(PART 15): Porous borders and national security in times of national emergency and unparalleled adversity

In this series:

• SADA’S HYPOCRISY AND HOW THE FULANI, THE HAUSA AND THE KANURI ELITES HAVE BEEN CANNIBALIZING AND KILLING THE DESTINIES OF THE CHILDREN OF THE TALAKAWAS ACROSS CENTURIES
• THE SUBTLE CONQUEST AND SUBSEQUENT INVASION OF MODERN OYO… MUHAMMADU BUHARI, MUHMMADU SA’ADU ABUBAKAR IV AND THE REVIVAL OF FULANI EMPIRE IN MODERN DAY NIGERIA
• A LAMENT TO UNICEF, UNESCO, MOTHERS IN NIGERIA AND WORLD LEADERS ABOUT THE RAPE PANDEMIC IN NIGERIA
• THE FHKSA’S FRANKENSTEIN MONSTERS – BOKO HARAM MEMBERS, BANDITS, FULANI CATTLE HERDERS, KIDNAPPERS, ARMED ROBBERS, RAPISTS, ARSONISTS, DRUG MULES, DRUG ADDICTS THAT HAVE NOW FILLED THE NORTHERN NIGERIA’S LANDSCAPE ( are the children of the talakawas (the Almajirai) whom Sultan Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar IV, his ancestors and ethnic nationality of Peul, in collaboration with their most willing tools and partners – the Hausa, the Kanuri and the Shuwa Arab elites/cabals/oligarchs/and the caliphate delusionists have kept down across centuries to be used as cannon fodder…MADE IN THE NORTH, BROKEN BY THE NORTH – Ha! Ha!

• In the same palace of the reigning Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar IV, whilst opulence and grandeur are on display 24/7 inside, poverty crows, crows, crows, cries, cries, cries, weeps, weeps, weeps and weeps unheeded and inconsolably outside the Sultan’s very gate, neighbourhood and all Sakkwato. Walahi, this is very scandalous! Injustices shall never, never ever end - or what do you think?
• If poverty in the North will be eradicated, it ‘ll only be with Sada leading the war against the endemic poverty in the North.
• Whilst the entire human community will hold the Sultan responsible for his DO-NOTHINGNESS about the seeming incurable poverty, famine of Biblical proportion that has ravaged all North and the unparalleled level of UNDER DEVELOPMENT in the North, Allah will judge this our Brigadier-General-Sultan very harshly and throw him into hell fire, for his DO NOTHINESS AND I DON’T CARE ATTITUDE in the face of his subjects woes, and for perpetually turning away his eyes whenever he is out and about in his posh limousine driving past his poverty-stricken subjects. Thus, to Sultan Sa’adu, POOR LIVES AND THE ABYSMAL LEVEL OF UNDER DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH DON’T MATTER!
• WAKE UP, CHILDREN OF AFRICA, WAKE UP, SCHOLARS OF AFRICAN DESCENT AND OFFER COUNTER-NARRATIVES - NOW IS NO SLEEPING TIME!
• CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA/WEALTH WITHOUT WORKING: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? HOW MUCH IS REALLY ENOUGH?
• CHAINANITY (DIPLOMATIC GANSTERISM) Vs. HUMAN BROTHERHOOD (DIPLOMATIC DIPLOMACY).
• WHAT IS GIBB?

Symbol of Sankonfa – A mythical bird in Akan folklore. Every Nigerian, and indeed African, must have the symbol of this bird on their desk.

• 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962, 1962.
• July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966,
• July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966, July 29, 1966.

PART 15

FULANI SUPREMACISTS AND THE WEST AFRICAN STATE OF NIGERIA - THE DANGER OF INTRACTABLE CULTURAL IMPERIALISM AND TERRITORIAL EXPANSIONISM CRISS-CROSSING THE NATION…DANGER! D-A-N-G-E-R! D-A-N-G-E-R!

In the Caliphate’s mindless and aggressive quest for more and more territories, the reader is invited to carefully study the location of Ilorin in its two maps above, and same in the authentic map of Nigeria. All students of Geography and map reading would notice how the expanse of land comprising Ilorin is eating deeper and deeper into Oyo, in Oyo State of Nigeria, especially with the ongoing intractable and aggressive push of the Caliphate delusionists/jihadists/Islamists/extremists down or Southward through their various agents – the military, the APC-Muhammadu Buhari-led Government, the herders, the so-called bandits and Fulani herdsmen, who in fact, are jihadists/terrorists/Islamists/extremists.

But do you doubt that the map of Nigeria is being redesigned and redrawn by the Caliphate in its favour?

Like all imperialistic cultures, the Peuls don’t like taking, won’t take, won’t like to take and don’t want to take instruction/s from anyone/group they refer arrogantly and ignominiously to as “pagan/s”/”abeeds”/kafir/s/banza/s, including of course, those who profess the same religion of Islam with them – the Shi’ites, and under the context, the Southlanders and Nokbekwarans (Middle Belters) or the Midlanders, who are outside of their stock or ethnic nationality. This explains one of the countless reasons for their parasitic and tenacious hold onto power in Nigeria perpetually like a salamander/leech that would not let go of their host, nor at local/regional level/s will they subject themselves to the authority of any non-Fulbe constituted authorit(y)/ies – monarchs like any Yoruba Oba, in this case, Kabiyesi Rilwan Akiolu, the Eleko of Eko - Lagos State of Nigeria, or any Yoruba Oba or such other monarchs out there in Nigeria – just as they would never ever allow any none Fulani/Hausa/Kanuri/Shuwa Arabs/Arabs Muslim to lead prayers either in mosques or at any open spaces, so consciously created or improvised for the purpose or either to lead or be their leader in any politico-econo-social and cultural arrangements or activities. So, Muhammadu Rehoboam Buhari’s legendary and very much reported nepotism is not just a case of 97/5, but this notoriety for endogamy and inward-looking is in the DNA of the nomads (the Fulanis), the Arabs and the Turks.

In light of the current criss-crossing of sharia vis a vis with sharia crow expressing their arrogance, cultural and national insensitivity in a kaleidoscopic and chameleonic fashion throughout the length and breadth of the NIBE FEDERATION (Nigeria), all State Assemblies and Local Government Councils/Local Development Associations must as a matter of utmost national exigency enact appropriate legislations or edict forbidding within their jurisdiction the upgrading to the status of an emir, any Sarkins/Ardos or the creation of a cultural and religious kingdom such as the recent experiment which manifested in the creation of the Sardauna of Oturkpo, before it was halted by the Samuel Ortom-led Benue State Government.

Instead of establishing kingdoms in kingdoms such as Sarkin of Lagos, where you already have the Oba of Lagos; Eze Ndigbo of Kano, where you already have the emir of Kano; Oba of Calabar, where you already have the Obong of Calabar; Oba of Benin for Yorubas in Benin or Sardauna of Edo for the Fulanis, when you already have Omo N’Oba, the ruthless warrior king, Ewuare II, all of which have the potential of exploding into intractable social and cultural conflagrations in future, there should henceforth, be established legislations/edicts that will revert all these non-indigenous kings in states of their domicile to heads and leaders of development/progressive unions/associations such as the Secretary-General or the Chairman of the Fulani Progressive/Development Association in Lagos, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Bambado; the Secretary-General of Yala Development Union (YDU) in Zamfara; Chief/Mr/Madam/Dr Oloko Odey; the Chairman of the Yoruba Progressive Union in Edo, Alhaji Iragbiji Honour-Agreement; the Secretary General of Ndigbo Development Association, Mazi Nwokedi Otapiapia Otokoto, alias Ndaguba Ngborogboji Isi-ewu, instead of having a king, where already there is/are native/indigenous kings, with the very embarrassing titles of Eze Ndigbo of Lagos, Sarkin/Ardo/Sardauna of Lagos for the Fulanis/Hausas, etc.

Need I add that the Benueans/Benueites must watch such that the imminent installation of the Emir of Makurdi does not materialise in a season! To be forewarned is to be forearmed.

But pray thee: in the case of Lagos, what if the argument is first and foremost, that the emir of Lagos is ONLY for the Fulanis/Hausas, and that Lagos is a NO MAN’S LAND or that Lagos being a former capital of Nigeria, is in principle a FEDERAL ZONE/TERRITORY?

Please read more at:

EHOES OF WAR DRUMS IN BROKEN AND SCATTERED NIGERIA (vigilance-securitymagazine.com), Accessed: 07/12/2020/

Photo credit: AFP/Vanguard. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/06/in-the-heart-of-the-metropolis-a-king-of-nigerias-herder-fulani-2/ Accessed: 07/12/2020.

Please refer to Part 14.

ANGO & HIS BOLEKAJA TOUR…ON A MISSION TO RUBBISH NDIGBO PRESIDENTIAL PROJECT BY LOOKING FOR A VICE PRESIDENT FOR NASIR EL-RUFAI OR ACTUALLY SHOPPPING IN THE SOUTH FOR A POTENTIALLY “WILLING TOOL” PRESIDENT FOR THE FAST COLLAPSING, FAST FALLING APART NIGERIA?

At a recent town hall meet in Port Harcourt before the gathering of the Northern community, Quota System Professor Ango Himself Is A Liar said the elders were in the State to condole with the Nigerians of Northern extraction who he claimed were attacked during the #EndSARS demo.

OF VERBAL SALVOES AND TERRORISM – THE COMING UNPROPITIOUS REVOLUTION IN THE NORTH

The European colonialists on their departure in 1960 handed Nigeria over to the local colonizers with origin from the East. And since then, the Fulanis and the Arabs with their willing collaborators – the Hausas, the kanuris, the Shuwa Arabs and their Southern and Nokbekwaran cronies have been enslaving successive generations of the NIBE FEDERATION, hence the relationship has been that of masters/servants, masters/slaves, the free/the enslaved, exploiters and the exploited as in Muhammadu Buhari’s Parable of Dogs and Baboons whose blood are to be shed perpetually. And it must here be stressed loud and clear that the much-trumpeted non-negotiability of the Nigerian union is not only the worst form of the absurdity of the absurd but the worst form of tyranny/dictatorship and corruption.

This is the type of relationship that has prepared the ground for every Kwankwaso and Ango from the Upland to talk down on Southlanders who they have regarded as “pagans” all the time, as Muhammadu Buhari did in year 2000 by going to Ibadan with a legion of the Arewaites to intimidate the Yorubas through the late Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Lam Adesina, and charging like a hungry savage wolf, Buhari was reported to have asked very aggressively, violently and demeaningly:  “…why are your people killing my people…?”; and in another era, 2015 to be precise, that Kano bulldog of a man and swashbuckler, Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso who was in Ibadan then, was talking down the Yorubas as if they were his house helps.

And after having echoed Buhari by accusing the Yorubas of killing his fifle , he in his long tirade admonished the Yorubas to “get a good education”, and actually told the gathering Yoruba elders to padlock their mouth: …Shut up” he had told them in the manner of a well dreaded village headmaster to his very frightened and timid pupil; and in 2018, ‘kwaso whose avocation/hobby is to always cast aspersions on the Yorubas whom he usually treats like his foot mat, has during the UNITY MARRIAGE between former Miss Fatima Ganduje and Idris Ajimobi arrogantly and in his characteristic trademark pharisaical demeanour  described the marriage as “zawarawa” (Hausa, for amoral) - this type of arrangement which should be supported and encouraged throughout Nigeria by all Nigerians, ‘kwanso saw it differently – he either thinks three years after his admonition to the Yorubas to get a “good education”, they have not been able to do so or he was peeved by that sort of arrangement, so was querying the “waywardness” of Fatima to have married a “pagan” Southerner which would make her miss Aljanah; and lately that plate-licking Almajiri, Ango Bolekaja who obtained his ‘professorship’ from a nearby goat market in Kano, and has been touring the South South and the East with otunu on his ears (Yala, for a type of rose that the wearer aims to provoke a fight with anyone when wearing it) to provoke another round of war so his people can hold onto power perpetually, accused Ndigbo, especially in Port Harcourt during the unnecessary meeting of the Northern Elders Forum team with the Arewa community: “We came because we saw no reason innocent residents where ever they are irrespective of where they come from who are not participating in the protest will be subjected to violence. They suffered enormous violence and loss of lives and assets of various magnitude, “he said.

“What was surprising to us was that those that perpetrated the violence against northerners are the same people who are crying more and calling for compensation other than those, who suffered the consequences.

“We take particular delight when we talked with the governor of the state. We were told by residents of Rivers state that the governor was particularly interested in protecting them and their rights as he swore in his oath of office.

“We are not sure what name really they want to keep. They come with different brands, they use this name to perpetrated criminality in different parts of the country.

“It is up to the authorities to assure all of us that this must end. This must stop. I think the north will no longer allow this red line to be crossed. It is because people get away with criminal behaviour without sanctions and punishment that is why they keep recycling these irresponsible behaviours.”

Source: Stop Attacks On Northerners, NEF Warns – :::…The Tide News Online:::… Accessed: 10/02/24

In the 80s, this perpetually broke and ever dependent on government Almajiri, notoriously then referred to as ANGO MUST GO, stole over six months from each member of my generation. He hijacked my idea of Nigerian Elders Forum, whereupon I had blasted him of parochialism, provincialism, and clannishness, advising him as an intellectual in a highly fragile and volatile polity, his business is to be non-partisan, remaining neutral when it comes to ethnic politicking; and as a supposed and even though, a how-for-do intellectual, he is expected to be a pathfinder, pointing as the Great Zik of Africa had said the torch so others could follow.

He and others of his ilk who latched onto that idea of mine did run with it for a while, but arrived nowhere, because it was a stolen idea, hence they all keep retreating and cocooning in their ethnic enclaves, which lately found an initiate in one Olu Obasanjo – Olu the Lonely, and having been driven by loneliness to seek shelter in the womb of his people, where he is now contending for a space with a mouse, a professional mudslinger and actual mud-thrower is living up to his calling, by messing up thoroughly that once HUMAN LEVIATHAN, as he dances naked in the village arena screaming OWU NATION! OWU NATION!

• But how many books has this Almajiri, the notorious beggar at the Looting Gate of every government in power in Nigeria (EGIPIN) written?
• How many papers has he delivered in and around the globe beginning first from the cow markets in Kano?
• How many newspapers in Nigeria has he published his articles? As a journalist practicing then in Nigeria, I never saw or read any articles published by any newspapers in Nigeria written by this ‘professor’ of tuwology, shinkafaology and
• How many theories has he propounded?
• How often is he quoted in academic journals both in Nigeria and globally or let us give him the benefit of the doubt – as an arch Taliban, how many in Arabian academic journals throughout the Sunni Muslim world?
• What book is this rabid Fulani irredentist reading right now? And how many collections of books were in his travel bag during the week/s of his sharia criss-crossing down Southland?
• How many PhD students did he supervise as an academic?
• What degrees and certificates does he have, let him publish them in the media immediately?
• What really happened during the ANGO MUST GO (!) era?
• How many students lost their lives and how many hospitalised?
• Ango must tender an unreserved apology to the nation and my generation whose many seasons he had stolen, for “1000 years is but one day in the sight of the Lord; and one day is but 1000 years in the sight of the Lord”.
• Since retirement, what exactly has Ango been doing for a living, and what does he do now for a living, or he has merely been profiting from heating up the polity and the consequent chaos?
• How many cows does he have amongst the cattle being herded by the killer Fulani shepherds in and around the country to graze – the same question goes to other cow owners like the Sultan of Sokoto, Brigadier General Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar IV, who is also the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the very dreaded and bloody MACBAN, Atiku Abubakar, one of the financiers of MACBAN, Emir of Kano Aminu Ado Bayero, Lamido Adamawa, etc, etc?
• What really does ‘Lazarus’ of Kano want?
• When will he ever be useful to Nigeria, Africa and humanity, bearing in mind this plate-licker and kunu seller is now in his twilight? But shouldn’t he be shepherding cattle to graze grass in and around Nigeria with his ‘talking’ yellowish rubber shoes, a hat as the ignominious dome of that House of Maggots and a longish stick as a horse genital – five miles long, hung across his shoulders?
• As a challenge, this shameless agent provocateur is hereby ordered to write an article titled: NORTH ON A HYDROLOGICAL EDGE, and if we find it publish worthy, we shall give N50, 000.00 for that article, paid into his bank account. Number of words: 5000.
• The article which must be written in an insightful scholarly manner by Alhaji Ango Abdullahi himself will be published on our two magazines – Vigilance and Scorpion.
• The N50, 000.00 which will be paid into his personal account will be the initial seed money for the ANGO ABDULLAHI SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION (AASF) FOR INDIGENT NIGERIAN STUDENTS IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES, which we shall help him establish to make him for once, to be useful to himself, family, his state, the nation and humanity.
• This is how a professor worth their salt should think – PROGRESSIVE THINKING and not turning everything to religion, religion, religion and ethnic bigotry at all times, for the moon is not for, nor by sighting, but for, and by exploration. What can be more challenging to all the religious bigots in the North: the Saudis are already exploring what lies beyond in the home of the gods, especially Mars!
• The trouble with KPANDEMIC Ango Dabarullahi is that like his ilk, and especially the Fulanis, the Kanuris, the Arabs and the Shuwa Arabs is that they carry religion in their heads and put progress and development inside their anuses where they can easily pooh them out into the lavatory. Of Ango Wahala and Katakata and his brethren, the Bible says: “Brothers,my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation. 2 For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge…”, Romans 10:1-2.
• By the way how many trees has Ango Abiodunllahi planted since age 18 till now?
• How many did this Kulikuli ‘Professor’ plant last year, and how many has he planted in the last five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty and fifty years?
• Does he have (an) orchard/s?
• Just what is arrogant Ango Abpridellahi’s self-worth, national worth, ethnic worth, regional worth, political worth, economic worth, social worth, cultural worth, academic worth, integrity worth/character worth and religious worth and humanity worth?
• Whilst his ignominious and bloody academic career lasted, how many lectures did he deliver in and around the world? Ango must send us copies of such papers, in addition to copies of his published books.
• And what is very laughable about this so-called ‘Professor’ is that his idea of restructuring is about a return to regionalism and Westminster type goment (government).
• Anyone outa there should tell ANGO KPANDEMIC, ANGO ‘PROFESSOR’ KPANGOLO, ANGO, THE POLITICAL HEATER AND SOCIAL IDLER that if he hasn’t got anything to do in the twilight of his life, he should go and sell kunu, nama, ireke, suya, obrukutu, fura de nunu, shine shoes, push truck/wheel barrow collect toro, work as a roving street manicurist and pedicurist, wandering all over the streets in the North with a wooden box hung across his shoulders, constantly hitting it to draw the attention of potential customers or sell masala or sell water in tins or carry malu go graze about the place with AK-5000!
• Need I remind the reader that this very confused and neither here nor there, pseudo intellectual, backed the irresponsible and over pampered so-called Northern youth when they issued Ndigbo quit notice in 2017, but he is today talking about no one is a settler in any part of their country, which is where this writer stands as all of us, whether domiciled in the North or South or East or West: WE ARE ALL NIGERIANS.

Yours in the service of God, our Nigeria and all of humanity.

• Johnny Boy

SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.

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

*To be continued.

ABOUT JOHN ODEY ADUMA

A highly successful and award–winning British Chevening Scholar, Poet, Editor, Columnist, Communications Consultant, Author, Commentator on national and international issues, Environmental and Publishing Consultant, with expertise in Conflict Management, Public Surveillance, Media, Business Management and Administration, General Marketing, Market Research, Sales, Advertising and Public Relations.

John Odey Aduma, British Chevening Scholar, Author of The Diamonds Are Here , Lord Rumens (ed.) and Be A Beacon of Hope: A Message to Young Britain (soon to be released to the global public by Austin Macauley Publishers, United Kingdom), and a renowned environmental journalist was born on December 13, 1963 at Okpoma, Yala in Ogoja, Cross River State of Nigeria. He was educated variously at Christ the King’s School, Okpoma, 1969-1970; St. Mel’s Primary School, Woleche-Ebo, 1971; St. Gabriel’s Primary School, Ebo-Ipuole, 1972-1974; Christian Vocational Commercial School, Okuku, Ogoja, 1975; Faith Institute of Stenography, Shogunle, Lagos, 1976; Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, Lagos, 1977-1982; University of Ibadan, Department of Adult Education, 1983-1984; Obafemi Awolowo University, 1985-1989, where he graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in English Studies; University of Lagos, 1991-1992, where he worked for and obtained an M.A. in English; and at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, 1994, where he took a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism; City University, London, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2004, where he was a British Chevening Scholar and studied for his M.A. in  International Journalism with specialism in Environment; City Business College, London, 2005-2006 for a  Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies, but completed only the taught course; Voice Coaching, CSV Media, London, 2006; Radio Production, CSV Media, London, 2006 and the City and Guilds Certificate in Conflict Management. 2006.

Besides, he has attended many training courses in Planning, Writing and Production Skills on Communicating for the Environment.

He was the winner of the Nigerian Media Merit Award for Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence, Reporter of the Year, both in 1992. He also received a Community Service Award in 1997 and the Outstanding Staff Award of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc in the year 2001.

In 1994, he edited Lord Rumens, a book on a prominent Nigerian business tycoon and Lawn Tennis icon, Chief Ajisomo Alabi. He is a member of the Green Environment Movement, and the Nigerian Field Society, he was on the Core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit’s Publicity Chairman.

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 75^th 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 7^th and 8^th 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 75^th Anniversary, 2001 including sitting on many national techno-industrial committees (too numerous to mention here) in his capacity then as Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria.

Aduma, Communications/Environmental Consultant, Critic, Poet, Essayist, and Columnist, was formerly Staff Reporter, The Guardian (flagship of the Nigerian media) 1990-1993; Consultant/Chairman, Media, Green Environment Movement, Nigeria, 1990-2003; Senior Correspondent, The Independent Weekly, (1993-1994); Head, Environment and Property Desk, The Punch (1994-1997); Editorial Consultant and Contributing Editor, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation’s Tortoise Magazine, 1995; Contributing Editor, Pole Star Magazine (1998); Member, Editorial Board of The Nigerian Conservationist Magazine (1995-2000), Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria, (1997-2000), Public Affairs Manager (Lagos Office, albeit on voluntary capacity), The Pastoral Resolve, 2000, (a pastoralists NGO) headed by one of Nigeria’s former Head of State), General Muhammadu Buhari; and Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc (2000-2003).

He was one of the twelve eminent Nigerians appointed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR) of Nigeria into the Administrative Panel of Inquiry, also known variously as Presidential Panel, Commission of Inquiry, respectively to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of Endangered Species of Flora and Fauna into and out of Nigeria in 2003.

In year 2003, he attended the Chevening Leadership Programme, (sponsored by the British Council and Shell) at the elite Lagos Business School (the Pan-African University) in Nigeria and thereafter, proceeded to the United Kingdom as a British Chevening Scholar to study International Journalism at City University, London, where he worked for and obtained an MA in International Journalism with specialism in environment.

In addition to his array of degrees and extensive experience in journalism, environment, development, international diplomacy and international security, Mr Aduma obtained the AET (Award in Education and Training), Level 3 from CONEL, a Further Education College and member of the Capital City College Group (CCCG), London, 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.

Aduma is currently a doctoral researcher at SOAS and is the Chief Executive Officer of VIGILANCE-THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE (www.vigilance-securitymagazine.com).

Yours in the service of God, our Nigeria and all of humanity.

• Johnny Boy

SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.

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

*To be continued.