BY CHINWEIZU

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01 Feb 2019

Introductory summary:

Nigeria is on the “Expressway to Rwanda.” This declaration of alarm was made on 3 January 2019 by Alhaji Basir Tofa, the candidate who stood against and lost to M.K.O. Abiola in the subsequently annulled 1993 presidential election

The evidence for that conclusion lies in the following aspects of

1. The current situation: 
2. Killings with impunity across the country (Widespread ethnic cleansing in North central Nigeria, a.k.a. Middle Belt; and with the ethnic cleansers aided and abetted by Buhari’s armed forces; and Boko Haram in Northeast; Fulani herdsmen and militia infiltrating all parts of the country, killing, raping, grazing their cattle on farms and poised to launch a genocidal Jihad when given the signal by Buhari.)
   2. Constitutional turmoil: A fraudulent 1999 Constitution written in secret, imposed by military decree, and serving the domination agenda of the Jihadist Fulani Caliphate; the Government’s stone deafness to calls for, and dogged refusal to initiate, a process to produce a genuine Constitution written and approved in a genuine referendum.

SERIES: BUHARISM AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW

PART 2

Wake up, Fellow Nigerians

“…they talk and write about a Buhari dividing the nation, whereas they were the first to have put a sword on the things that hitherto held us together, having so divided the country into ethnic groupings, constantly heating up the polity for their bellies; they cowardly remain on the thresholds of their ethnic enclaves and talk about the Nigerian nation, giving the world the false impression that they are nationalists, or should be so seen – but they have forgotten that you cannot be an ethnic irredentist/arch ethnicist and be a nationalist at the same time, for a person is either an ethnicist or a nationalist as it is NOT possible to be both or wear the toga of both at the same time.”

BY IDRISS ZACKARIA

In this journey, I’ll take you through some key phases of Africa’s revolutions that are about to shake up and reshape the continent very soon. Few predicted the defeat of the Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh; the decision of the Supreme Court in Kenya and the victory of the opposition in Nigeria. Therefore, the next great African moment could be just around the corner, as is the cases in any continent with a complicated political landscapes and power sharing systems, crises do occur. But, such crises have so far evolved through social and constitutional means, which is unprecedented in Africa’s recent history. For better and worse, the emerging African geopolitical landscape is drawing to a close an era of revolutions. The central challenge of our time is posed not by civil war or terrorism as it used to be, but rather by the intensifying turbulence caused by the phenomenon of national consciousness and global political awakening. Such awakening is politically radicalizing and socially massive - a process of socio-political renewal is underway across the continent, as long as some regimes that tightly control the political landscape will hold elections that they have no intention of losing.

BY DON OKEREKE, SECURITY ANALYST/CONSULTANT

Reminiscent of the abduction of 276 Chibok Girls four years ago, Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) on Monday, 19 February 2018, invaded Government Girls Science and Technical College, (GGSTC), (formerly Government Girls Secondary School, GGSS), Dapchi, Bursari Local Government Area of Yobe State, Northeast Nigeria. Dapchi, a dusty, agrarian community sits approximately 100km from Damaturu, the Yobe state capital. Locals affirmed that the insurgents were dressed in military fatigues and turbans, that they moved into the town at about 6pm with about eight Hilux Vans and some Tata trucks bearing Arabic inscriptions. They were unchallenged, firing automatic weapons sporadically and shouting ‘’Allahu Akbar’’, meaning God is the greatest. The kamikaze gunmen were tenably strangers given that they did not know the location of the girls’ school - GGSTC even though it is just by the road leading to Gashua town. Not knowing their way around, the Kanuri speaking gunmen eventually forced some residents to show them the location of the school. They shook hands with some natives and asked them to proceed with their prayers, that they are not there for them. After abducting scores of girls, they headed east, towards Gumsa village. Open source intelligence suggests that half of the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls may have been ferried across the border into neighboring Niger Republic.