-     2 Chronicles 7:14

You are, therefore, welcome to read, drink, soak yourself therein, debate, dissect and analyse, chew it, swallow it up, and become wiser and reflective, but you are not to plagiarise, copy and paste to claim its ownership, nor regurgitate it, but give credit to the author if you must make reference, quote from it or you are fascinated by any word, phrase/s or idea.

As a teenager at Aladura Comprehensive High School, Anthony Village, the age that the GIBB have chosen to join cultism and youth gang, it was Aduma’s dream to propound theories, be the most quoted intellectual on the planet earth and the greatest theorist and philosopher ever. And regarding that boyish dream, he is today widely quoted in academic journals and scholarly theses across the globe.

No doubt, you are already salivating and don’t want any further ‘traffic’ from the author on your way to his fountain of wisdom and knowledge, but before you are set loose, Mr Aduma ‘d like to ask you these questions: what is your dream?

Just what are your life’s dreams and goals? Happy reading!

(PART 21): 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 THE FULANI EMPIRE IN MODERN DAY NIGERIA
• KNOWLEDGE RATIONING IN NIGERIA AND THE CENTURIES OF KNOWLEDGE CONTROL IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
• NDIGBO: A PEOPLE MORE SINNED AGAINST THAN SINNING
• BOUND TO VIOLENCE: THE MINDLESS AND FIERCE NATIONALIZATION OF VIOLENCE IN AND AROUND NIGERIA
• GOD’S CURSE ON THE ISMAELITES: SAVAGE AND BLOODY BABYLONIANS AND WHY THEY CANNOT LIVE IN PEACE AND HARMONY WITH THEIR ‘JUDEAN’ NEIGHBOURS – “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.... (GENESIS 16:12)
• 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 NIGERIA 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
• YORUBA: THE ABANDONMENT OF AWOISM FOR JAGABANISM AND BUHARISM, BUT ARE YOU AN AWOIST OR A BUHARIST/BUHARITE OR JAGABANITE/TINUBUITE/TINUBUIST?
• YORUBA RENAISSANCE: WHAT WOULD AWO DO UNDER THE CURRENT WILD FERVENT OF YORUBATOPIA AND YORUBA EXCEPTIONALISM?
• BOLA AHMED TINUBU: THE OWAMBENIZATION OF NIGERIA, THE MILITARY AND THE POLICE…500 MILLION YOUTH IN THE MILITARY AND THE POLICE TO SECURE AND POLICE 250 MILLION NIGERIA WON’T BE A BAD IDEA, HUH?
• 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 OPERATIONS…AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING - FROM THE 6^TH CENTURY AD…IS NOW, AND EVER SHALL BE!
• Saving Ndigbo from ‘Mahdi’ Buhari’s imminent jihadi onslaught on SE…our S.O.S to remove Nigeria from the infamy hall of rogue, failed states, axes of violence and warring nations.
• THE FHKSA’S FRANKENSTEIN MONSTERS – BOKO HARAM MEMBERS, ISIS, JANJAWEED, AL-SHABAAB FIFLE, 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 –

“Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

• 2 Kings 6:15.

Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola – the lover boy letter writer.

Muhammed Maigari Dingyadi, Minister of Police Affairs.

CRIMES AND VIOLENCE CONSUME OUR LAND…NIGERIA’S WORST MOMENT IN LIVING MEMORY

“This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country than Nigeria.”

- Muhammadu Buhari.

Behold the avalanche of inherent crimes in the North and South sub-national polity of the Nigerian state, yet the press in Nigeria and the Nigerian people have not deemed it fit to put/pile pressures on the thoroughly useless incumbent ministers of Interior, Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, the Minister of Defence, Major-General Bashir Salihi Magashi and the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammed Maigari Dingyadi, the trio of who have the statutory responsibilities for the defence, security and policing of Nigeria.

Although it is the right thing to do to hold the President and the Service Chiefs to account regarding the security, defence and safety of the nation, criticisms thus far, have been preponderantly on them, but rather than critics focussing more attention on them, the heat should actually be on the Ministers of Interior, Defence and the Police, the absence of which has made Aregbe, Maga and Yadi to be sleeping on duty and snoring in their ‘bunkers’, whilst Nigerians groan under the yokes of the current invasion and subsequent occupation of their country by the disparate elements and criminals:

NORTH

The North (Fulani/Hausa/Kanuri/Shuwa Arabs) is ever in denial because its mirror always doth reflect the South instead of itself.

1. Terrorism/Islamism/extremism/radicalism/jihadism
2. Banditry
3. Abductions/mass abductions
4. Pervasive rape cases
5. Kidnappings
6. Hisbah menace/nuisance
7. Drug trafficking/abuse
8. Alcoholism
9. Malthusian Curse or Malthusian Catastrophe.
10. Paedophilic activities
11. Rampant cases of adultery
12. Religious war at BAY
13. Unparalleled smuggling activities
14. Porous borders which are neither manned nor patrolled.
15. Other innumerable cross-border crimes due generally to all North very porous borders – unmanned, unguarded, and not patrolled.
16. Illegal mining
17. Excessive gambling
18. Armed robbery incidences
19. Prostitution
20. Illegal trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora in and out of the North to the nations.
21. Almajiroid pestilential
22. Cross border child trafficking
23. Modern slavery
24. Slave raiders
25. Hijab brouhaha
26. Reprisal plots
27. Night and day marauders
28. Cattle rustling
29. Sexual assaults/attacks of all types and degrees.
30. Worrisome and pervasive presence of (wandering) aliens
31. Endemic exam malpractices.
32. Mind-bogging prevalence of small arms situations and light weapons
33. Illegal gun markets.
34. Uncontrolled influx of international jihadists/terrorists/Islamists
35. Trans-Saharan small and light weapons trade
36. Foreign official territorial meddling and criminal activities of uniformed men and women from neighbouring countries.

SOME NATURAL THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY

37. Climate change
38. Intractable Desertification
39. Impending locus invasion
40. Famine
41. Mega dams
42. Droughts
43. Deforestation and other forms of environmental degradation.
44. Absence or scarcity of foods in the polity
45. Dust bowls/sand dunes.
46. Intractable winds (extreme desert winds).
47. Plagues/Pestilences
48. Emergence of unexplained, unknown/strange, and mysterious diseases
49. Desiccation of the river systems pushing the North to a hydrological edge.
50. Large scale deforestation
51. Erosion
52. Flooding
53. Locust invasion
54. Crop pests
55. Excessive winds
56. Diseases
57. Locust invasion.

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL

• Inflation
• Joblessness
• Non-payment of salaries which is now the vogue in Nigeria.
• Hunger
• Absence of social security
• Prostitution
• Cost of living
• General poor living standard.
• Just about managing (JAM) or I just dey manage shah syndrome (IJDMSS).
• Factory closure and retrenchment
• Zero investment level within the system.
• Zero foreign direct investment.
• Lootocracy
• Absence of health insurance.
• Abysmal level of unattended and ever-growing youth unemployment.
• Wealth without working (www) or wealth without sweating (wws)

SOUTH

1. Armed robbery
2. Kidnappings
3. Modern slavery
4. Money laundering
5. Baby factories
6. Certificate forgery
7. 419 activities
8. Cultism
9. Bullion Van Syndrome (BVS)
10. Bourdillon Kleptomaniac Syndrome (BKS) or BAT Syndrome (BATS).
11. General youth violence
12. Menace of Area boys and motor park touts whom from the politicians always do recruit/contract to do for them their dirty jobs of killing political opponents and carry out other violence.
13. Pervasive hired killers who are clients to politicians and other highly placed persons in the society.
14. Ritual killings/beheadings
15. Pervasive stealing of women’s’ under wears
16. Cyber crimes
17. Railway track vandals/thieves
18. Ever growing rate of sex for marks
19. Yahoo-Yahoo, Badoo, etc
20. Menace of piracy
21. Election violence
22. Illegal mining
23. Graveyards’ thieves/robbers
24. Trade in endangered species of wild flora and fauna, including smuggling them out of the forests/forest reserves to the nations.
25. Epidemics of tribal militias
26. Menace of vigilantes
27. Proliferation and subsequent explosion of mercantilists separatists’ groups
28. Farmers-herders clashes
29. Very high level of organised and unorganised crimes.
30. Smugglers
31. Prostitution
32. Prevalence of certificates/degrees/documents forgers
33. Land grabbers
34. Frequent inter-communal clashes
35. Climate change effects
36. Small/light arms arriving at ports24/7 and through land borders, canals, and other water ways.
37. Transformer thieves
38. Pylon shooters
39. Transformer vandals who collect mercury to print money with.
40. Scrap metal thieves/exporters
41. Uniformed armed robbers
42. Herbalist collaborators.
43. Traditional rulers abetting crimes.
44. Prevalence of money doublers
45. Pastors and imams who abet crimes.
46. Printers of fake currencies
47. Drug trafficking
48. Drug abuse/drug addicts
49. Drug mules
50. Mobile telephony/GSM thieves
51. Pick pockets!
52. Alcoholism
53. Menace of OPC/Amotekun/vigilantes
54. Human trafficking

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 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 doubled as the Summit’s Publicity; Products and Exhibition Chairman, 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 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), Southern Coordinator/Public Affairs Manager, The Pastoral Resolve, 2000, (a pastoralists NGO) headed by one of Nigeria’s former Head of State), General Muhammadu Buhari, presently, 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 - 2009 he was 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 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 workmanships 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.