SERIES: FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN...

¹ By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

² There on the poplars     we hung our harps,

³ for there our captors asked us for songs,     

our tormentors demanded songs of joy;     

they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

- Psalm 137.

JOHN ODEY ADUMA in this article takes a hard and very reflective look at the nation’s odyssey thus far, especially after 105 years since the amalgamation and laments that the people of the Upper and Lower Niger are not yet able to integrate and cohere as a people of one indissoluble nation under one destiny, one philosophy, one vision and under one God, with the country having been further divided by the Arabists into SHARIADOM AND CHRISTENDOM. Of equal lament for Mr Aduma also is the fact that an army of occupation from the East through their local agents and collaborators have besieged the West African State of Nigeria, holding her in captivity and pillaging her resources and actual wealth in a manner he would like to chronicle for posterity as: The Pacification of the Christian tribes of the Lower and Upper Niger, paving the way for the introduction of total and mindless sharia in the polity.

• He further laments that Nigerians are known more for their often-ignominious rancour, political vendetta, aggrandizement, nepotism, regionalism, ethnicity, practise of hereditary privilege, socio-politico-cultural pollution, otherwise known as corruption, than being a people of one nation.

 SERIES: GO NO GO, EBRITHING YUS 'TANDA LIKE ATANDA

ENTER THE FAILED PROPHET, TUNDE BAKARE, THE MAN WHO WANTS OLULEKE OSINBAJO’S JOB VERY BADLY, WAILING FROM THE OCHARD OF SHEIKH UTMAN DAN FODIO, INSTEAD OF FROM THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, WHERE NATURALLY, HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT MY FATHER’S BUSINESS:

The excerpts of a speech by Tuned Bakare below confirms the truism that the Nigeria Ruling House is nothing, but a House or Den of robbers, peopled with pen robbers, armed robbers, international crooks, worms, vultures, rodents, pests, cockroaches, jiggers, destiny changers, destiny destroyers/killers, international thieves, destiny cannibals, paedophiles, etc, etc. But our only worry, and perhaps, lamentation for Tunde is that he is not concentrating in His Father’s Business, by delving into politics and prophet-lying that he is the political messiah to redeem the Nigerian State from straying away from the path of godliness, decency, civility, economic progress, humaneness, peace, justice, universal altruism and egalitarianism in order to restore the Nigerian political kingdom. Hence, we say: ICHABOD! ICHABOD! ICHABOD! THE GLORY DEPARTS!