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Written by JOHN ODEY ADUMA, PUBLISHER AND BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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SERIES: UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL

Link to Part 11 OF THE FOOLS OF THE SOUTH AND THE MIDDLE BELT…THERE WILL BE WAR AGAIN, BUT A DIFFERENT WAR (vigilance-securitymagazine.com), published NIGERIA WATCH INTERNATIONAL, POSTED ON MONDAY, 13 JULY 2020 01:44

Please click here to read my “Strategies” and “Hypotheses” for insight into and a deeper understanding of what have been going on in the polity after these STRATEGIES and HYPOTHESES - NIGERIA WATCH INTERNATIONAL

POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, 24 MARCH 2021 00:42: OF THE FOOLS OF THE SOUTH AND NOKBEKWARA…THERE WILL BE WAR AGAIN, BUT A DIFFERENT WAR (PART 17) (vigilance-securitymagazine.com)

SERIES: SOCIAL WELL BEING, HEALTH, SAFETY AND SECURITY OF THE POOR IN THE CORE NORTH OF THE WEST AFRICAN STATE OF NIGERIA

(PART 19): Porous borders and national security in times of national emergency and unparalleled adversity.

Although this espousal has come with various titles, it is basically the same ‘one’ and ‘toro’!

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 hibernating and incubating 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, nor lift up ideas from this treatise, interview your usual captive interviewees and turn round to attribute my ideas to them, giving the global audience the wrong impression that these ideas of mine were those of these your captive interviewees. You should therefore give credit to the author if you must refer to, quote from it or you are fascinated by any word, phrase/s or idea, and failing will this time round lead to litigation.

As a teenager at Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, Lagos, the age that the G-IBB 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!

(PART 19): Porous borders and national security in times of national emergency and unparalleled adversity

In this series -

Preamble:

Ethnic Cleansing and the Tides in the Affairs of Nigeria: How to tackle the Fulani’s 217 Years of Slaughtering the Indigenous Peoples of the Upper and Lower Niger.

And now is the time for the Sultan of Sokoto, Brigadier-General Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar IV to lead his Fulani ethnic nationality and all their collaborators in all of their atrocities across centuries to atone, apologise and pay reparation  for these centuries sins against humanity by his forebears (all the Fulanis, particularly those of the lineage of UTHMAN DAN FODIO, their Hausa, Kanuri, the Shuwa Arab and Arab collaborators from the East) - all the killings, destructions, maiming, raping, mass abductions and subsequent enslavement of the indigenous people of the Lower and Upper Niger across centuries since 1804 till the very present.

 There is a tide in the affairs of men.

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat,

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.

  • Brutus in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.

 

  • 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
  • THE TALIBANIZATION OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: THE RATIONING AND CONTROL OF KNOWLEDGE IN NIGERIA, PARTICULARLY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.
  • THE SUBTLE CONQUEST AND SUBSEQUENT INVASION OF MODERN OYO… MUHAMMADU BUHARI, MUHMMADU SA’ADU ABUBAKAR IV AND THE REVIVAL OF THE FULANI EMPIRE IN MODERN NIGERIA
  • A LAMENT TO UNICEF, UNESCO, MOTHERS IN NIGERIA AND WORLD LEADERS ABOUT THE RAPE PANDEMIC IN NIGERIA
  • CAN THE NORTH EVER SAY TO THEIR DAUGHTERS: “BE LIKE NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA?”
  • THE NEW NORTH/NORTHERN RENAISSANCE: MOON SIGHTING Vs. MOON EXPLORATION
  • AND WHO SHALL THE YORUBAS TELL THEIR CHILDREN/WARDS TO BE LIKE: OBAFEMI AWOLOWO OR BOLA AHMED TINUBU?
  • BOLEKAJA ‘MESSIAHS’: AWOISM Vs. AGBEROISM
  • AWOISM Vs. JAGABANISM
  • JIHAD IN NIGERIA AND WEST AFRICA – WHETHER IT IS CAMOUFLAGED AS TERRRORISM OR EXTREMISM OR ISLAMISM OR INSURGENCY OR FULANI HERDERS OR BANDITS OR RAPISTS OR PAEDOPHILES OR PURPOSEFUL CATTLE RUSTLING SO AS TO GO ABOUT KILLING THE SO-CALLED “PAGANS,” OR THE SO-CALLED UNKNOWN UNIFORMED MEN, JIHAD IS JIHAD AND A JIHADIST IS A JIHADIST, NO MATTER THE MODE OF THEIR CLOTHING…AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING - FROM THE 6TH CENTURY AD…IS NOW, AND EVER SHALL BE!
  • NORTH: FROM GROUDNUT PYRAMID, HIDES AND SKINS EXPORTATION TO EXPORTATION OF TERRORISTS/EXTREMISTS/ISLAMISTS/JIHADISTS/WAHABIS/SALAFISTS/RAPISTS/PAEDOPHILES/KILLER HERDSMEN/CATTLE RUSTLERS/KIDNAPPERS/ARMED ROBBERS/MASS ABDUCTORS AND ALL EVILS IN THE WORLD
  • But who will the Yorubas tell their daughters to be like: Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo or Pastor/Chief/‘Distinguished’ Senator/ ‘First Lady’ Remi Tinubu?
  • THE FHKSA’S FRANKENSTEIN MONSTERS – BOKO HARAM MEMBERS, AL-SHABAAB FIFLE, ISWAP, ISLAMISTS, INSURGENTS, JIHADISTS, ARABISTS, BANDITS, FULANI CATTLE HERDERS, KIDNAPPERS, ARMED ROBBERS, RAPISTS, ARSONISTS, DRUG MULES, DRUG ADDICTS THAT HAVE NOW FILLED EVERY LITTLE CORNER OF THE NIGERIAN FEDERATION IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT –

MY REDICATION AND PLEDGE TO OUR NIGERIA

NIGERIA: WORK IN PROGRESS IN SPITE OF

“Lord God Almighty, please divine for me the future concerning my relationship with Nigeria and let me know ahead of time if there's ever going to be a time and day in which for one reason or another I will deny Nigeria, disbelief and give up on her, and if there's to be such a time and day - then don't let me live to see them, as I'm resolved more than ever before to believe in, love Nigeria eternally and as the trumpet sounds enquiring: who's on the side of Nigeria? Without hesitation, I reiterate my earlier pledge announcing again that I'm on Nigeria's side, and having so rededicated myself to her, I hereby once more recommit myself to the unfinished work, even as I proclaim to my fellow Nigerians, the world and posterity that as for me and my house, we 'll serve Nigeria and do our utmost duty to her, the world and all of humanity. So, help me God.”

Dedication

This treatise is dedicated to all the military families in Nigeria, especially those families whose sons, daughters and other loved ones fought in the 30-month civil war – 6 July, 1967 – 15 January, 1970 to keep Nigeria one under the Gowonian slogan: TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE!

This writer is a believer in the democratic right of all persons to self-determination. But it should not be expected such worthy clamour be trivialised by every Omaga and Omagu, revelling in infantile radicalism and hoping to achieve 15 minutes fame would launch into the streets of the Republic in an excited stupidity, absurdity, irrationality, irascibility and Okonkwoan impetuosity to heat our ever super-sensitive, supra-combustible, hyper-inflammable  and super-eruptive polity to disturb the peace of our Republic and subsequently spark chaos of unprecedented magnitude.

Also, these otu nu (Yala, for something that fans the ember of fire - a type of rose in which the wearer aims to challenge anyone to a fight or Ala wa nalo ge nu nu (Yala, for an invitation to a fight – come we fight/come make we fight/come and let us fight) must be made aware that treasonable felony is still the name for their mercantile misadventure, despite the present state of zero government and governance in Nigeria.

And whilst these Bolekaja messiahs hunting for ignominious headlines and short-lived fame use their dragnets to get unwary children and young people to the streets to holler everywhere like the Roman mobs, it is my candid admonition to them severally, that they need to spare a thought for all those who had laboured to keep our country together till the very present, especially the founding fathers and the families of all the 30, 000 victims of the 1960s pogrom/genocide/ethnic cleansing and that of all those who died during the referenced war on both sides still in pains, with some having their pensions seized till date, they and their financiers and the drummers behind the scene must all never fail to count the cost of their ignominious and embarrassing infantilism and agberoism (thuggery).

On this note, even whilst with the benefit of hindsight I know their response would be: YORUBA NATION: ORO DIE THE MATTER KO-O, I would yet go ahead and request the Nigerian people thus: will my fellow compatriots, home and abroad join me in telling these commercial separatists: DIE THE MATER! DIE THE MATTER?

Nevertheless, I hereby insist very magisterially: Olorun Oba gbo, ani ke DIE THE MATTER!

Theme: United We Stand, Divided We Fall:

  • One country
  • One people
  • One destiny.

“An old man had a set of quarrelsome sons, always fighting with one another. On the point of death, he summoned his sons around him to give them some parting advice. He ordered his servants to bring in a bundle of sticks wrapped together. To his eldest son, he commanded, "Break it." The son strained and strained, but with all his efforts was unable to break the bundle. Each son in turn tried, but none of them was successful. "Untie the bundle," said the father, "and each of you take a stick." When they had done so, he called out to them: "Now, break," and each stick was easily broken. "You see my meaning," said their father. "Individually, you can easily be conquered, but together, you are invincible. Union gives strength."

-      Aesop's Fable of the Bundle of Sticks.

 

12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

-      Ecclesiastes 4:12.

 

Author

The agonising plea of a (former) barracks boy…Nigeria shall be free…Nigeria shall prevail, and Nigeria will overcome some day.

Every Nigerian and friend of Nigeria should before reading this treatise, please take a pause and listen to the song, and after reading it, please do come back and listen to it again: we shall overcome [song for human being ] Original Music Pete Seeger Rearranged by Manmohan Panda - Bing video. Credit: Singer and Panda-Bing video.

 

Secession: “I have tried it and failed. And if anyone tries to divide this country, they too will fail just as I have.”

  • Eze Gburugburu Ndigbo, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Zik the Great: Father of Modern Nigeria.

“Gentlemen, softly, softly, don’t give up on Nigeria.”

  • Nnamdi Azikiwe.

“A broken bottle has no mekwatalism.” (“You cannot put together broken pieces of a bottle.”).

  • Nnamdi Azikiwe.

 

GO ON WITH ONE NIGERIA (GOWON):

General Yakubu Gowon: Father of our Great Union… “TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE!”

ETHEREAL, MYSTICAL AND METAPHYSICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE MYSTERY OF THE CONFLUENCE OF THE RIVERS NIGER AND BENUE VIS AVIS THE GREAT NIGERIAN UNION

  • “Let us re-build the House of Nigeria on the Rock.”

(Matt. 7:24-27).

24 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”

  • (Matt. 7:24-27).

The confluence of rivers Benue (left) and Niger (right) at Lokoja. The Presidency, the Ministry of Information and Culture under that lying Lai Mohammed who has the most corruptive influence on our Republic; the NOA, one of his MDAs must as a matter of utmost urgency, commission art works of the confluence as above or actual photos of same on giant bill boards and be strategically put at all airports, sea ports and entry points to inter-state boundaries and as welcome bill boards in strategic locations in each state and Local Government Councils of the Federation, having a message as below or as: LET OUR UNITY SURPASS THAT OF RIVERS NIGER AND BENUE or LET US LIVE TOGETHER LIKE OUR TWO GREAT RIVERS – NIGER AND BENUE or LET US CO-HABIT, LIVE TOGETHER AND SHARE WITH ONE ANOTHER LIKE RIVERS NIGER AND BENUE, ETC.

“And what God has put together, let no one put asunder.”

  • Mark 10:9.

There should come a time, and now is that hour, when the proverb in all Nigeria for all who will talk about de-confluencing, or de-amalgamating or de-configuring or de-coupling or divorcing Nigeria should be told: GO TO LOKOJA!

At the end of the day, what will prevail is not Kanuan treachery, mercantilism, and prodigality nor Dokuboan attention-seeking firefly effect and political effervescent nor Igbohoan impetuosity and gross irresponsibility nor Koikian irascibility, irrationality, and unparalleled absurdity nor Akintoyean twilight rascality and infantilism, but the Alakean sagacity.

Nation building is not a work that is begun and finished by a generation, but it is a continuous process which is not finished by any generation so they can claim the glory, but it is a type of work that continues onto the end of the Age. Therefore, it is expected of every generation to do their bits, act their parts and pass on the baton. (Please refer to the Author’s 121 Restructuring Fundamentals).

But why are the two rivers different – one red (the Niger) and the other, blue (the Benue)?

The two rivers even though are a body of water are different, having different names and colours, for the same reason that one Nigerian, Oloko Odey (Yala in Cross River State) is different from the other Nigerian – Thomas Kade - (a Bachama, Numan in Adamawa State), and just as these two rivers are water bodies, both Oloko Odey and Thomas Kade are not only Nigerians, but two human beings created by the same God who created the two rivers - what is more, children of Abraham!

And as the two rivers, having been confluenced by God since the time of creation, for (a) reason/s known only to God , their Creator, and since the time of that ‘marriage’ or union or conjointment or conjugality, have managed to live together in spite of their differences, by first understanding their differences, and secondly, forgetting these differences, so both of them can live/co-habit together in the spirit of waterhood in an atmosphere of peaceful co-existence and an unparalleled and eternal harmonious relationship, every Nigerian is thus, invited to GO TO LOKOJA, reflect on the mystery of the two rivers, then return home to do likewise – like the Niger and Benue, dwell together in love with their neighbours/compatriots in the spirit of brotherhood , in an atmosphere of peaceful co-existence and in an unparalleled harmonious relationship – neither as tenant nor landlord nor settler nor stranger nor alien nor host nor indigenes nor non-indigenes nor foreigner nor illegal immigrant nor migrant, but citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and joint heir to the throne of the kingdom of Nigeria.

And by way of conclusion, all Nigerians are called upon to as Ahmadu Bello had advised: UNDERSTAND OUR DIFFERENCES and echoing the Great Zik: LET US FORGET OUR DIFFERENCES.

Therefore, I urge you, fellow country men and women by the mercies of God, be ye reconciled to our Nigeria like never before, for we shall win, overcome and prevail only in our togetherness and not in our scatteration!

And when we live together, work together, reason together as one, our foes in and around the world cannot defeat us, but in separation, they shall prey and devour us, standing singly and fighting individually.

Fellow Nigerians, let us stay and be together for we are the hope of Africa, and all persons of African descent because in our scatteration and falling apart, Africa and her children the world over are at the mercy of the predators once more!

Fellow Nigerians, a word is enough for the wise.

Please take a pause and listen - source: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

FOR MAMA’S SAKE (OJI WONAH OGBUDU) …I’M FROM A MILITARY FAMILY, PLEASE DON’T BREAK-UP NIGERIA

  • Firstly, I must accept the fact that there are genuine concerns regarding the worsening state of our Nigeria as every part of the nation now appears to be falling apart in an uncontrollable rapidity before the very helpless eyes of all Nigerians and their do-nothing and good-for-nothing Government.
  • This observation and reality notwithstanding, I would yet ask the commercial separatists/secessionists/insurrectionists this simple question of mine and here is that question: did you have a mother, any relations who had cried very profusely, and I mean very profusely in all honesty and with every sense of responsibility, who cried and prayed every day for 30 months (July 6, 1967-15 January 1970) that the Nigerian civil war lasted?
  • And how many coffins were brought home to your family compound to provoke heightened cries, weeping and gnashing of teeth, sorrow upon sorrow, and anguish upon anguish?
  • Also, during that 30-month civil war, how many coffins with your relations who had gone to fight to keep Nigeria one inside them were brought to your family compound?
  • Please hold your breath still: how many coffins containing your kinsmen and women/towns men were brought to your village/town, sometimes in profusion, making you lose count of the number – day after day, week after week, month after month all through the year for a period of 30 months, such that the whole village/town/community were in mourning for the period that war had lasted. Bros and sis, war is not love making. It is what the dictionary says it exactly is – war, simply war and nothing else, but war!
  • Whilst the war lasted, did you experience (a) situation/s when kids playing in the middle of your family compound or at their backyard, whose age ranged from three and above were all bombed to shreds and some instantly becoming limbless, with the bodies of other kids ground to pieces and unrecognizable, and a permanent fathomless deep craters left in your family compound/village/town/town square or in the middle of the road or at a playground, etc, till this day?
  • This writer was less than four years when the war started on July 6, 1967, and from the time of my elder brother, LAWRENCE LEGA ONWOGIDI (k.a. Jomo) joining that war till it ended, he did not see his mother smile or laugh as it was all cry and sorrow for her. And after that war had ended, her disbelief that her son had returned safely from the war in answer to her prayers, and those of other members of the family, only turned to joy when she sighted her son wearing a very well starched and ironed military uniform into our compound with the hitherto tears of sorrow and anguish, giving way to tears of boundless joy as mother and son glued together in joy and blessedness hugging one another with other members of the family waiting for their turn.
  • And that blessedness was followed by the command to kill the fattest goat – yes even, my mother’s own fattest ’cow’, not for a prodigal son, but to celebrate the homecoming of her very worthy, illustrious, and patriotic son who had enlisted himself in the war to keep Nigeria together, which according to “Jack” Yakubu Gowon: TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE!
  • Please take a pause and listen – source: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video
  • And now more than any time in our national odyssey is the time to repeat that feat again to keep Nigeria one, with a renewed vision of making her henceforth greater, celebrating her diversity and co-habiting with one another in an atmosphere of harmonious relationship and peaceful co-existence like the Niger and Benue, sharing our commonwealth together equitably and building an egalitarian society of fraternal proximity.
  • Once again, Nigerians are reminded that war is not love making, but war, and simply nothing, but war.
  • It must here be stated that when my elder brother returned safely home from the war, whilst he gave other children and members of my family and neighbours money, which similarly I too was expecting from him, he instead gave me non-edible-non-monetary gifts – which I did not appreciate for years until I became a writer and a journalist – Peter Obe’s Civil war Photo album, and a copy of the Geneva Convention on war! You would agree with that kid – me, at the time these were very meaningless gifts, which in fact, attracted sympathy for me from kids to whom he had given money.
  • The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, sorry the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF LYINGFORMATION, PROPAGANDA AND ’SHIORKOR and the Presidency could partner with interested players in the private sector to reproduce that civil war photo album by Mr Peter Obe, who also like this writer was a former employee of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc.
  • Again, history repeated itself when immediately he and I arrived in Lagos on the 10 of October 1976 at the Airport Headquarters Barracks, he handed again, NOT money to me, but every book ever published by the then very functional and effective Ministry of Information and Culture on the abortive coup of February 13 by Col Bukar Suka Dimka (Mr C.Godwin) who was caught by Constable Jika Iyah after a tip-off by a bus driver, Matthew Nga near Afikpo, Abomege to be precise, in the present day Ebonyi State; and other publications by the Daily Times on that coup, in addition to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Charles Dickens’ fat book – The Great Expectations and Gulliver’s Travel by Jonathan Swift and a booklet on the United Nations, all of which were then beyond my age. As at this time, Things Fall Apart, which I have today as an international scholar come to regard as AFRICA’S ANTHROPO-SOCIO-POLITICO-ECONO-CULTURAL BIBLE, all I was able to tell the other barracks boy about it was: “De book sweet well, well or De book sabi sweet well, well.” And if you are still wondering why that chief of the anti-colonial Apostles wasn’t given the Nobel Prize for Literature by the hyper-sensitive West, go and read TFA again. Until my grave, I will remain thankful to God and proud that He made Achebe to write that book on our behalf as a people – and every teenager, and indeed, all Africans MUST read Things Fall Apart – and maybe, if Muhammadu Buhari is able to read or has the brain to read THINGS FALL APART, he would be able to advise Muhammadu Buhari that things have indeed, fallen apart in our Nigeria under Muhammadu Buhari, and perhaps, that realization would lead Muhammadu Buhari to RESIGN and leave our Nigeria alone, so Muhammadu Buhari can go and rest in Daurageria or this might make Muhammadu Buhari relocate to Niger to meet his father’s people there or be re-united with his kinsmen in Niger, wherein lies the policy thrust of his administration – but are we about to bid welcome to the SAHEL REPUBLIC or the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF THE SAHEL sooner than expected?
  • It would be recalled that on handing me the books/pamphlets and booklets on the 1976 coup, I must confess, I was immediately drawn to the plight of our then First Lady, Her Excellency, Mrs Ajoke Muhammed and her children by her sides whilst seated on a sofa! And little did I know I would one day be close to the family to report copiously about the Murtala Muhammed Botanical Garden, Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria as a Staff Reporter with The Guardian on Sunday, more than any journalist starting from conception to implementation to when it was opened by the Military President, General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida, and later the only Nigerian journalist that was asked by Her Excellency to stay back after the President had gone, for a lengthy interview with her.
  • Again, history was made when again as a Staff Reporter with The Guardian, my former Lecturer at Great Ife, OgberianrienG. Darah in his capacity as the Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc had to ask me to recite a poem from Okigbo’s Heavensgate – The Path of Thunder at the Nigerian Institute Of International Affairs, Victoria Island during one of the Murtala Muhammed Memorial Lectures, with General Sani Abacha, then Chief of the Defence Staff, who was that year, the Guest Lecturer for that year’s edition of the MM Memorial Lecture.
  • Also, I was to later be appointed the Chairman of the Planning and Organizing Committee of the Murtala Muhammed Memorial Lecture for two consecutive years 2001 and 2002, when it became a trust and came under a new name Murtala Muhmmed Trust, now Murtala Muhammed Foundation, and in this capacity, was visiting the former first family’s home for consultation with her Excellency, Mrs Ajoke Muhammed.
  • What is more, Aisha Bello-Muhammed was to later become an external member of our Editorial Board at Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
  • In retrospect, why did my soldier-elder brother not give me money, especially when as a kid I was expecting a monetary gift from him, but that fat photo album on the Nigerian civil war by Peter Obe and the little booklet on the rules of engagement during wars – The Geneva Convention?
  • Again, why did he keep for me all those historical books about Nigeria, including a booklet on the United Nation and works by three of the world’s greatest (novelists) writers – Achebe on the other side of the Atlantic, and Charles Dickens and Jonathan Swift on this side of the Atlantic instead of giving me money? And it should here be stated that both as a writer and literati and an international scholar, I have till date continued to study the works of these three great authors – and as a matter of fact, I studied Literature and Creative writing at Ife for my first degree and at Master’s Level, Literature at the University of Lagos, Nigeria?
  • Did my brother had a premonition about what I would later study, become and the global platforms that would one day be at my disposal?
  • Lest I forget, earlier in 1975, my eldest brother MR ANTHONY WONAH ONWOGIDI, a teacher, rice merchant and poultry farmer gave me a copy of The Arrow of God by the same Achebe, which he said he had bought in one of his business trips to Abakaliki.
  • Did he then know I would study Literature at both my first and Postgraduate-degree levels, in addition to becoming a writer and a journalist? He once did say God revealed to him about what I would become, but up to what extent?
  • Therefore, for my brother, LAWRENCE LEGA ONWOGIDI’S SAKE, DON’T LET NIGERIA BREAK UP! DON’T LET IT SCATTER AND FOR THE SAKES OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE SACRIFICED TO KEEP NIGERIA TOGETHER TILL THE VERY PRESENT – DEAD OR ALIVE, DON’T LET THIS HOUSE FALL. PLEASE, DON’T, BECAUSE THEY HELPED PUT IT UP!

THE METAPHOR OF THE HEAD

But whatever happened to the head when all the parts of the body are now rebelling; what ever happened to the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sport, and Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Federal Ministry of Police Affairs, Federal Ministry of Interior, and where gone has the NOA at a time like this?

THE WAR OF NON-STATE ACTORS AGAINST STATE ACTORS IN NIGERIA…PLEASE DON’T LET THEM CURSE ME FROM THEIR GRAVES!

***Please take a pause and listen – source: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

As Nigeria again totters, tumbles and falters inching at a geometrical rate to the brink, as a (former) barracks boy, the warning of soldiers to me to ensure nothing ever happened to Nigeria has continued to dominate my mind during the day and at night, my dreams.

I cannot tell why of all the barracks boys of my generation, the soldiers singled me out to entrust this message. Was it because they instinctually knew I would someday have (a) platform/s in which this message of theirs entrusted to only me would be passed onto successive generations of Nigerians? Or was it because I was generally known within and outside the barracks as a very brilliant and very well-behaved boy, in addition to be being very popular and a role model to my generation of barracks boy?

This warning would come when the soldiers were generally relaxed, especially in the evenings when they would be returning from the field/s after the evening sports and wanted to socialize by having a stick or two of cigarette and having some ogogoro or beer to top up with…and dem monkey tobacco - you know what I mean, or should I say DOG AND BABOON TOBACCO?

Generally, it was expected of us barracks boys to pay soldiers compliments as if we were soldiers and not be sloppy in our walks and standing at attention with your hands by your sides whenever we were to be sent on an errand – but sometimes, one could forget, and you would be sharply reprimanded. And there would then come a barking out order thus: “My friend, my friend, stand properly and pay me my compliments right away. Where do you think you are in – disco hall or obrukutu joint?”

Your interlocutor would after lighting the cigarette or opening the bottle of beer you had just handed to him, rolled up his trousers or pushed up the sleeves of their shirts or wherever, to show you the wounds they had sustained during the 30-month civil war: “You see that big scar bah?”

“Yes, sah!” would come a reply to that question.

“Na ya Papa put am for my body?”

“No, sah!”

“Na you put am there?”

“No, sah!”

“Na me put am by my sef?”

“No, sah!”

“I buy am for market?”

“No, sah!”

“War…you see bah, war no good-o.”

“Ogoja, now open your two-two ears make I tell you. This country, we fight to keep am together. As your head hot like this, anything happen to this country, Wallahi, I go curse you from my grave. Ogoja, wallahi, hear me ho ha; anything happen to this country, I go wake up from my grave and drag you inside make we go yonder together!”

In another scenario, walking sloppily as you were being sent on an errand or returning from one, an order to walk properly would go out thus: “My friend, double up!” “You get belle?”

Me: “No sah!”

Soja: “This one wey you dey waka like you get belle so – abi you no know where you dey? This place na barracks, no be disco…abi you dey go see ya girl friend?”

Me: “Sorry sah!”

And as you handed the cigarette to him, and soon as it had been lit and a puff of smoke went up into the vacant air, he would begin to engage you in a conversation, thus: “Ogoja, at ease.”

That relaxation was soon followed by a smile.

Soja: Ogoja, this soja work no easy-o.

Me: At all, at all, Oga.

Soja, (roll up trousers to show the scar of the wound he had sustained during the 30-month civil war): Ogoja, you see this wound bah?

Ogoja: Yes, sah.

Soja: Na when Federal troop under Murtala wan cross from Asaba to the other side of River Niger in Onitsha na him this happen to me – ober (over) 5000 of our boys wey those Nyamiri people dem kill. When the bomb blast, na so e throw ‘way me, up, up, and knack me for ground gbagam! When e happen, my two-two ears block and I no hear again…Ogoja, war no good-o. As they say your head hot like this, no let anything happen to this country-o. You hear me bah, Ogoja?

Me: Yes, sah.

Soja: Ogoja, wallahi, if anything happen to this country when I done die, I go curse you from my grave. You dey hear me bah, Ogoja?

Me: Yes, sah.

Soja, (Touching the scar lightly): When the thing happen, I lost consciousness. As I dey talk to you now, na miracle. Me mah, I no know how I survive am. See, this part of mah body, they cut the flesh here and join am with this one. Then they come sew am together. Ogoja, you done see wey them dey sew person body like cloth?

Me: No sah.

Soja: Ogoja, make you hear me very clearly…let nothing happen to Nigeria. You done hear this statement before – TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE IS A TASK

Me: THAT MUST BE DONE.

Soja: Ya wa-a-a-a…Ogoja, you sabi the slogan.

Me: Yes, sah.

Soja: Na true, true say your head hot well, well. Ogoja, this soja work, as you sabi book like this, make you no join soja-o.

THE CHARGE

This charge by soldier after soldier to me not to let anything happen to Nigeria was made in every barracks I had lived in Nigeria by soldiers from different parts of Nigeria – every barracks at this time was a mini-Nigeria. And there could not have been a more auspicious time than now to pass on this charge from and by these soldiers to me, some of whom may not be with us now any more to all Nigerians: DON’T LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO OUR NIGERIA AND THEIR NIGERIA. AND PLEASE DON’T LET THEM CURSE ME.

THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR: OF JIHADISTS AND PATRIOTS

But did Jihadi Muhammadu Buhari know that whilst he and other Islamists of his ilk, particularly those of the Fulani and Hausa ethnic nationalities saw the Nigeria-Biafran war as ISLAMIC JIHAD, to expand the Sokoto Caliphate and the so-called Uthman Dan Fodio Dynasty (UDFD) further South through Nokbekwara to the Atlantic Ocean, they were indeed, true Nigerians who were really, really fighting to keep our Nigeria one?

CRYING AND PLEADING ON BEHALF OF THE WAR WOUNDED AND DEAD

Fellow Nigerians without insight knowledge into the Federal Military Government’s Rehabilitation Programme for the war-wounded generally known by soldiers and their families in all barracks throughout the Federation as half-cards – and later medically unfit (or “medical unfit”, as a barracks expression) should ask Gowon, Obasanjo, T.Y., Ipoola, IBB, Abdulsalami who were the soldiers they hurled from Lagos to quarter at Topo Island in Badagry and why, including those who had their barracks at Cappa at the Nigerian Army Rehabilitation Centre, Oshodi in Lagos which also served as skills training centre for the about-to-be discharged military personnel from the 70s till the time of this writer’s leaving the shores of Nigeria in 2003 for England?

Can all the afore-mentioned Generals face the nation and tell the Nigerian people what led to the ‘uprooting’ from Lagos of this category of soldiers in the 70s to Topo Island in Badagry, Lagos, most probably against the wishes of most of them?

Also, why, up till now there are still some Nigerians who fought on the side of Biafra now in their late 70s, 80s and 90s have not been paid their entitlements including pensions, when the principal antagonist, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu had had his rank restored and all his entitlements paid to him before his death in the United Kingdom in 2011, including giving him a full military honour and parade in Abuja before his interment at his home town in Nnewi?

Yet General Gowon had mouthed abroad his pet slogans of NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISHED, and the three “Rs” - Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Reconciliation to whosoever may care to lend him their ears!

Now can my colleagues in Nigeria fish out all the war wounded in all the nooks and crannies of Nigeria and do a documentary on them and invite all the commercial separatists, their financiers and behind the scenes drummers to watch?

Again, I should like to make it known to all my compatriots, home and abroad that war is not about the FOOD IS READY invitation by the local food vendors to hungry Nigerians, nor is it about ALL THINGS ARE YOURS, but war, and it is nothing else, but what it has been called from time immemorial – war, and nothing else, but war. So, the Yoruba Alariwo Igehinadu Troupe excitedly mouthing Yoruba Nation all over the place as led by its artistic director, that IMPETUOUS OKONKWO, Igboho X and the cowardly behind-the-scene and twilight messiah, Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, who no doubt has exploited and cheated on our Nigeria to advance himself and ‘settle’ members of his family must do well to count the cost, because they are not about to share a piece of cake or chocolate in their clamour for Yoruba Nation nor throw okuta kinkini (pebbles) to disperse bees in the beehive, but they are about to start a war with the people of Nigeria, such as they neither have the resources nor the weaponry to prosecute/execute to a finish because the war for which they are excitedly dragging idle Nigerian youth of the Yoruba ethnic nationality into will be a fight to a finish. Here is a historian without a simple sense of history!

Also, it will be a different war in that the outcome this time round would be cultural/population dilution and displacement of the indigenous Ndigbo and Yourbas from their current POLIGEOZONES just as the Arabs had done to all they had conquered across centuries – and the Yorubas and Ndigbo need to study the histories of North Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean to understand the colour of the WAR NEXT TIME!

Finally, it is this writer’s sincere wish and prayer that all the voices of reason around IMPETUOUS OKONKWO must now begin to whisper into his two-two ears that the props on which he has been leaning are already falling off – and he is now at a point when he will soon learn the hardest way that he and his financiers, backers and his street supporters are not above the law after all!

HYPOTHESIS – WHY ARE THEY RISKING THEIR LIVES AND LABOURING IN VAIN FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL DESPERADOES AND THE POLITICAL OFFICIALS IN THEIR GEOPOLIZONES?

But let us for the sake of deceiving ourselves conclude that the Yorubatopia vision/dream would be realizable sometime, some day. The question then is who will become the President/Prime Minister/Regional Governor-General of the Yoruba Nation or O’odua Republic? Igboho X?

Although a mere hypothesis, in the realizability of such a separate state independent of the current arrangement of the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, an Igboho X would not even get a job as a driver or a cleaner because the cowardly Yoruba elites hiding now in their palaces/mansions/castles and beating the drums of wars and using Igboho X’s activities as bargaining chips for their presidential ambitions and other offices at the Centre, both at home and in Nigeria would then unashamedly come out of their hideouts tell Igboho X and his equally irascible ilk that they are not sophisticated enough by virtue of their birth and education – and some maniacs and psychopaths out there would remind the motor park touts and agbegilodos and all posing now as Bolekaja messiahs that they were former Ministers, their fathers moved the motion for Nigerian independence, now to them, former Republic, and they they attended Oxbridge and such other Ivy League universities in and around the globe – and more importantly that they are blue-blooded – of aristocratic families!

Under the context of this hypothesis, what then would be Igboho X’s educational and social credentials? Thus, with this likely scenario in place, the question then is, why is Igboho X wasting his time and labouring in vain – for a short-lived fame or the pecuniary gains he seems to be enjoying now alongside the unmerited headlines from the PARAPO/OWAMBE/BOURDILLON/BULLION MEDIA?

COLONIAL EDUCATION AND HEREDITARY PRIVILEGE IN NIGERIA…A BRIEF INSIGHT INTO HOW NIGERIA WORKS FOR ALL THE MOTOR MARK MESSIAHS

And it does look in all the POLIGEOZONES, where touts and young men and women without the slightest simple sense are excitedly campaigning and clamouring for break-away states from the mother country – the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is equally an incontrovertible truth that a similar fate awaits all of them in the events of their GEOPOLIZONES separating from our Nigeria!

Okonkwo of Igboho would have my unparalleled pity if by now he does not yet know all forms of appointments in all Nigeria, particularly in his SW POLIGEOZONE are by hereditary privilege:

Here is the list from time immemorial – the Awolowos, the Akintolas, the Adelabus, the Adelakuns, the Iges, the Obasanjos, the Ajasins, the Adesanyas, the Ogunsanyas, the Soyinkas, (etc.,), and in recent times, the Tinubus with all their Iya/Baba Oloja-Mars/Jupiter/Mercury/Antarctica/Sun/Moon/Stars/Bullion/Bourdillon, etc, etc. And stretching our collective gaze to the neighbouring NOKBEKWARA, particularly, Kwara State, the Jarakis (Sarakis) have monopolised and colonized all Kwara since nineteen-kirididi!

And in just a matter of time, the Super Mama-Oloja-General of the Federation will say to the messiah of Igboho: YUA A THUG!

DADDY G.O., MAKE YOU TAKE THIS YOUR DAUGHTER OUT OF HUMAN SPACES-O!

“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.”

  • Ephesians 4:29:

Source of video: Commotion as Remi Tinubu calls woman 'thug' (thecable.ng)

But who will the Yorubas tell their daughters to be like: Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo or Remi Tinubu?

Remember her: The Sage’s JEWEL OF INESTIMABLE VALUE.

Yet Remi Tinubu is a Pastor…and…and…and of THE REDDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD!

Daddy G.O., oy eke ba this your WOMAN OF GOD soro la ti ma conduct ara re in the public-o, not as a counterfeit pastor, but as a woman of God.

Anyway, before the woman of god tell me pe I be thug, make I kuku ma shut of my mouth!

THE RUNNING MOUTH OF NIGERIA’S ‘NEXT’ FIRST LADY AND THE TRIALS OFJAGABAN  

But Jagaban-o, make you come loaded to the launching of my three books titled:

  • OLUREMI TINUBU: THE MAKING OF A TIGRESS,
  • REMI TINUBU: THE MAKING OF THE TIGRESS OF BOURDILLON
  • THE TIGRESS OF BOURDILLON.

Venue:  At Pastor Remi Tinubu’s Parish – ZOO PARISH wey dey that popular K-Junction at the CROSSROADS!

Ejo wo, o ye ke invite Aliko, Otedola, Jimoh, Adenuga and that Ede Boy wey no know wetin to do with money.

Come one, come all.

Minimum acceptable donations for these my three-three books na ten trillion pounds and if you no get dis kind money stay away for ya own sake because you are automatically a “THUG” if you show face.

My book launch, not for small boys and girls. BE WARNED ‘cos the bouncers at the gate – wan wicked gan ni, ati aja wan - wan gbo no gidi gidi gan ni!

Shay Her Excellency go refer to de woman as a “thug” at the next Presidential Election, if she see am holding voter’s card with her ko ro ko ro eyes?

Or she go say to de woman in her characteristic election statement: “You be Igbo person…you dis okoro shah…?”

Once again, a word is enough for the wise.

NEITHER IGBOTOPIA NOR YORUBATOPIA NOR FULANI/HAUSA SUPREMACY - UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL: COUNTER NARRATIVES AGANST THE DING-DONG SONGS OF THE SECCESSIONIST CICADAS

***Please take a pause and listen – source: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

  1. Better together.
  2. Better together rather than better apart.
  3. Confluenced till the end of the Age.
  4. Emulate Rivers Niger and Benue.
  5. Let us live together in peace and harmony like the Niger and Benue!
  6. Go to Lokoja.
  7. Let there be love shared nationwide!
  8. Let there be love shared in this place.
  9. Let there be love shared in this nation.
  10. Let there be love shared in every little corner of Nigeria.
  11. Let there be love shared all over Nigeria.
  12. Together in love
  13. Nigerian and Proud.
  14. African and Proud.
  15. Nigeria for Nigerians
  16. Every Nigerian matters.
  17. North, South don’t matter, but Nigeria!
  18. North, South don’t matter, but ONE Nigeria.
  19. All Nigerians matter.
  20. This is our country.
  21. If you can separate the Niger from the Benue.
  22. Make Nigeria ONE.
  23. Make Nigeria ONE again!
  24. Keep Nigeria one, keep Africa one and keep one humanity.
  25. One Nigeria, one Africa, One humanity
  26. One Nigeria, one Africa, one world.
  27. Keep Nigeria one, in one Africa and in one world!
  28. Keep Nigeria united.
  29. Nigeria unites.
  30. Unite, Nigeria.
  31. Unite Nigeria.
  32. Unite Nigeria now.
  33. Whenever you can separate river Niger from river Benue…
  34. One country, one people, one God
  35. Nigeria ONE
  36. We be brothers.
  37. We be sisters.
  38. We be brothers & sisters.
  39. We be ONE people.
  40. We be ONE, shed no blood.
  41. We be brothers, we be sisters, shed no blood.
  42. We be brothers and sisters.
  43. This is our land.
  44. Let our love for Nigeria be shared abroad in every Nigerian heart!
  45. Together in live and let live Nigeria.
  46. Onward with one Nigeria (OWON)
  47. Keep Nigeria together no matter what!
  48. One Nigeria for all Nigerians.
  49. There’s still land in Antarctica.
  50. Self-determination within ONE Nigeria, okay.
  51. Self-determination within ONE Nigeria, perfect!
  52. Self-determination within corporate Nigeria, best!
  53. Self-determination within corporate Nigeria, better.
  54. Not bitterness, but love.
  55. Not bitterness, but neighbourliness.
  56. Not separation, but unity.
  57. Not secession, but togetherness.
  58. Not war, but jaw-jaw.
  59. Not violence, but dialogue.
  60. Let us talk.
  61. Not AK-47, but olive branch!
  62. Not separation, but togetherness.
  63. Not a break-up but a build up!
  64. Please don’t let no anything happen to Nigeria (a variant of Nigerian English – double negative).
  65. One God for all humanity, One Nigeria for all Nigerians.
  66. Carry on with one Nigeria (COWON)
  67. Mr President, carry go with one Nigeria.
  68. Now is the time to celebrate our diversity.
  69. Celebrating our diversity in a Nigeria where every Nigerian matters.
  70. Die the secessionists’ tornadoes!
  71. There is no nothing to worry about, Nigeria will not break-up!
  72. Nigeria will not break-up!
  73. Please don’t let no nothing happen to Nigeria.
  74. Please don’t let anything happen to Nigeria.
  75. Please ensure nothing happens to Nigeria.
  76. Please do ensure nothing happens to Nigeria.
  77. Please do ensure nothing-nothing befalls Nigeria.
  78. Please do ensure nothing happens to our Nigeria.
  79. Please ensure Nigeria is ONE.
  80. Please do ensure Nigeria is ONE.
  81. ONE FOREVER
  82. We will remain one forever.
  83. We should be one.
  84. We are one.
  85. We shall remain one forever.
  86. We shall be ONE forever.
  87. Please ensure Nigeria is kept one.
  88. Secession: Die the Matter!
  89. Secession? Who sai? I begi, die the matter!
  90. Diversity, our blessings
  91. Diversity, our beauty
  92. Diversity, our greatness
  93. Diversity, our strength!
  94. Our diversity is our strength.
  95. Our diversity is our greatness.
  96. Our diversity is our beauty.
  97. Our diversity, our togetherness
  98. Our diversity is our togetherness.
  99. Diversity is beautiful.
  100. Joined and bound together in this journey of nation building.
  101. Bound together even in our diversity.
  102. Diverse, yet ONE!
  103. One nation, one people
  104. One nation bound in unity and love.
  105. Diverse but united
  106. Different but one
  107. One nation, diverse people, but one destiny.
  108. Bound to love.
  109. Bound in love.
  110. Diversity is love and love is diversity.
  111. Love is diversity.
  112. Nigeria is love.
  113. I’M ON THE SIDE OF ONE NIGERIA.
  114. We shall overcome.
  115. We are Nigerians and we shall arrive very soon on eagle’s wings.
  116. Nigeria shall be free.
  117. Nigeria shall prevail.
  118. Let us take off and fly as one Nigeria.
  119. Soaring together as ONE on eagle’s wings.
  120. Our dream of ONE Nigeria is non-negotiable.
  121. We are Nigerians and conscientious.
  122. We are Nigerians and loving.
  123. Lovely ONE NIGERIA!
  124. Up Nigeria!
  125. Women 4 Nigeria
  126. Men 4 Nigeria
  127. Boys 4 Nigeria
  128. Girls 4 Nigeria
  129. Youth 4 Nigeria
  130. Teens 4 Nigeria
  131. Young adults 4 Nigeria.
  132. Police 4 Nigeria.
  133. Military 4 Nigeria
  134. Ex-service men and women 4 Nigeria!
  135. NURTW 4 Nigeria
  136. Students 4 Nigeria.
  137. Special Needs People 4 Nigeria.
  138. Pastors 4 Nigeria
  139. Imams 4 Nigeria
  140. Xtians 4 Nigeria
  141. Muslims 4 Nigeria
  142. Royal Fathers 4 Nigeria
  143. Mothers 4 Nigeria
  144. Fathers 4 Nigeria
  145. ONE NIGERIA NOW OR NEVER
  146. ONE NIGERIA FOREVER
  147. ONE NIGERIA TILL THE END OF THE AGE.
  148. Business + the Professions 4 Nigeria
  149. Ministers 4 Nigeria
  150. Teachers 4 Nigeria
  151. Artisans 4 Nigeria
  152. Celebrities 4 Nigeria
  153. I’m a celebrity, give me ONE Nigeria.
  154. Workers 4 Nigeria
  155. Let’s live together, work together and share together.
  156. Soaring together on eagle’s winds.
  157. We are Nigerians and we care.
  158. We are Nigerians and considerate.
  159. Ride on ONE Nigeria, forward ever and backward never!
  160. Let us work together to keep Nigeria together.
  161. In Nigeria, we don’t talk about North or South, but ONE NIGERIA
  162. Because of Nigeria we are!
  163. We are who we are because of Nigeria.
  164. Love is Nigeria.
  165. Nigerian till my last breath.
  166. Wao-o-o-o-o! Thank God, I’m a Nigerian.
  167. Nigerian till the grave.
  168. Go to Antarctica and acquire land.
  169. This is our land, go to Antarctica.
  170. Leave our land alone…go to Antarctica.
  171. Go and hoist your flag in Antarctica.
  172. Secessionists and Land grabbers…go and hoist your flags in Antarctica.
  173. Go to Antarctica!
  174. In Nigeria, we have many languages, but ONE!
  175. ONE language in Nigeria!
  176. Only ONE!
  177. Only ONE language!
  178. Only ONE language here!
  179. ONE is our ONLY language!
  180. Our language is ONE!
  181. We speak the ONE language in Nigeria.
  182. We speak ONE in Nigeria.
  183. We all speak ONE here!
  184. One! One! One Nigeria!
  185. Diverse but ONE
  186. One is our lingua franca!
  187. We are ONE people!
  188. We are ONE here!
  189. Many tongues but ONE language
  190. We speak ONE despite many tongues.
  191. Many tongues but ONE!
  192. ONE! ONE! ONE!
  193. Over 200 million but ONE!
  194. We are ONE people!
  195. We are ONE!
  196. ONE nation, ONE Government, ONE people
  197. One nation, one destiny
  198. One people, one country, one destiny.
  199. I’m a believer in the Nigerian dream and not a doubter.
  200. I’m a believer in the Nigerian project and not a doubter.
  201. One nation, one dream, one aspiration, one philosophy, one vision, one mission, one goal.
  202. ONE root.
  203. ONE Papa, ONE Mama!
  204. NIGERIA: ONE PEOPLE NATION.
  205. NIGERIA: A ONE PEOPLE LANGUAGE
  206. NIGERIA: A ONE PEOPLE CULTURE.
  207. One Papa, one Mama, One Nigeria!
  208. Many but ONE!
  209. Multitude of nations, but one.
  210. Separatists and all with expansionist agenda should go and acquire land in Antarctica!
  211. Secessionists and land grabbers: GO TO ANTARTICA!
  212. Nigeria belongs to Nigerians…GO TO ANTARTICA
  213. So, you want to secede from Nigeria? Then go to Antarctica.
  214. ONE TOGETHER.
  215. ONE FOREVER.
  216. Nigerian till six feet!
  217. How to be a Nigerian? Be a Nigerian.
  218. You better be a Nigerian or be nothing at all.
  219. Not a Nigerian? Then you are without a country to call your own.
  220. There is no reason for me not to be a Nigerian!
  221. Bound to peace and unity.
  222. I LOVE NIGERIA
  223. I BELIEVE IN NIGERIA
  224. I BELIEVE IN ONE NIGERIA
  225. I LOVE ONE NIGERIA
  226. I HAVE FAITH IN ONE NIGERIA
  227. MY CONFIDENCE IN ONE NIGERIA
  228. I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN ONE NIGERIA.
  229. Nigeria will rise again.
  230. Nigeria will fly again.
  231. Nigeria will soar again!
  232. Nigeria will resurrect again.
  233. Nigeria is coming, world!
  234. Nigeria is coming, people.
  235. All eyes on Nigeria.
  236. Nigeria: A city set on a hill.
  237. Nigeria: A city set on a hill to behold.
  238. Tomorrow is Nigeria.
  239. Nigeria is the future.
  240. The future is Nigeria.
  241. Africa is the future.
  242. Nigeria will rise again!
  243. I AM A NIGERIAN
  244. NIGERIA FOREVER
  245. NIGERIAN FOREVER!
  246. I AM A BONAFIDE NIGERIAN.
  247. WE SHALL OVERCOME
  248. WE SHALL PREVAIL
  249. WE SHALL PERSIST, WE SHALL PERSEVERE AND WE SHALL ENDURE!
  250. PATIENCE, PERSEVERANCE, ENDURANCE, LONG SUFFERING!
  251. NIGERIAN, NOT A TENANT
  252. NIGERIAN AND A CITIZEN!
  253. WE ARE ALL CITIZENS AND NO TENANT HERE.
  254. NO QUIT NOTICE, I’M A CITIZEN
  255. Nigeria is now.
  256. One Nigeria, if not now, when?
  257. ONE NIGERIA NOW OR NEVER!
  258. ONE NIGERIA FOREVER.
  259. Arise, Nigeria.
  260. Nigeria: O country of God.
  261. Nigeriatopia and not Igbotopia or Yorubatopia or Fulani/Hausa supremacy!
  262. Neither Igbotopia nor Yourbatopia nor Fulani/Hausa supremacy.
  263. Don’t believe in Nigerian politicians but believe in Nigeria.
  264. One Nigeria, one people, one destiny.
  265. Nigeria: God’s beloved nation.
  266. Nigeria na our Papa land.
  267. Come and let us build together.
  268. Come and let us rebuild our Nigeria together.
  269. Come and let us rebuild Nigeria together.
  270. Now is the time to rebuild Nigeria.
  271. Let us rebuild our Nigeria together.
  272. Now is the time for the Nigerian renaissance.
  273. The Nigerian renaissance is now!
  274. Oneness and togetherness.
  275. Let us make Nigeria one.
  276. Fly Nigeria fly.
  277. Soar Nigeria soar.
  278. Fly high one Nigeria.
  279. Higher, Nigeria!
  280. Higher one Nigeria!
  281. Let us join hands to make Nigeria one.
  282. Let’s come together and make Nigeria one.
  283. Let’s get together and make Nigeria one.
  284. Oneness and togetherness move the mountain.
  285. Oneness and togetherness remove obstacles.
  286. Oneness and togetherness overcome obstacles.
  287. Oneness and togetherness cast the mountain into the sea.
  288. Oneness and togetherness into the sea cast the mountain.
  289. Not a time to stand alone, but together.
  290. Come, let us build together.
  291. Let’s build together.
  292. Let’s build Nigeria together.
  293. Let’s build our Nigeria together.
  294. Let’s us build our country together.
  295. Now is the time to join hands together and build Nigeria together.
  296. Bound to Nigeria, Africa, and the world.
  297. Country people: Make una die secession and separation-o!
  298. Country people: Make we come together, stay together, work together, and move Nigeria forward.
  299. Separatists, I beg park!
  300. Separatists, I beg pack and go!
  301. Secessionists, I beg park!
  302. Commercial separatists, I beg carry your wahala
  303. Commercial secessionists, I beg carry your wahala comot!
  304. I love Nigeria, true, true.
  305. Move on with one Nigeria (MOWON)
  306. Push on with one Nigeria (POWON).
  307. Push up with one Nigeria (PUWON).
  308. Onward with one Nigeria (OWON)
  309. Ride on one Nigeria (ROON).
  310. Drive on, one Nigeria (DOON).
  311. Nigeria expects.
  312. Forward with one Nigeria (FWON).
  313. Keep on keeping on with one Nigeria.
  314. Common, Nigeria.
  315. Common, one Nigeria.
  316. One Nigeria is enough 4 all Nigerians.
  317. One Nigeria is sufficient 4 all Nigerians.
  318. Nigeria: Land of power and glory.
  319. Nigeria: Land of friendliness and neighbourliness.
  320. Nigeria: Land of excellent glory.
  321. Nigeria, my Nigeria.
  322. Nigeria, our Nigeria.
  323. Nigeria: The peaceful land.
  324. Nigeria: The house of peace.
  325. Let us all save Nigeria.
  326. What time is it Nigeria? Time to unite, of course!
  327. What time is it Nigerians? Time to unite!
  328. What time is it now people? Time to unite!
  329. Let us all save our Nigeria.
  330. Let us all come together and set Nigeria free!
  331. Let us unite and move Nigeria forward.
  332. Let us all unite and move Nigeria to the next level.
  333. Let every Nigerian come together and take Nigeria to a greater height.
  334. Let all Nigerians unite and take Nigeria to a greater level.
  335. Let us all come together and free Nigeria.
  336. Let all Nigerians come together and make Nigeria great again!
  337. Keep Nigeria one!
  338. Let us all come together and build a better Nigeria.
  339. Let us come together, unite and make Nigeria better.
  340. Let us all come together and free our Nigeria.
  341. Let us all come together and free our country.
  342. Nigeria is not a no man’s land, but the Antarctica looks more like it.
  343. Nigeria will rule the world.
  344. Nigeria will lead the world.
  345. Nigeria will lead Africa again!
  346. The giant of Africa will rise again!
  347. Weep not, Nigerians, the giant of Africa will lead Africa again.
  348. Weep not Africans, your giant will rise again.
  349. Weep not Africa, the giant of Africa will rise again.
  350. Weep not Africa, the giant will rise again.
  351. This giant will rise again.
  352. Someday, Nigeria will take off and soar.
  353. Nigeria will soon take off and soar!
  354. Peoples of the world: Nigeria is coming!
  355. Peoples of the world: Nigeria is on the way!
  356. Hello Nigerians: more unites us than the few that divides us.
  357. We ain’t gonna let anyone divide us.
  358. Nigeria will teach the world all things.
  359. Nigeria shall surpass the world in per capita income.
  360. Out of Nigeria, always something new!
  361. Out of Nigeria, always something unique.
  362. Out of Nigeria, always something beautiful.
  363. Out of Nigeria, always something great.
  364. Out of Nigeria, always something wonderful.
  365. Out of Nigeria, always something wao-o-o-o-o-!
  366. Out of Nigeria, always something miraculous.
  367. Out of Nigeria, always something marvellous.
  368. Out of Nigeria, always something glorious.
  369. Out of Nigeria, always something amazing.
  370. Out of Nigeria, always something terrific.
  371. Out of Nigeria, always something graceful.
  372. Out of Nigeria, always something loving.
  373. Out of Nigeria, always something lovely.
  374. Out of Nigeria, always something majestic.
  375. Pray for the peace of Nigeria.
  376. Pray for Nigeria.
  377. Let us pray for Nigeria.
  378. Come, let us be on our knees for Nigeria.
  379. Come, let us be on our knees for our Nigeria.
  380. Let’s pray for our Nigeria.
  381. Pray for the glory of Nigeria to return.
  382. Nigerians: We will smile again!
  383. Fellow Nigerians: We shall smile again!
  384. Nigeria: The land of glory.
  385. Nigeria: The glorious land.
  386. Nigeria: The delightful land.
  387. Nigeria: The glory land.
  388. The great toast: To the unity of Nigeria!
  389. The great toast: To the wholeness of Nigeria!
  390. The great toast: To the health of Nigeria!
  391. The great toast: To the greatness of Nigeria!
  392. The great toast: To the peace of Nigeria!
  393. The great toast: To the success of our Nigeria!
  394. The great toast: To the wholeness of our Nigeria!
  395. The great toast: To the strength of our Nigeria!
  396. The great toast: To the great Nigerian spirit!
  397. The great toast: To the brotherhood of our Nigeria!
  398. Fellow Nigerians, let us appeal to the ties that bind!
  399. Nigeria: The ties that bind.
  400. Fellow Nigerians: Come, let us celebrate our diversity.
  401. My dear Nigerians: Let us love our fellow Nigerians as ourselves.
  402. United we stand, divided we fall.
  403. Stronger together.
  404. Stronger as one.
  405. Stronger as one indivisible and indissoluble entity.
  406. The ties that bind, the diversity that unites.
  407. The ties that bind, the diversity that works.
  408. The ties that bind, the diversity that works for all.
  409. Unite and rule.
  410. The ties that bind, the diversity that celebrates.
  411. AMALGAMATION: FOR BETTER FOR WORSE, FOR BETTER FOR BEST.
  412. OUR UNION: FOR BETTER FOR WORSE, FOR BETTER FOR BEST.
  413. Best together.
  414. The ties that bind, the diversity that delivers.
  415. The ties that bind, the diversity that is sensitive.
  416. The ties that bind, the diversity that is culturally sensitive.
  417. FOREVER TOGETHER.
  418. FOREVER ONE.
  419. FOREVER UNITED.
  420. FOREVER TOGETHER, NIGERIANS.
  421. The binding ties…strength in diversity.
  422. Strength in diversity and the binding ties.
  423. Nigeria: Strength in diversity and the binding ties.
  424. Stronger in our diversity.
  425. Stronger when together.
  426. Stronger together
  427. Stronger when united.
  428. Stronger when together and stronger when united.
  429. The choice before the nation now is either true Federalism or Confederation and certainly not scatteration!
  430. THIS HOUSE IS OUR HOUSE, THIS COUNTRY IS OUR COUNTRY, THIS NATION IS OUR NATION, OUR NIGERIA IS OUR NIGERIA, NOT THEIR NIGERIA...THEREFORE, LET US JOIN HANDS TO RECREATE IT TO FIT THE NIGERIA OF OUR DREAM, LET US REMAKE IT, LET US JOIN HANDS TO MAKE IT GREAT AGAIN.
  431. Unity is strength.
  432. Union is strength.
  433. Togetherness is strength.
  434. We shall be fine again.
  435. Every Nigerian shall be fine again.
  436. Nigeria shall be great again.
  437. Our Nigeria shall be great
  438. E go better!
  439. E go better-o!
  440. Nigeria go better.
  441. Nigeria go better for all we Nigerians!
  442. Naija go better!
  443. Naija go better-o.
  444. Fellow Nigerians: E go better-o!
  445. Our Naija go better-o!
  446. Country people: We country go better-o!
  447. Country people: We Nigeria go better-o!
  448. Nigerians: E go better-o!
  449. Pray for the peace and Unity of Nigeria.

FIGHTING BACK TO RECLAIM OUR COUNTRY…THE NIGERIAN ACTION PLAN (NAP)

"This nation asks for action, and action now."

         - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In order to solidarize with Nigeria as their expression of ONE NIGERIA, all lovers and believers in Nigeria could make brooches, T-shirts, flags, cups, mugs, Fez caps, etc, to express all these or a similar other – in placards, hoist and display them on your vehicles, bikes (Okada), bicycles, scooters, tricycles (Keke Marwa), windows, rooftops, front of cars/vehicles, trucks, wheel barrows, in your houses, schools, colleges, universities, in the sky, in churches/mosques, workplaces, parade grounds, parks, NASS complex, etc, etc.

SECCESSION AND THEIR BEHIND THE SCENE DRUMMERS: BUT WHERE ARE THE ELDERS, THE POLITICAL CLASS AND THE ELITES?

***Please take a pause and listen – source: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

  • Does not the fact that the cry of secession is coming from only the Nigerian youths, who virtually are all jobless, say something to the Nigerian authorities and to other Nigerians?
  • And to the youth themselves, does not the fact that the real secessionist apostles, who of course, are the ones hiding behind the scene, in the comfort of their homes – mansions and castles or abroad with members of their families, go to show the youths on the field demanding secession that these old, retired and tired elders, the political, business classes and the professions and some traditional rulers behaving like common rascals are merely taking advantage of them and exploiting their gullibility after they had used the same NIGERIA to advance in life, themselves and their children/wards most of who live outside the country?
  • Finally, think young Nigerians! Young Nigerians, think, and again, I say: think!
  • Don’t allow yourself to be used and get killed by the anti-Nigeria elements who take delights in pushing other people’s children/wards, especially the children of the poor and hapless Nigerians into the line of fire in order to get killed!
  • Let all these cowards and pleasure lovers come out to the frontline and lead from the front together with members of their families, their friends, and cronies, if really, they are serious about breaking up our Nigeria.
  • Are these Presidential desperadoes not now retreating “tongue-tied in their guiltiness” because they have perceived the activities of their hollering mobs shouting - YORUBA NATION: ORO DIE THE MATTER KO-O could jeopardise their chances at the centre or make some of them have their case files with the EFCC and ICPC dusted once more?

THIS IS OUR LAND:

  • ONE COUNTRY,
  • ONE PEOPLE

       &

  • ONE DESTINY -
  • UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED, WE FALL

A WARNING TO ALL INSURRRECTIONISTS

All seeking to break up Nigeria are to be hereby made aware that the whole of the landmass totalling 923, 769 km (356, 669 sq. miles, including water, 1.4% belong to not any ethnic nationalities, but to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, nor does it belong to any of all those clamouring or agitating for independent states different to the natural owner of the said land mass, holding it in trust for all the diverse nationalities, herein known, called and referred to as the people/s of Nigeria or the Nigerian people.

Area

• Total

923,769 km2 (356,669 sq mi) (32nd)

• Water (%)

1.4

Source: Nigeria - Wikipedia.

SURRENDER YOUR NIGERIAN PASSPORTS AND GO TO ANTARCTICA IF YOU REALLY WANT TO SECCEDE FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA

Having so stated the utmost truism as above, whilst this writer will never ever begrudge anyone wanting a separate state or republic from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, excepting an arrangement which should be arrived at by the people of Nigeria either via a referendum or an Act of Parliament or by an Executive Order or by Decree such as would result in an arrangement within corporate Nigeria akin to the British model of 4-in-1 country or such other as would beget more countries in one as may be agreed by the people of Nigeria by the legal instruments above mentioned, are hereby and as a matter of very strong warning advised to go and acquire expanse of land or territories in that NO MAN’S LAND, even ANTARTICA as they may deem fit and sufficient for their ignominious and treasonable plot or henceforth risk war as their ongoing fury, nuisances and absurd infantilism, which undoubtedly have been heating up the polity with the resultant unparalleled anarchy into which Nigeria has been plunged causing avoidable bloodshed, with number of deaths now in thousands upon thousands-thousands, and need it be stressed inter alia that their treachery and unNigerian activities and engagements, coupled with their bestial and monstrous inhumanity to the Nigerian people are in the first instance, treasonous where there be an active and functional Government in place.

A VERY STRONG WARNING TO SECCESSIONISTS: STAY OUT OF OGOJA AND THE ENTIRE SOUTH SOUTH…WE ARE NIGERIANS AND NOT BIAFRANS!

And as a matter of utmost urgency and a very strong warning, all insurrectionists in the South Eastern axis/POLIGEOZONE, must whilst in their deep state of incurable lunacy and psychopathy, prowl about the place like the savage Babylonians desperate for territorial acquisition to further their ignominious expansionist agenda and subsequent annexation to the land of the donkeys in far of East, must steer clear of OGOJA, and by extension, the whole South South which are a senatorial district and a POLIGEOZONE within the geographic Nigeria!

But what really the Yorubas want – Yoruba Nation within corporate Nigeria – THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA as Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) or Yoruba Nation separate in all sense of the word and unattached in any least way to the Nigerian state?

YE AND THY OPPONENTS

Be not up in arms with staves, AK-47, blades, knives, machetes, spears, arrows and daggers against all who disagree or oppose or fail to reason your way but offer forth a counter-narrative/argument that surpasses their stance – convincing in every respect of the word, persuasive and of superior worth.

THE NEW PLEDGE & THE OATH OF REDEDICATION

I pledge, rededicate, and recommit myself

                           to Nigeria and Nigerianism

And I promise that I will not support,

encourage, promote its breakup,

or join any anti-Nigeria elements nor campaigns,

to advance secession in the body politic of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

So, help me God.

MY REDICATION AND MY PLEDGE TO OUR NIGERIA

NIGERIA: WORK IN PROGRESS

Lord God Almighty, please divine for me the future concerning my relationship with Nigeria and let me know ahead of time if there's ever going to be a time and day in which for one reason or another I will deny Nigeria, disbelief and give up on her, and if there's to be such a time and day - then don't let me live to see them, as I'm resolved more than ever before to believe in, and love Nigeria eternally, and as the trumpet sounds enquiring: who's on the side of Nigeria? Without hesitation, I reiterate my earlier pledge announcing again that I'm on Nigeria's side, and having so rededicated myself to her and I once more recommit myself to the unfinished work, even as I proclaim to my fellow Nigerians, the world and posterity that as for me and my house, we 'll serve Nigeria and do our utmost duty to her, the world and all of humanity. So, help me God.

FAMILY VERSION

THE NEW PLEDGE & THE OATH OF REDEDICATION

I pledge, rededicate and recommit myself and my house

                           to Nigeria and Nigerianism

And we promise that we will not support,

encourage, promote its break-up,

or join any anti-Nigeria elements nor campaigns,

to advance secession.

So, help us God.

ONE NIGERIA RALLY/PARADE:

NATIONWIDE REDEDICATION/RE-COMMITMENT AND RALLIES/PARADE IN SUPPORT OF ONE NIGERIA

***Please take a pause and listen – source: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

Theme: I am for ONE Nigeria and living together as ONE people.

The Presidency, Federal Government, ministries, MDAs, in fact, the central and states civil service should kick-start the rededication/recommitment rally at the Eagles Square or the national stadium with the President, VP, ministers, Head of Service, IGP and traditional rulers present, whilst the OATH of rededication/recommitment is led by the Chief Justice of the Federation. All the civil servants to whom this oath will be administered are to raise up their hands during the oath taking.

States civil service can hold theirs at stadia or their parade grounds.

The Apex Legislative Assembly should take their own OATH of rededication and commitment to ONE Nigeria jointly with the Senate President leading/administering the oath to all the Senators, Federal Legislators.

STATES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS

All the 36 states and the 774 LGAs should have their own OATH of rededication/recommitment to ONE Nigeria administered to their states’ civil servants by the Chief Judges of their states, whilst the LG chairmen/chairpersons can do this to their staff and indigenes of the LGAs or each council area can invite a prominent SAN who is from that Council Area to administer the OATH of rededication/recommitment.

As for the military, the police and the paramilitary, each Service Chief can administer the OATH of rededication/recommitment to their officers and men, whilst the Commandant/Comptroller-General of each para-military organization admit their own OATH of rededication/recommitment to their personnel.

The Labour Union, NURTW, universities, colleges, primary/kindergarten/nursery, market women should have their own OATH of rededication/recommitment to their members/students by their Presidents/heads/Vcs/Principals/Head Teachers, etc.

Families – a sub-unit of the nation should equally administer this OATH of rededication/recommitment to all their households as well as churches/mosques to their congregation/flocks/members by the senior pastors/imams. Similarly, every office/industry/factory/workplace must equally have the OATH of rededication/recommitment to ONE Nigeria by the CEOs/MDs of such companies/workplaces, etc.

CELEBRITIES

All the country’s celebrities should be in the lead for this national campaign for ONE Nigeria – to keep Nigeria one by mounting counter-offensive narrative against secession to rid the satanic forces of darkness, collecting money from home and abroad to break-up our country. They can also create and dedicate a website for the purpose, whereupon all the Nigerian celebrities, home and abroad can pledge their loyalty to ONE NIGERIA, in addition to signing the OATH of rededication/recommitment to ONE Nigeria.

MUSICIANS AND SINGERS FOR I’M FOR ONE NIGERIA RALLY/PARADE

Come out en masse to support the this proposed ONE NIGERIA PROJECT/RALLY by holding musical concerts/rallies at the FCT, state capitals, cities, towns, villages in all the 774 Local Government Areas.

Area Fada can organise his Okada Confraternity and ride round Abuja, Capital cities, cities, towns, and villages in Nigeria.

Also, elite bikers can do same together with Charly Boy and his Gang, so those of us who still believe in Nigeria can save our country from the hands of Secession Evangelists/Apostles, for as far as this writer is concerned, all befalling Nigeria now are mere shadows and water under the bridge.

All this shall pass, and we shall someday record this very ugliness for our children or rather tell them about it – and about this time, it shall verily, verily be said: …AND IT CAME TO PASS

But why should Nigerians give Rehoboam Muhammadu Buhari and his satanic agents the glory instead of giving our glory to God for giving us a GREAT and BEAUTIFUL country like Nigeria?

As a matter of fact, Muhammadu Buhari and his APC-led satanic Government are mere mists and shadows who cannot stand the coming glory and light from the EXCELLENT GLORY, and for him and his government, here then is the message of the Lord to him and his scopophilic agents:

Muhammadu Buhari without solutions to the myriads of Nigeria’s woes…overwhelmed, confused, helpless, spent and finished!

Thou despicable Nebuchadnezzar, all Nigerians from this Day of the Lord, bid thee and thy fellow blood-thirsty and mindless-plundering Ishmaelites an everlasting goodbye and good night. May your likes never resurface in our shores and in the history of the House of Nigeria anymore.

Thus says the God of Nigeria: “the reign of this Nebuchadnezzar and his Government is brought to a final close. But the House of Nigeria must tarry on the Lord for three days, praying and fasting, and thereafter, come to the Lord for a Thanksgiving.”

CALLING ON ALL FORMER PRESIDENTS AND RETIRED GENERALS, PARTICULARLY ALL THOSE MILITARY OFFICERS STILL ALIVE WHO FOUGHT DURING THE CIVIL WAR TO TAKE THEIR COUNTRY BACK FROM THE FORCES OF DARKNESS

***Please take a pause and listen – source: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

Fall in! Fall in! Fall in! General Yakubu Gowon, General Olusegun Obasanjo, General Yakubu Danjuma, General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Babangida, General Ipoola Alani AKinrinade, General Abdulslami Abubakar, General David Jemibewon, General Godwin Alabi – Isama, General Oladipo Diya, Jerry Boy, General Anthony Ukpo, General Alechenu Mark, General Ishola Williams, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, His Excellency, Ernest Shonekan, including all traditional rulers, other retired military and police officers, retired senior servants, etc, etc:

Pray thee: Is this the Nigeria of your dream?

THEIR EXCELLENCIES AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA…MY WAKE-UP CALL TO GENERATION ZERO YOUTH (GZY)

***This House has collapsed…even the House of Nigeria.

  • And my questions to you all, Excellencies is: why did you all sacrifice your youth?
  • Also, is this the Nigeria of your dream?
  • Honestly speaking, is this your Nigeria, Excellencies?
  • Is this the Nigeria you all fought to keep together?
  • Excellencies, behold your Nigeria lieth right now in an A & E Ward, totally paralysed and hoping blood donors would come quickly!

All those who did not enjoy their youth or pass through the natural process of youth growth and development, but instead enlisted themselves to fight during the 30-month civil war to keep Nigeria ONE till today are the generation that this writer would like to refer to as THE GENERATION WITHOUT YOUTH – you all lost your youth to fight and keep Nigeria together and one, yet you are all playing the ostrich/bystander whilst commercial separatists have hijacked this same country of yours and now scattering and tearing every bit apart further and further!

All former Presidents and retired Generals/IGPs must meet immediately and issue a statement of rededication/recommitment to ONE Nigeria to be published in newspapers and magazines in Nigeria and broadcast throughout our country - this should be signed by all the living former Presidents/HsoS – Their Excellencies: General Yakubu Gowon, General Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Gbadamosi Banbangida, Chief Ernest Shonekan, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

The theme of the public statement of rededication/recommitment by their Excellencies could be: SECCESION? DON’T DO THAT! WE HELPED BUILT THIS HOUSE.

THE MEDIA IN TIMES OF NATIONAL EXIGENCY AND GRAVE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY AND CORPORATE EXISTENCE OF NIGERIA

THE MEDIA IN NIGERIA MUST WAKE UP. THEY MUST NOT BE CONDUCTING BUSINESS AS USUAL WHEN THE HOUSE OF NIGERIA, EVEN OUR NIGERIA, BURNS AND FACES DISINTEGRATION!

Please take a pause and listen: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

The press must mount up fierce editorial campaigns against secession, coupled with features and special reports on the 30-month civil war, and what wars have done to humanity – Europe’s two wars, erroneously tagged 1st and 2nd World Wars, and all the ongoing wars in our time!

The press in Nigeria can also carry out opinion poll on TO BE TOGETHER OR NOT; REFERENDUM OR NOT, but certainly not another so-called national conference, but ordinary national dialogue – okay!

This writer has not had the privilege of reading the 2014 Confab report, apart from reading bits and pieces here and there about it. And the fact that Muhammadu Buhari and his cohort have refused to use that report means it will be good for the majority of Nigerians, so let’s go for it!

CALLING ON ALL THE MILITARY FAMILIES IN NIGERIA, ESPECIALLY ALL THE NATION’S LIVING FIRST LADIES:

Their Excellencies should come together and issue press statement in support of ONE Nigeria.

It is an incontrovertible truth that some of our First Ladies, their husbands had paid the supreme sacrifice in serving our Nigeria, and they must not sit down or just dey siddon look like Lukman, and ‘tanda like Atanda, when commercial separatists are bent on pulling down the house of Nigeria, which their husbands had laboured for, served and even died in office!

Additionally, I am proposing to Their Excellencies to consider forming what I would here call: MILITARY FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (MFAN) or ASOCIATION OF MILITARY FAMILIES OF NIGERIA (AMFON) or NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY FAMILIES (NAMF)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MILITARY FAMILIES OF NIGERIA (NAMFON).

Please take a pause and listen: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

Their Excellencies, with due respect:

  • Dr (Mrs) Aisha Buhari
  • Mrs Victoria Agui-Ironsi
  • Mrs Victoria Gowon
  • Mrs Ajoke Muhammed
  • Mrs Bola Alice Obasanjo
  • Mrs Fati Lami Abubakar
  • Mrs Maryam Abacha
  • *Professor Uche Azikiwe
  • *Mrs Patience Jonathan
  • *Margaret Shonekan

*First Ladies and wives of civilian Presidents.

Also, it won’t be a bad idea for all children/persons from military families to come together and offer their own persuasive and superior argument regarding why Nigeria must remain one!

Mrs Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, over to you!

SOUNDS OF THE RUMBLING THUNDER…THUNDER IS COMING!

Come Thunder by Christopher Okigbo.

Enter, Christopher, the town crier: “NOW THAT triumphant march has entered the last street

                                 Corner,

Remember, O dancers, the thunder among the cloud…

Now that laughter, broken in two, hangs tremulous between

                                                                                      the teeth,

Remember, O dancers, the lightening beyond the earth…

The smell of blood already floats in the lavender-mist of the

                                                                                    afternoon;

The death sentence lies in ambush along the corridors of

                                                                                power;

And a great fearful thing already tugs at the cables of the open

                                                                                                 air,

A nebula immense and immeasurable, a night of deep waters –

An iron dream unnamed and unprintable, a path of stone.

The drowsy heads of the pods in barren farmlands witness it,

The homesteads abandoned in this country’s brush fire witness

                                                                                                 It:

Magic birds with the miracle of lightning flash on their

                                                                        Feathers…

The arrows of god trembles at the gates of light,

The drums of curfew pander to a dance of death;

And the secret thing in its heaving

Threatens with iron mask

The last lighted torch of the century…”

HURRAH FOR THUNDER

WHATEVER happened to the elephant –
Hurrah for Thunder –

The elephant, tetrarch of the jungle:
With a wave of the hand
He could pull four trees to the ground;
His four mortar legs pounded the earth:
Wherever they treaded,
The grass was forbidden to be there.

Alas! the elephant has fallen –
Hurrah for thunder –

But already the hunters are talking about pumpkins:
If they share the meat let them remember thunder.

The eye that looks down will surely see the nose;
The finger that fits should be used to pick the nose.

Today-for tomorrow, today becomes yesterday:

How many million promises can ever fill a basket...

If I don’t learn to shut my mouth I’ll soon go to hell,
I, Okigbo, town-crier/ together with my iron bell
.

 

  • ODEY KABO OBOYA ADUMA (Johnny Boy).

 

One of God’s workmanship in His service; that of country and humanity.

SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.

 

** *The Voice of One crying in the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).

 

God bless our Nigeria.

Please take a pause and listen – source: Martin luther king Jr. We Shall Over Come - Bing video

Good morning, fellow Nigerians and all friends of Nigeria, worldwide!

 

 

***To be continued with its actual title: UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL.

 

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, Publisher, 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 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 (1990-2003), he was on the Core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit’s Publicity Chairman, in addition to being the Summit’s Chairman of the Products and Exhibition sub-committee, 1998.

Other national and important committees on which Aduma has 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), Southern Coordinator/Public Affairs Manager, The Pastoral Resolve, 2000, (a pastoralists NGO) headed by one of Nigeria’s former Head of State), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, presently the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; 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.

Between 2005 and 2009 he was the Media Director, PRONACO (Pro-National Conference), UK/Europe.

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, 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 from the same Further Education College, all in 2018.

Aduma is currently a doctoral researcher at SOAS, University of London and he is the Chief Executive Officer of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE (www.vigilance-securitymagazine.com) and the founder of Scorpion News Corp (www.scorpionnewscorp.com).

His new book will be presented to the global public shortly.

 

  • ODEY KABO OBOYA ADUMA (Johnny Boy).

 

One of God’s workmanship in His service; that of country and humanity.

SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.

 

** *The Voice of One crying in the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).

 

God bless our Nigeria.

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Good morning, fellow Nigerians and all friends of Nigeria, worldwide!

 

 

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