more, I say again, that governance is not about kitchen gossip, nor the other room gossip, nor marriage, nor having many concubines, nor who is snatching whose wife or whose husband; nor who is asking who to marry their daughter, nor who upon such a request by whomsoever decided to rebel against such an EXECUTIVE ORDER/REQUEST, nor about chicken shed or cow pen gossip, nor about a beer parlour gossip, nor barbering shop gossip, nor mammy market gossip, nor pepper soup joint or Buka or Mama put or Ala carte or cafeteria or book launch gossip nor fiction, nor about looting, sharing oil blocks, or about contracts changing hands from one person to another nor about looting.
But governance again, is about governance. Pure and simple.
Can Nigerians not now see what their so-called ruling elites do in the nation’s hallowed grounds of service?
ABOUT JOHN ODEY ADUMA
A highly successful and award–winning British Chevening Scholar, Poet, Editor, Columnist, Communications Consultant, Author, Commentator on national and international issues, Environmental and Publishing Consultant, with expertise in Conflict Management, Public Surveillance, Media, Business Management and Administration, General Marketing, Market Research, Sales, Advertising and Public Relations.
John Odey Aduma, British Chevening Scholar, author of The Diamonds Are Here, Lord Rumens (ed.) and Be A Beacon of Hope: A Message to Young Britain (soon to be released to the global public by Austin Macauley Publishers, United Kingdom), and a renowned environmental journalist was born on December 13, 1963 at Okpoma, Yala in Ogoja, Cross River State of Nigeria.
He was educated variously at Christ the King’s School, Okpoma, 1969-1970; St. Mel’s Primary School, Woleche-Ebo, 1971; St. Gabriel’s Primary School, Ebo-Ipuole, 1972-1974; Christian Vocational Commercial School, Okuku, Ogoja, 1975; Faith Institute of Stenography, Shogunle, Lagos, 1976; Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, Lagos, 1977-1982; University of Ibadan, Department of Adult Education, 1983-1984; Obafemi Awolowo University, 1985-1989, where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in English Studies; University of Lagos, 1991-1992, where he worked for and obtained an M.A. in English; and at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, 1994, where he took a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism; City University, London, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2004, where he was a British Chevening Scholar and studied for his M.A. in International Journalism with specialism in Environment; City Business College, London, 2005-2006 for a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies, but completed only the taught course; Voice Coaching, CSV Media, London, 2006; Radio Production, CSV Media, London, 2006 and the City and Guilds Certificate in Conflict Management. 2006.
Besides, he has attended many training courses in Planning, Writing and Production Skills on Communicating for the Environment.
He was the winner of the Nigerian Media Merit Award for Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, Reporter of the Year, both in 1992. He also received a Community Service Award in 1997 and the Outstanding Staff Award of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc in the year 2001.
In 1994, he edited Lord Rumens, a book on a prominent Nigerian business tycoon and Lawn Tennis icon, Chief Ajisomo Alabi. He was a member of the Green Environment Movement, and the Nigerian Field Society; he was on the Core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit’s Publicity Chairman, and Products and Exhibition sub-committee.
Other national and important committees on which Aduma had also served or headed included, the National Planning Committee, Youth Development, Federal Ministry of Education and Youth Development, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; Chairman, Planning Committee, Alhaji Babatunde Jose’s 75th Birth Day, 2000, (Dr. Jose was a doyen of Nigerian journalism and was the first African Editor, Managing Director and Chairman of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc); Chairman, Planning Committee of the 7th and 8th General Murtala Muhammed’s Memorial Lecture (the late Nigerian Head of State), 2001 and 2002; Chairman, Planning Committee of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc’s 75th Anniversary, 2001 including sitting on many national techno-industrial committees (too numerous to mention here) in his capacity then as Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria.
Aduma, Communications/Environmental Consultant, Critic, Poet, Essayist, and Columnist, was formerly Staff Reporter, The Guardian (flagship of the Nigerian media) 1990-1993; Consultant/Chairman, Media, Green Environment Movement, Nigeria, 1990-2003; Senior Correspondent, The Independent Weekly, (1993-1994); Head, Environment and Property Desk, The Punch (1994-1997); Editorial Consultant and Contributing Editor, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation’s Tortoise Magazine, 1995; Contributing Editor, Pole Star Magazine (1998); Member, Editorial Board of The Nigerian Conservationist Magazine (1995-2000), Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria, (1997-2000), Public Affairs Manager (Lagos Office, The Pastoral Resolve, 2000, (a pastoralists NGO) headed by one of Nigeria’s former Head of State) and currently, Nigerian President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari; and Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc (2000-2003).
He was one of the twelve eminent Nigerians appointed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR) of Nigeria into the Administrative Panel of Inquiry, also known variously as Presidential Panel, Commission of Inquiry, respectively to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna into and out of Nigeria in 2003.
In year 2003, he attended the Chevening Leadership Programme, (sponsored by the British Council and Shell) at the elite Lagos Business School (the Pan-African University) in Nigeria and thereafter, proceeded to the United Kingdom as a British Chevening Scholar to study International Journalism at City University, London, where he worked for and obtained an MA in International Journalism with specialism in environment.
In addition to his array of degrees and extensive experience in journalism, environment, development, international diplomacy and international security, Mr Aduma obtained the AET (Award in Education and Training), Level 3 from CONEL, a Further Education College and member of the Capital City College Group (CCCG), London in 2018, including Higher Education courses in Education and Training – the CET (Certificate in Education and Training) Level 4 and the Specialist Diploma in Teaching English: ESOL & Literacy, Level 5, both in 2018 from the same Further Education College.
Aduma is currently a doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London and is the Chief Executive Officer of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE (www.vigilance-securitymagazine.com).
Yours in the service of God, our Nigeria and all of humanity.
- Johnny Boy
SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.
** *The Voice of One crying in the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).
*To be continued.
