Insecurity in Nigeria: Fans of the Romanian national football team Identify with Nigerian Christians ( Photos)

 

'Defend Nigerian Christians'

Fans of the Romanian national football team unfurled a banner before their Worlld Cup Qualifier

The Dangerous Cycle Of Impunity: How Nigeria’s Leaders Are Nurturing A Culture Of Impunity

By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed 

As President Tinubu continues to set troubling precedents by granting pardons to individuals accused or convicted of serious crimes such as murder and drug trafficking, a dangerous message is being sent to the nation. By normalising impunity at the highest levels, Nigeria risks creating a political environment where those with questionable pasts may one day rise to positions of power and leadership. 

When convicted criminals are absolved of their wrongdoing through political influence, it erodes public trust in the justice system and undermines the rule of law.

It is deeply disheartening and regrettable that Nigeria has reached a point where justice appears selective—where some individuals, despite being found guilty of heinous crimes, are freed due to their political connections, while others, like Nnamdi Kanu, remain detained despite court rulings declaring them not guilty. 

Such double standards expose the deep moral and institutional decay within the system and raise serious questions about fairness, accountability, and equality before the law.

The government’s approach to negotiating with terrorists, rehabilitating them, and reintegrating them into society—despite the destruction, kidnappings, and killings they have caused—further worsens the situation. It sends a demoralising signal to victims and law-abiding citizens that crime pays, while lawful dissent or peaceful activism is treated as treason. 

A government that pardons murderers and drug traffickers while keeping political prisoners behind bars cannot genuinely claim to be committed to justice or national security.

This reality calls for sober reflection. Citizens must understand that leadership choices have far-reaching consequences. Electing individuals without integrity, compassion, or a sense of justice ultimately leads to moral collapse and national instability. When those in power disregard the sanctity of human life and the principles of justice, they weaken the very foundation of governance.

My advice is that no one should ever be unjustly killed, harmed, or condemned under such a system. The same government that pardons killers and drug lords today could one day protect the very people responsible for violence and suffering tomorrow.

 This is a grim reminder of what happens when voters choose leaders based on propaganda, ethnic sentiment, or personal gain rather than character and competence. 

Only divine intervention can rescue Nigeria from the calamities that lie ahead if the nation continues on this dangerous path of rewarding crime and punishing truth.

 Tinubu granted sweeping clemency and posthumous pardons to a total of 147 convicts, inmates and deceased Nigerians, including Maryam Sanda, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sir Herbert Macaulay, Major General Mamman Vatsa, Professor Magaji Garba, and dozens of illegal miners, drug convicts, and white-collar offenders.

APC government since its inception in 2015 has been a terrorist and criminal friendly government .

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APC Government Owned the Terrorists: Nigerian Troops Rescue More Kidnapped Victims, Continue Onslaught Against Bandits in Kwara State

The Nigerian Army has said it's Troops of 2 Division/Sector 3, Operation FANSAN YAMMA, have sustained aggressive operations against bandits in Kwara State, leading to the successful rescue of three kidnapped victims at different locations within the Babanla Forest on Saturday, 11 October 2025.

According to the statement made available to the general public, acting on credible intelligence, troops deployed at the Patrol Base Babanla swiftly mobilised to a suspected bandit hideout and rescued Mrs Oluwabusayo Taiwo, aged 25, and her 3 years old son, Taiwo Irayomide, who were among the victims abducted at Oke-Ode on 28 September 2025.

The rescued victims are currently receiving first aid treatment at the Patrol Base sick bay and will be reunited with their family members in due course.

Also the troops while on routine patrol along a suspected bandit route, also rescued Mr Mohammadu Sani, known as Mai Shayi,* a 40 years old local tea seller from Garkarima. The bandits fled upon sighting the patrol team, abandoning the victim, who was found in a pool of blood. Troops recovered one dane gun and a cutlass from the scene. The victim is currently receiving medical attention at the Patrol Base sick bay.

The Commander, 22 Armoured Brigade, Brigadier General Ezra Barkins, commended the troops for their swift response and professionalism, while reaffirming that the Nigerian Army will remain committed towards ensuring the safety and security of all citizens and will continue to intensify operations aimed at restoring peace and stability across Kwara State and its environs 

It is on records that insecurities in Nigeria have been aggravated since enthronement of APC leadership in 2015. Beyond Boko Haram terrorism, the country has graduated to multiple non state actors terrorism by bandits , kidnapping for ransoms and Fulani herdsmen killing the defenseless and helpless citizens while the Tinubu led APC gangs keeps imposing taxes, devalued national currency, reduced the purchasing power of the people and keeps the country permanently as the global capital of poverty. The government has also crippled the opposition political parties in the country and silence critics 

APC Government Owned the Terrorists: Name of towns deserted In KWARA STATE Because of Bandits Attacks as at NOW (+Video)

These Are the Name of towns deserted In KWARA STATE By Band!t as at NOW

1) Ologomo Town

2) Ajegunle Town

3) AgbanTown

4) Alebe Town

5) Owode Town

6) Alasoro Town

7) Alawan Town

8) Bankole Town

9) Oreke Town

10) Ganmu Town

11) Babanla Town

12) Ayetoro Town

13) Budo Town

14) Arifowomo Town

15) Apata Olosun Town

16) Oreke Isale Town

17) Sagbe  Town

18) Olohun Tele Town

19) Oke Ode Town

20) Ilu Agunjin Town.

KWARA SOUTH IS  BLEEDING

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APC government came to Power in the year 2015 with empty rhetorics to fight and end Boko Haram terrorism but the party only succeeded in intriduciynore terrorists groups such as the Fulani herdsmen, bandits, megsl kidnapping for ransom and the current group unleashing terrors in the North Central of the country.

APC government has failed in the primary responsibilities of governance, protection of lives and properties but Tinubu led APC gangs only knows how to collect taxes, reduced the purchasing power of the citizens, sharing abject poverty for greater numbers of people.

 It is the constitutional duty of the President to protect lives and property — not to multiply taxes while citizens are fleeing their hometowns.

You cannot build national prosperity on insecurity.

When people abandon their homes, farmlands, and local economies out of fear, the foundation of governance collapses.

Security is not just a moral duty — it is the economic backbone of every stable nation.

How do you tax a farmer who can’t access his land?

How do you expect productivity from a citizen who sleeps in fear?

Every displaced family represents a shrinking economy — a town losing its workforce, a market losing its buyers, and a government losing its legitimacy.

Yet in this country, the death of Nigerians has become just another statistic — names reduced to numbers, headlines recycled like weather reports.

We mourn for a day, move on by tomorrow, and the government calls it “progress.”

Leadership without security is taxation without humanity.

While the government focuses on new levies and economic jargon, the real economy — the people — is dying in silence.

And those joining this administration to tell us it’s making progress are the worst kind of humans —

soulless defenders of failure.

They are like the Uruk-hai from The Lord of the Rings — bred for destruction, loyal only to evil, and blind to the ruin they serve.

To worsen it, they travel across the world gaslighting citizens —

telling the international community that there is no corruption back home,

while the nation they left behind bleeds from the wounds of theft, lies, and silence.

And the saddest part?

Many of you think you’re supporting your party while all this evil is taking place.

You defend the same system that is destroying your future,

clap for oppressors who wouldn’t spend a second living your reality,

and mock those who still dare to speak.

You cannot measure GDP when the ground itself is unsafe.

Until lives are protected, every new tax is blood money collected from the displaced and forgotten.

A serious government protects first, reforms next, and taxes last.

But in today’s Nigeria, the order is reversed — we are being taxed for a nation we can no longer live in.

Bandits on Rampage In Kwara State, Kill One, Abduct Stepbrother In Fresh Attack In Gbale Community, Face Resistance From Locals

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Armed bandits were reportedly on Rampage in renewed wave of attacks across Kwara’s riverine and forested communities, many of which have faced repeated kidnappings and killings in recent months.


According to the reports on Thursday, Bandits again struck Edu Local Government Area in Kwara State, killing one person and abducting another during an early-morning raid in Gbale community. Different eyewitnesses accounts confirmed that the attackers arrived around 2:00 a.m. but were met with fierce resistance from local hunters and vigilantes, who engaged them with superior firepower.

Overwhelmed, the gunmen retreated toward Bishewa settlement. In Bishewa, the assailants launched another assault, killing one of two stepbrothers in their home and abducting the other.

“They killed Ndako, the elder brother, and took the younger one, Audu, away,” a source told reporters.

The renewed wave of attacks has escalated tension across Kwara’s riverine and forested communities, many of which have faced repeated kidnappings and killings in recent months.

In response, the Nigerian Army has reportedly deployed a full brigade and heavy equipment to Kwara South and parts of Kwara North to flush out bandits from forest hideouts.

According to Rafiu Ajakaye, Chief Press Secretary to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, troops were observed advancing through Oke Ode and Babanla in Ifelodun Local Government Area.

The operation, conducted under Operation Fasan Yanma, also covers the Edu and Patigi councils, where soldiers are combing dense forests frequently used by kidnappers for ransom activities

PRESS RELEASE : Killings in Ilorin — Alaafin takes proactive steps to fish out perpetrators, checkmate criminal onslaughts

The Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Engineer Abimbola Akeem Owoade 1, ,has called on Nigerians to stand together against blood guzzlers and enemies of state, nature, and sound reasoning, who take solace in mindless killings of innocent souls.

This, he said would reinforce collective will, to completely snatch the country and destiny from the jaws of insanity and barbarism, just as socio-cultural orientations that uphold the sanctity of life and the intrinsic dignity in the human person must never be surrendered to the ungodly.

Oba Owoade gave the admonition on the heels of recent killings of some people who were  of Yoruba' extraction by those suspected as Fulani herdsmen at Oke Ode  area in Kwara State.

Disturbed about this ugly development , and putting into consideration the fact that Yorubas and Fulanis had  for decades been living harmoniously without let or hindrance,  Alaafin had  contacted the Kwara State Governor,  AbdulRahman  AbdulRasaq on the incident and how best he could come in , in order to nip in the bud the criminal onslaught by the bandits.

The Governor in his response lauded the Alaafin for his concerned , visionary style of administration and as the Titan of Yorubaland , assured the Paramount Ruler that a battalion of soldiers had been deployed to the scene of the gory incident .

The  Alaafin who lamented about the mindless killings masterminded by suspected Fulani herdsmen  wondered why the herdsmen became threats to peace and security, adding they had for long been in existence without serious criminal records as is presently the case.

Oba Owoade enjoined the Federal Government to ensure that all those found culpable in the mindless killings in Kwara State are brought to justice and to serve as a credible deterrence.

According to the Alaafin, ‘’there can be no national development without relative peace and stability.  There have been greater challenges of security in recent times than at any point in time in our history, thus rendering our political stability fragile, democratic institutions and processes fluid,

"" Government, political leaders and followers, and all of us, must have the courage and honesty to get to the root causes of our current state of insecurity, underpinned by criminality, insurgency and of recent terrorism by herdsmen’’.

He went further,  "’Our leaders and followers should not take  the issue of security for granted, but to ensure urgent and immediate steps  are taken to consciously respond to current threats by architectonic designing and building a security system which would create a stable and relatively peaceful environment, conducive for national development. We must accept the reality that while it is necessary to create unity in diversity, we must identify and respect our differences, which is diversity in unity"".

While eulogizing security agencies for their steadfastness and commitment to duties, Alaafin who warned against acts that are detrimental to peace, orderliness and unity of the country, assured all ethnic groups living in the metropolis of adequate protection of lives and properties.

‘’Before now, Oyo Empire under the reign of Alaafin not only remained the first to provide cattle ranches for Fulani herdsmen in Yoruba land, another ten acres of land were made available for convenience of the herdsmen free of charge, in order to ensure harmonious relationship and peaceful co-existence among all ethnic groups residing in the metropolis’’.

Oba  Owoade added, ‘’whenever there are skirmishes between farmers and the hersmen, the Royal Father would adopt his age-long conflict resolution mechanisms, which provides opportunity to interact with the parties concerned, promotes consensus-building, social bridge reconstructions and enactment of order in the  Empire"".

                            

Bode Durojaiye, Director of Media and Publicity to the Alaafin, Paramount Ruler of Oyo Kingdom and the Superior Head of Yorubaland

A Lesson From the Past: The High Cost of Hospitality

Why History Must Be Taught — And Remembered.

They say those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But in Nigeria, we’re not just forgetting — we’re sleepwalking into a repetition.

Here’s a story you won’t find in your average schoolbook — but it should be there.

In 1804, King Yunfa of Gobir (present-day Sokoto) welcomed a wandering Fulani Islamic scholar and his followers. His name? Usman Dan Fodio. That single act of hospitality would change the face of Northern Nigeria forever.

What started as a peaceful coexistence ended in bloodshed, war, and the fall of the Hausa kingdoms. By 1808, King Yunfa was dead, and Dan Fodio had established the Sokoto Caliphate, installing himself as Sultan. Fulani emirs rapidly replaced the indigenous Hausa rulers — a sweeping conquest disguised as religious reform.

The Fulani didn’t stop there. The once-mighty Afonja of Ilorin, a Yoruba warlord, allied with a Fulani warrior, Janta Alimi. The result? Afonja was murdered by Fulani forces in 1824, and Ilorin — once a proud Yoruba town — became an emirate under Sokoto rule. It remains so till today. Every attempt to restore a Yoruba king in Ilorin has failed.

Yet not all bowed.

In 1840, the Yoruba forces halted the Fulani jihad in a decisive battle in Osogbo, preventing what could have become a Fulani conquest of Oyo, Ibadan, Owo, Ado, and even Ekiti.

The Benin Kingdom also stood strong. Had they not fought back, Edo and Delta might have fallen too — like parts of Edo North, which were overrun and islamized.

But here’s the chilling part…

Today, we see echoes of that same strategy playing out — only this time, the battleground is disguised as "grazing reserves."

It starts with a simple request: “We need land to graze.” But those “grazing areas” evolve into settlements, then communities, and soon, political strongholds with elected officials.

Still think it’s a conspiracy theory?

 look at other local governments around like Bassa, Bokkos, Mangu, Riyom, B Ladi. Look at Jos, once a peaceful Middle Belt city. What happened there is no longer news — it’s a warning.

And if we continue to look away, tomorrow might bring emirs not just in Sokoto or Ilorin, but in Enugu, Owerri, Benin, Agatu, Abeokuta, and beyond.

This is not just history — it’s a pattern.

Usman Dan Fodio was once just a guest. So was Janta Alimi.

Today, the Fulani herdsman is not just a cattle rearer. He’s a pawn — perhaps even a foot soldier — in a much older, more organized plan.

Someone once said, “The grazing bill is not a solution; it’s a strategy.”

Create a crisis. Propose a “solution.” Then legalize your real agenda.

It’s the oldest political trick in the book — and it’s playing out before our very eyes.

Be wise. Be aware. Spread the word.

History is knocking — will we answer or ignore it again ?

Source: Social media 

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE BY GEN. T Y DANJUMA

 General T. Y. Danjuma's speech recently about Nigeria's Insecurity Situation in April, 2025. It is titled 'TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE'. It is worth reading for posterity. 

Gen TY Danjuma only said it in a nutshell. You may read the real story behind his outburst.  

 *TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE* 

I want to begin with History. Most people have heard the phrase : - "Too little, too late,"- but very few know the origin of that phrase and what it was actually created to serve.

  In the 1930's - 40's the world moved on precariously and dangerously, tethering and staggering on the path of self-destruction. The wicked were on the march and full of courage and conviction while the righteous majority were racked with indecision, fear, selfishness and utter indifference. The forces of tyranny were on the wings making dramatic gains while there was no courage or political will on the other side to challenge them.

  Just as it is now in our nation.

Nazism was already establishing its tentacles in Germany with Hitler surrounded by the adoration of a nation of culture that has lost its way. Fascism was taking hold and consolidating itself in Italy with Mussolini daring anyone to cross his path. In Asia the Japanese, the Red Dragon, was building a formidable arsenal and stronghold, a military - industrial complex to form the tripod of evil.

  Against all these formidable forces the Free World had nothing except Appeasement from Britain, Indecision from America and a Soviet Union shackled by an ideology that is good on paper but never worked on ground, struggling with a large restless population it was unable to feed. 

Thus against Germany's Nazism, Italian Fascism and Japanese Militarism which constituted the Axial Powers, the Free World had no answer or nothing to meet them.

  There was little courage and even much more little leadership in the Free World to confront the rampaging hordes of wickedness threatening to enslave the world.

 It was in this very season that the phrase "Too Little, Too Late' was coined to show the lack of leadership and courage in the Free World. That phrase represents "the poverty of courage and creative leadership", of combat men and materials to face the rampaging hordes of naked outright fascistic terrorism assaulting the world. Just as it now is in our dear nation.

  No leadership. No courage. No conviction. Except among the fascists.

In 1938 it was Czechoslovakia and Austria where Hitler marched and swallowed in the face of British Appeasement.

In 1939 it was the turn of Poland. Hitler took over Poland with spoken words, without firing a shot. He was an orator.

In 1940 it was the turn of France, Belgium and Holland.

  And finally on Sunday morning December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, America got the message. In the following Spring 1942 in the Philippines Japanese Militarism came with full force and wiped out an entire torpedo fleet causing the fall of Beaten and Conequidor and forcing Gen. MacArthur to retreat to Australia - all the men of the tiny fleet wiped out.

  America got the message. Indecision is a decision. Refusing to fight and confront the enemy and a threat is itself a decision to submit to his tyranny.

Britain at last got the message: You don't appease the devil or a monster; you confront him.

   From 1938-41 there was too little courage and leadership in the world to face the threat. By the time the Free world would now come together to confront the enemy it was too late. 60 million souls had to perish to stop the tripod of evil led by Adolf Hitler. But if the threat had been confronted in 1938 more lives wouldn't have been wasted. Military experts estimated that at the most, 30,000 lives might have been lost to stop Hitler in 1938; but it was not done. So the war that Chamberlain feared eventually came and now 60 million lives had to perish.

  Too little, too late.

  These were the lessons of the World War but do we really learn? History is not only a faithful record of the past, it is also a prophecy of what is coming.

Today I see the same thing, the same processes at work in our nation. The same forces, the same strategies and shenanigans. And just like in the Free World of the 1930's there is no leadership, courage and conviction. While the forces of enslavers, tyranny are growing in their actions and bravery the forces of freedom are in disarray and unsure of even what action to take.

Last year the NBS gave us to know that banditry and kidnapping are the most lucrative trades in Nigeria before the report was pulled down by hackers. The wise will understand.

At least we all can now see that insecurity has worsened. Farmers are now in danger and their farms in more danger.

Few weeks ago the Afenifere Youth leader was captured on his way to Abuja around Akoko, one of the most dangerous spots and staging post of bandits and kidnappers. He wasn't released until his wife paid N17 million naira. 

   Few days ago the same bandits or herdsmen went to a community farm in Ondo State and killed 20 persons. The video was shown to all.

The latest video that touched me was that of herdsmen harvesting cassava in a Southeastern region to feed to their cows.

That is where we now are. Soon they will come to the cities and towns and to your houses to feed your foodstuffs to their cows and do what they like with your children and wives.

Just wait.

A monster is not stopped by persuasion, pleading or reason. Or even the appeal to Law. He is stopped only by what he believes in : Force.

When Hitler went to Czechoslovakia and Austria no one stopped him. The consequence: he proceeded to Poland, then to France... Belgium.

Before, the bandits were in the forest but now they operate from the highways. Now it is the farms and villages. Soon it will be your houses and right inside your towns.

In 2018 I warned the Yorubas about these and what to do. In 2020 I warned the entire Southerners ( and especially Yorubas) what steps they should take urgently. ( See *Something Has Happened to the Yoruba, 7 Dangerous Delusions Among Southerners* )

If they have heeded the lessons then it wouldn't have escalated to this level. 

  Then there was little courage and leadership in Yoruba land. The politicians would not say anything not to jeopardise their chances.

Bola Tinubu would not say anything because his eyes were on 2023 just as he won't say anything now because he is also focused on 2027. Human lives were expendables in 1941 when Macarthur retreated allowing a fleet to be wiped out; they are too now as the rulers keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I saw the report sent out by the Afenifere Youth leader asking for action now. He said the land has been encircled. So it is just now you are discovering that?

Poor you. Why didn't you join me to magnify the call in 2018, 2019 to 2023? It is late now.

It is now you know that your forests are surrounded? It is now you know that you are encircled? Because it happened to you? 

  This is the first phase. They need to impoverish your people first by collecting their money through kidnapping to fund their jihadist army. They need to destroy your harvest to create famine so you won't be able to fight when the D- Day comes. They need to instill fear into you to even step out of your house. Before they move to the last and final phase: attack or genocide. It happened in Turkey to the Armenians while the world was busy with the First World War and no one was watching. It could happen again.

  These are the ways of the tyrants and they are on course. All these were clear to me as far back as 2018. I knew this won't go away. I knew it would get worse.

 Now time has been lost. Now unity of purpose is lacking.

Where is the leadership today in Yorubaland? Where is courage and proactive thinking in the nation? Indecision, self-seeking, personal glory, love of pleasure... indifference.

The Oyo House of Representatives member, Mrs Sadipe declared the other day that in her constituency farmers could no longer go to farms because herdsmen have wrecked havocs everywhere. Didn't Yorubas hear her? Has there been any plan of action both then and now?

That is the modern Yoruba: no balls, no action, empty and loud- mouthed, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

  They are waiting for their traditional rulers.

The traditional rulers are waiting for the governors.

Governors are waiting for Tinubu.

 Tinubu is waiting for 2027...

Some are waiting for Yoruba nation to defend themselves against attacks in their own land.

Soon you will end up where you are headed.

Few days ago the forces of tyranny made another gain, dramatic gain on our watch. The "Supreme Court of judicial bandits"  in a judgement decided that a farmer Sunday Jackson who in an act of self-defense killed a Fulani assailant must die for - of all things - murder. Our judges said he should have fled rather than killing a Fulani man. They expected a man who eas wounded and stabbed on his leg to flee. This judgement would have been funny if it were not so pathetic.

  In John Bunyan's allegorical work, the masterpiece of all time, "Pilgrims Progress" we see how Christian and his companion were accosted when they got to Vanity Fair in the City of Vanity where they were arrested and brought before the judge of the Land whose name is Lord Hate-Good who sentenced them and confiscated their properties.

  Democracy is now Vanity Fair and Nigeria is now the City of Vanity.

  Lord Hate- Good is no more on the pages of imaginative Literature she now sit atop a Judas-iary backed by activist judges who make their own laws rather than interpret them. Judas loved his own nation more than his master and chose to betray the latter for the former; the judases in our Supreme Cult preferred to obey their puppet masters and let a nation go to blazes. They have therefore out- judas even Judas.

  You now understand and can now make meaning all the curious judgments that has been coming from that Cult. Why number 4 had to be elevated to become number 1; why a candidate who did not contest an election had to be rewarded with a ticket to represent his party and why it is punishable, contrary to the Law of God and Nature, for a man to defend himself on his own land and within his own space. You now understand why all enemies and perceived enemies of the Fascist Regime has been receiving unfavorable judgments from Lord Hate-Good's Court. The latest are Peter Odili and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. You will see worse things in the coming days.

Fascism is now on the march in our nation. Not just fascism but Islamofascism. The only organised forces and mobilized forces that I see today in Nigeria; the only coherent and raging power and the greatest threat to freedom today are the forces of fascism and Islamofascism in all their disguises, mutations and progression.

  They have taken over the Judas-iary. They control the Legislature - a body full of nihilists, moral anarchists, scavengers, drug addicts, sex- slaves, fraudsters with a sprinkling of few principled men too few to make any change.

 Need I talk of the Executhieves, the source and ocean of all pollution, defilement and unutterable vileness of the fountain of a nation? It took Nigerians 8 years to know that Buhari is not a democrat, how long will it take for Nigerians to discover that our man is more of a monarchist than a democrat?

  Fascism is on course. All the arms of government are now taken. They owned and control the press - the corrupt and compromised press. They largely control the civil society and its "hacktivists" - that are all over the place but no where on ground. And they owned and control the religious elements of major religions.

This is the very kind of climate conducive for control and domination; and to the fascistic takeover of a nation and any society.

Democracy is dead. First it was in Lagos where security was withdrawn from an elected speaker to a deposed speaker and a legislative decision overturned by the whims of one man sitting in Abuja.

  Now it is the turn of Rivers State where an elected governor, legislators, and all symbols of democracy, warts and all, have been disabled and a malleable legislature worse than even a footmat has rubber-stamped it by voice vote. And Madam Hate- Good's Judas-iary will equally affirm the illegality if the courts are approached.

Fascism is on course. Osun State could be the next. And nothing will happen. 

  

  In the 1930's - 40's there was the tripod of Tyranny struggling to enslave the world. In 2025 Nigeria there is the tripod of evil working to ensnare freedom and compromise Nigerian Secularity. There is the Fascistic Authoritarianism of APC Government, the Sharia ideology of Fulani Oligarchy presently on course in some Northern states and thirdly, there are the Rogue Elements ( similar to Hitler's Green Berets and Skinheads) consisting of Fulani bandits, herdsmen, terrorists, thugs, agberos etc., which the APC has never really fought and always treated with soft spots and respect. One ideology unites all of them at the top - Islamofascism. And they are working for the same goal at the end.

The Nazis started with burning books but later they burnt bodies and humans.

The Islamofascists of our nation started with breaking beer bottles and shutting hotels. Now they are shutting schools. Tomorrow they will shut churches and recreational centers and could arrest you one day if your beards are not long enough.

In 2018 I predicted this using the exact words. Has it not happened to us now?

In the 1930-40 there was a Roosevelt, a Churchill and a Stalin who finally rose up to challenge the rampaging forces of Fascism. In our nation today we have no Stalin, no Churchill, no Roosevelt, no Generals Patton or MacArthur. 

NANS is lost to reactionary forces.

NBA is a toothless bulldog.

NUJ is sick and nigh to death.

NLC has lost its ideological bearing.

ASUU - radical ASUU is wounded in the field of battle and now war- weary and nurturing its wounds.

NMA and NSE ( doctors and engineers) rarely dabble into politics preferring to face their private matters.

The Opposition is in disarray assuming there is anything that could be called by that name. PDP is not different from APC. LP is still in the womb of formation.

The religious bodies are weak. CAN is morally weak. PFN has no ideology that can power a national liberation or frighten a demagogue. It was Martin Luther who said, "He is a man who can speak forcefully to men." Such was Luther himself. Such was John Wesley, George Fox, William Wilberforce, John Calvin, Garrick Braide, William Harris, Joseph Babalola.... Alas, Nigerian Christianity has not a single man in the mold of such men listed above at this hour. I can't find a single one on the horizon.

  The only weapon and only thing left for Nigerians now is the Social Media which is also under assault of regulation and monitoring by the fascists in the Legislature

This is how an empire is lost; this is how civilization disappears from the radar. All the 26 civilizations studied by Professor Arnold Toynbee this was how they disappeared. They lost their spiritual initiative their zest, moral quality and creative element within their culture. 

  General Obasanjo said the other day that the traditional rulers have been taken over by drug addicts, fraudsters, sex- slaves.. The last pillar of culture and Cultural Renewal is lost. That is how nations die.

This is how a nation goes into slavery. This is how freedom is lost. It is not just because of the actions of the wicked but also because of the inactions, cowardice, lack of leadership and courage of the righteous majority. It is easy to lose freedom; it is not difficult to enslave liberty. Hitler disabled democracy within one month and few days in one of the most cultured nations on Earth. It is easy to lose liberty.

Now the forces of Fascism are united and have bared their fangs. They are marching on and what or who will stop them? What do we have to stop them?

Where is the courage? Where is the leadership? Have you heard even the Nigerian Governor's Forum to say anything against an illegality perpetrated against one of their own?

In 1938 courage was too little, by 1945 it was too late.

In 2015, 2023 Nigeria it was too little. Will it be too late too for us?

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE.

Full Scale War Looming in Nigeria as Fulani Terrorists Wipes Out the Army of Benin Republic, Over 600 killed, Loot heavy weaponry (VIDEOS)

Series of unconfirmed reports from social media has it the the Fulani bandit's/terrorist attacked Cotonou Barracks in Benin Republic, killed over 600 soldiers and carted away their arms and ammunition. 

Another social media source has it that Fulani Terrorists wipes out the Army of Benin Republic. Gathers heavy weaponry for FULL SCALE WAR in Nigeria.

Aside concurrent Fulani herdsmen and farmers clashes, Fulani bandits attacks and kidnapping have become endless in many parts of Nigeria. 

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A CALL TO ACTION: ADDRESSING THE SILENCE AND COMPLICITY OF FULANI LEADERSHIP IN THE ONGOING VIOLENCE ACROSS NIGERIA

To the Distinguished Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,

I write to you with a deep sense of patriotism and concern for the peace, unity, and future of our beloved nation. The continued silence of Fulani leadership over the heinous acts being carried out by some herdsmen across various states in Nigeria is not only deafening but deeply disturbing.

From Benue to Enugu, from Plateau to Ondo, from the forests of Ebonyi to the farmlands of Delta, there have been countless reports of Fulani herdsmen destroying farms, raping women, kidnapping, and killing innocent Nigerians. These criminal actions have resulted in the loss of lives, destruction of livelihoods, and the deepening of ethnic tensions across the federation. Yet, those who are known to lead and speak for the Fulani ethnic group have said little to condemn these acts or to call their people to order.

It is worth questioning why Fulani leaders often remain silent when innocent Nigerians are slaughtered, only to speak out in protest when retaliatory actions occur against the perpetrators. This selective condemnation fuels suspicion and a belief among many Nigerians that the Fulani elite may be quietly endorsing or turning a blind eye to these crimes for political or economic gain.

A dangerous question now looms large: Could this be a deliberate agenda to destabilize farming in Southern Nigeria so that only the North controls the nation's food production? If this is so, it not only undermines the spirit of national unity but threatens our collective food security and economic stability.

It is no longer acceptable for the Federal Government and security agencies to act as if they are helpless or indifferent. The perceived partiality of the state in handling herdsmen-related violence has led to growing anger, mistrust, and calls for self-defense. If this is allowed to persist, we risk plunging the country into a full-scale ethnic conflict.

Therefore, we respectfully demand the following from the Nigerian Senate:

1. An immediate investigation into the silence of Fulani leadership—religious, political, and traditional—regarding the atrocities committed by their people. Their failure to openly denounce violence and support justice suggests complicity.

2. A national summit on farmer-herder conflict, to include victims, leaders from all regions, civil society organizations, and the international community, to address this crisis once and for all.

3. A clear policy and action plan to disarm violent herders, protect rural communities, and hold anyone—regardless of ethnic group—accountable for violence.

4. An appeal to the international community, including the African Union, ECOWAS, and the United Nations, to intervene where necessary with peace-building efforts, humanitarian aid, and monitoring of human rights violations.

The time to act is now. We must not wait until more lives are lost or the country descends into chaos. The Senate must rise above politics and ethnicity to save Nigeria.

May justice, unity, and peace prevail.

Signed,

A Concerned Nigerian Citizen

Chief Joe Daniels Umezulike.

7/04/2025

At least, 60 killed in Plateau State

Plateau State has again become a killing field as the death toll from the recent attacks in Bokkos Local Government Area of the State has risen to 60  following the recovery of 40 more bodies on Wednesday and Thursday night.

NAN reports that 10 people were killed in Ruwi village of the aforementioned local government on March 27, 2025, while another 10 were killed on April 2, 2025, in a coordinated attack across several communities, including Mangor Tamiso, Daffo, Manguna, Hurti, and Tadai.

According to the Chairman of Bokkos Cultural Development Council (BCDC) Vanguard, Farmasum Fuddang, confirmed in a telephone interview on Friday morning in Jos that additional bodies had been found.

Farmasum said, “We released the statement about the killing of 10 people in Mangor Tamiso, Daffo, Manguna, Hurti, and Tadai on Wednesday morning. Since then, we have recovered 40 more bodies. We even buried them around 7 PM on Thursday using torchlights. It was the community members who discovered the bodies of their loved ones,” the BCDC chairman disclosed.

The tragic incident, allegedly carried out by yet-to-be-identified gunmen, has left the residents of Bokkos in mourning and fear. Troops of Operation SAFE HAVEN (OPSH), responsible for maintaining peace in Plateau State, reported that they successfully foiled attacks by armed groups on several communities in Bokkos LGA.

Major Samson Zakhom in a press statement made available to journalists in Jos, said that the militants targeted Tamiso, Daffo, Manguna, Tadai, and Hurti but were overpowered by the troops. The attackers were forced to abandon key items, including an AK-47 rifle and six motorcycles.

He noted that traces of blood were found along the attackers’ retreat route, indicating possible casualties among them.

“On April 3, 2025, further clearance operations were carried out at Hurti, where troops encountered and engaged militants hiding in the mountainous region,” he stated.

According to him, “The ensuing confrontation resulted in the recovery of a locally fabricated pistol, six rounds of 9mm ammunition, and four motorcycles.

“The troops are continuing efforts to neutralize the remaining militants still at large in the area,” he added.

He further disclosed that: “In a separate operation on the same day, troops of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Gashish conducted a search at a hideout in Barkin Ladi LGA of Plateau State, recovering a fabricated revolver rifle, 7.62mm ammunition, and a significant sum of cash, although the suspects managed to escape.

“Additionally, in Wase LGA, troops, in collaboration with local vigilantes, neutralized one bandit and recovered an AK-47 magazine and a motorcycle during an operation targeting bandits along Kampani Zurak Road.

“Operations will continue as part of the ongoing efforts to safeguard communities in Plateau State.”

At the time of filing this report, neither the OPSH nor the Police had provided any official casualty figures from 

the Bokkos attacks.

Meanwhile former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed deep concern over the recent spate of attacks in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State.

He lamented the incident where several communities were thrown into mourning following the killing of entire families in what he described as “yet another senseless attack.”

In a statement issued on Friday via X, Obi condemned the incident, which affected five communities in Bokkos—Mangor Tamiso, Daffo, Manguna, Hurti, and Tadai—saying the victims, including children and pregnant women, were buried in mass graves.

Uromi Hunters and their hunting games at Ruwi; a tale of two killings

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi

The scriptural accounts of the murder of Abel, a livestock rancher, by Cain, a sibling and cropper, demonstrate how being a fugitive became the penal bane of murderers: Cain became a fugitive! In a similar vein, Moses who also committed murder became a fugitive; but his subsequent divine encounter will make him the receiver of the law of God that transmuted the punishment of murder from ‘fugitivity’ to blood for blood!
Thereafter, murderers were therefore not permitted to be forgiven by claims to repentance, nor should they be permitted to flee and escape judgement; they must be apprehended and made to pay for their criminal acts of murder according to the law of the land where the murder crime(s) were committed!
In the past 10 years, Nigeria has witnessed so much bloodshed from criminal gangster murders without a commensurate intervention of the Government vide its relevant agencies to bring murderers to book in order to pay for their criminal acts!
To wit, Thursday, 27th March 2025, was two days to the 73rd birthday anniversary of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as well as a scheduled Festival of Arts and Culture of the Ron ethnic people of Bokkos LGA in Plateau State. Curiously, at a session to mourn the demise of a matriarch, 16 Ron ethnic people including a fetus were killed by fulani gangsters.
The fateful date in question would mark a stark reality in which the fgn will contrast the treatment of its citizens by ethnicity largely based on the verdict of the judiciary in the Sunday Jackson litigation. The contrast crystallized on the next day of Friday, 28th March 2025 when an incident in Uromi allegedly involving 16 fulani ethnic people was reported. The news from Uromi portrayed the 16 victims of the incident as those said to be hunters in the forest of Port Harcourt.
Those hunters were said to be traveling with stacks of money, cutlasses and guns! they were reportedly stopped by the Uromi vigilantes, who on sighting arms and ammunition insisted on a thorough search of the travelers. Uncensored report said one of the men onboard brought out his knife and stabbed one of the vigilantes. Other vigilantes were thereafter forced to sound alarm that drew the attention of an irate mob who overpowered the 16 onboard persons and killed them.
What a brutality of a tale of two extra judicial killings successively within 24 hours in Ruwi on the night of 27th March 2025 and that of Uromi by the next day; the incident of Uromi attracted swift reaction from the fgn, the CDS & CAN while both authorities delivered no whimpers about the incident of Ruwi.
Regrettably, the Ruwi incident and its neglect is simply a foretelling of the entire Middle Belt Region of Nigeria as a hunting field of the Fulani herdsmen without consequences.
Data sourced from Statistis.com & my article on the “365 days of Muslim/Muslim ticket in Nigeria referenced a review of the security situation in Nigeria by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, USCIRF. It confirmed that the Nigerian Government failed to verify the perpetrators of violent attacks and the motivation behind such carnage against Christians and other ethnic groups by the Fulani herdsmen who according to data provided by Intersociety killed 8,222 in 365 days.
When a goat is chased to the wall, it is left with the only option of fighting back. The same day the 16 Fulani were overpowered and killed in Uromi, their tribesmen had a successful killing expedition 11 Ron ethnic people the previous day at Ruwi.
While the Ron ethnic people were in a happy mood towards hosting their cultural festival, those who can’t stand seeing them happy, came attacking their reasons for happiness, consistently and continually at seasons of celebrations; either at Christmas or Easter but chose to show up again to smite the Ron people at the eve of Ron Cultural Festival. Unlike Uromi, where 16 Fulani herdsmen were killed, the Fulani herdsmen in Ruwi, slaughtered like Sallah rams just 11 “games,” including a fetus and an 8-year-old girl!
The sun that shone upon Uromi and Ruwi has exposed the hypocrisy of the fgn and CAN about our humanity; lack of responsibility of our government and its agencies. Our news media no longer represent the fourth estate of the realm; their pens no longer prick conscience. The dignity of humanity in Nigeria is graded by ethnic tribes and those who should care seem not to!
The President, without asking for the “cows” at Uromi, as his usual evidence of Fulani presence at the scene, has assured the world of justice to the FULANI victims and families of those killed and gave a marching order to the security agencies to go after the perpetrators and bring them to book. The voice of our President is yet to be heard on the extra judicial killing of his citizens like games in Ruwi and the slaughtering of a woman in the “forest” of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State. Maybe because the President is waiting to see “cows” in Ruwi as evidence of the culpability of Fulani herdsmen. May the soul of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Chief Reuben Fasoranti, the friend of the president, Rest In Peace.
The NPF has provided incontrovertible facts that Fulani gangsters killed Mrs. Funke Olakunrin. Curiously, the killers of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin that is even a kinswoman of the president, have yet to face justice; unlike the case of Sunday Jackson that is being maliciously prosecuted by the kinsmen of the assailant. When the president visited the parents of the deceased on condolence, rather than words of empathy, he chose to ask for presence of “cows” as evidence that Fulani were the assailants.
Could the revealed gang of Fulani herdsmen be members of the taunted forest cell units of Fulani operation spread across the country and of the two regions of South-West and South-South and into Ogun, Ondo and Edo States, who left behind their cows to attend to their real mission. If the President could play politics with the murder of the daughter of his very dear friend, then Nigerians better be careful and pay close attention to words and actions of Mr President as the 2027 election approaches.
Since the “superior” Fulani ethnic people are allegedly the victim at Uromi, the assurance of the Commander in Chief has to be doubled by that of the Chief of Defense Staff, General Christopher Musa, avowing justice for 16 Fulani travelers lynched in Uromi, but kept quiet on the 11 Ron ethnic people killed in their homeland by gangsters Fulani herdsmen!
Do all lives really matter in Nigeria? The poser is for the Nigerian Government and Nigerians, particularly CAN, (the Christian Association of Nigeria), whose members were hunted down at Ruwi but have failed to cry on their behalf. As for the federation president, the CDS and CAN president, the Ron Christians possibly must be ‘games in the forest of the Middle Belt’ like in the rest of the country!
CAN President who is a desperate sympathiser and advocate of Islam evidenced by his attendance at the dinner of the President and a mosque to break Ramadan fast. He has joined the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Chief of Defense Staff to mourn the death of the Fulani killed in Uromi but can’t find a word of comfort and assurance of safety for Christians murdered in Ruwi!
The CDS noted that the Uromi incident could have been avoided if the appropriate authorities had been notified and involved in verifying the identities of the victims. Ironically, the CDS brought us no word on the reported case of Istifanus Mangai, a Ron ethnic man, who was arrested and killed by the torture of “the appropriate authority” of the military at Daffo military base on the 31st December 2024 based on unproven accusations of a Fulani ethnic person. The extra judicial death of Istifanus Mangai in the hands of the military was aired to the world by the family cry from “ordinary Berekete radio” without a similar whimper of the CDS for justice to the family of the victim!
Though tribes and tongues may differ in Nigeria, when will all citizens, irrespective of tribes, tongues and religions be equal before the law and our political leaders? I hereby urge the global community to join me and the Ron ethnic people to demand an assurance of safety from the fgn, CAN and the Fulani herdsmen whose ‘games’ they have become. A word from the CDS on the fate of the kinsman of the Ron ethnic people, Istifanus Mangai, may help assure the American Government that other tribes in Nigeria are not just mere animals, whose lives can be cut at will by Fulani herdsmen hunters!
There should be no peace for all wicked men and women! This imbalance must be laid where it belongs; at the feet and doorsteps of British colonial imperialist who invaded the diverse territories of autochthonous ethnic peoples to create Nigeria and subsequently brokered a treaty with the “alien race” of Fulani to maintain their grips on Nigeria!




Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi, is absolutely a commendable brand in Apostolic and Nation Building efforts towards a changed nation and a renewed and revived church, within the Nigeria Church and political ecosystem.

Bandits demand N20m levies, taxes monthly from Benue communities

Suspected armed bandits operating in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State have reportedly commenced the collection of taxes and levies from residents of Torough and nearby communities.

It was gathered, yesterday, from a resident of the community, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of being attacked, that the gangs introduced a levy of N20 million as monthly tax to be paid by each household.

Source: Nairaland 

#PhotoSpeaks: A Benue Farmer posted — Fulani herdsmen openly gaze on my maize farm

 

Benue man posted 

"Fulani herdsmen openly gaze on my maize farm which is two hectres.The maize 🌽 farm which is supposed to harvest next month towards ending"

God be with Benue State 

Atleast, we've data to post it on social media. It's well.

Nigeria government keep making calls for the citizens to embrace and go to farm even with crud implements. 

But the deceitful APC LED federal government has refused to arrest insecurities posed by Fulani herdsmen, bandits, kidnapers among many othes. The party came to power in the promises to solve insecurity problems but has only compounded it. Hunger is ravaging the land ss result of food insecurity .

This is not peculiar to only Benue state. Many states of the federation are not secured from herdsmen havocs 

 They killed and raped at will.

Insecurity: Nigerian Army gets Aviation Wing, acquires fighter helicopters

The Nigeria's Federal Government has established an aviation wing for the Nigerian Army, and acquired fighter helicopters for its operations.

Major General Onyema Nwachukwu who is the Director of Army Public Relations confirmed that the BELL UH-1H, HUEY helicopters were received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Friday.

Nigeria since 2009 has been facing series of insecurity threats from Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits, herdsman and kidnapping among others.

NAF bombards bandit kingpin’s camp, kills 25 terrorists in Katsina

In an operation conducted yesterday, the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji successfully hit the camp of a notorious bandit kingpin, Alhaji Dutsi, in Katsina State.

The Nigerian Air Force airstrikes resulted in the elimination of over 25 terrorists, disrupting criminal activities in the area.

Boko Haram kills 20 in Niger State

No fewer than 20 persons were allegedly killed by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect at Bassa community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.

Out of the 20 deceased, 10 youths were purportedly slaughtered and their heads handed over to members of the community while the gunmen videoed them holding the heads.

The incident occurred at about 8 am on Friday.

Boko Haram unleashed terror on the victims, who only returned to their village to pick up some food items after they fled the community following the last attack on their village.

A source from the village claimed those killed were because they refused to be recruited as members of the dreaded sect, adding that the sect told them that anyone who refused to join them would be met with a similar fate.

Source: Nairaland

"WE WILL WORK TOGETHER TO FIGHT CRIMINALITIES ON THE PLATEAU" - GOC 3 DIVISION TO NEW CP

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division/ Commander Operation SAFE HAVEN (OPSH), Major General AE Abubakar has noted the significance of  synergy between security agencies in the fight against all forms of criminalities fueling crisis in some volatile areas of Plateau  State. The GOC/Commmander OPSH made this known, when the new Commissioner of Police, CP Emmanuel Olugbemiga Adesina paid him a courtesy visit at Headquarters 3 Division Nigerian Army, Maxwell Khobe Cantonment Jos. 

Major General Abubakar remarked that, the command vision and philosophy of the Chief of  Defence Staff, General CG Musa (OFR) and that of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen TA Lagbaja (NAM), were all clearly hinged on the significance of jointness, synergy and intelligence sharing in the defence of Nigeria. “If we're drawing from their philosophy and vision, we have no option but to work together as no one agency can do it alone. We must leverage on the strength of one another,” He noted. 

He assured the CP of his resolve to continue to strengthen the existing relationship between the Military and the Police on the Plateau, most especially on the speedy prosecution of suspects.The GOC further solicited for seamless and prompt dissemination of information amongst the security agencies, so as to ensure immediate and fast response to emerging security threats. 

While reiterating  the Nigerian Army's zero tolerance for infractions amongst her personnel and other agencies, he emphasized that the job is not a one-man business as all agencies must  work together in unison to enhance security. He further updated the CP on the joint kinetic and non- kinentic approaches such as stakeholders engagements, sensitization seminars and sporting activities as measures the Division and OPSH continually explore to consolidate on the relative peace achieved in the state and environs. 

Earlier in his remarks,  the Commissioner Of Police(CP), Plateau State command, CP Emmanuel Olugbemiga Adesina disclosed that the visit was necessary to familiarise himself with other security agencies and also seek for strengthened collaboration, partnership and robust synergy which he said was key to mitigating crime and ensuring peace on the Plateau. Such a visit he averred will further encourage and also boost the already strong mutual relationship, intelligence and information sharing among security agencies.

The Police Chief commended the GOC/Commander OPSH for his milestone achievements, efforts and giant strides in restoring law and order in troubled areas of the State. He enjoined the GOC/Commander OPSH to sustain and strengthen the security architecture put in place so that the peace achieved would be sustained. 

The visit was concluded with group photographs with the staff officers and Commanders of various units and formations under 3 Division and Plateau State Police Command

Source: NIGERIAN ARMY

OPINION: Owolabi - Murdered in Nigeria, buried in America

By

abiodun KOMOLAFE

On Nov 6, 2022

One of the greatest shortcomings of Nigeria’s existence is that she has never evolved into a nation. 

The amalgamation of territories, imposition of the colonial masters, the unfortunate intervention of the military and its attendant maladministration of the civil-society, and the corruption-infested politicians have not actually given the country that opportunity to realize her potentials. To be honest, it is because Nigeria’s handlers have different motives and a diametrically opposed understanding of the concept of development that her journey to nationhood has remained an illusion.

As we know, there is no generally acceptable interpretive understanding of the concept of development. For instance, part of the organic components of a nation is the understanding of the meaning of the concepts of citizenship. It is on this premise that a nation thrives. In other words, since no nation flourishes without its citizens, any nation that wants to thrive must have its organic components in place and the majority number of the population must share, intimately, the rudimentary knowledge and understanding of what it means to be a citizen, as agreed to, and enshrined in the constitution of Nigeria. Otherwise, it will just be as if one is running against the wind.

On July 28, 2022, Olugbenga David Owolabi was kidnapped alongside his staff, Rachael Opadele in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, by yet-to-be-identified kidnappers. Owolabi was a Nigerian-American who had come to Nigeria, to invest in the hospitality business in Ogbomoso, his hometown. On August 3, 2022, they were senselessly killed by their abductors, despite the payment of N5m ransom. Owolabi was buried on October 1, 2022 which, as fate would have it, coincided with a very important day in Nigeria’s chequered history. Opadele had earlier been buried in Ogbomoso, on August 5, 2022. Like the others, Nigeria has again succeeded in making the sun of three of her promising citizens set at dawn.

Olugbenga Owolabi is gone; and there’s nothing anybody can do to bring him back to life. But, if he had known that the country he called his own didn’t understand what it meant to be a citizen, he wouldn’t have come to Nigeria at all, not to speak of investing here. Let’s face it: the short time he spent in the USA – and he became a citizen – is now the only gift God has given him. From the time mappings for his life, all things being equal, if he had not come here, those unredeemed killers and haters who have turned Nigeria into a pool of blood would not have slaughtered him like a ram. Of course, they’d not have killed him without the American government deploying its entire arsenal for battle against his killers.

Typical of the Nigerianness in us, nobody is talking about who killed Owolabi; and neither Oyo State nor his Local Government has uttered a word; forget about admitting that the State has lost an illustrious son. Rather, it’s been business as usual, as if nothing happened. No justice! Not even a show of pretence for it! Sad that, even up to the point of the corpse being flown abroad, no Nigerian officials were seen to have shown any semblance of sympathy, either by words or actions. Well, that’s to show how horrible our system is. In our clime, the worth of a citizen has gone into a nosedive! Why then should one die for the country?

Owolabi’s unfortunate death is not the first; certainly, it won’t be the last either! Since his murder, several other unresolved murders have taken place. Yet, the heavens have not fallen! And who cares? After all, those who died did not belong to the families of members of the ruling class. So, life goes on! But, again, this is Nigeria! America takes care of her living and the dead! Nigeria does neither! Here in Nigeria, life no longer has any meaning! Ours is a generation of wasters, in a very dangerous country! Against the backdrop of our illimitable woes, the leaders _“daily call on the citizens to make sacrifices while they (the leaders) wallow in privilege.”_ Tragically, the leadership doesn’t even understand why and how the country is being led to a moral free fall in all areas.

The general assumption is that Nigeria is a sovereign state, but the current state of heightened insecurity only suggests that she may have already been stripped of her sovereign attributes. Otherwise, how do we describe events in the land which have only shown that our leaders are in a wide sea of uncertainty with regard to how a nation evolves; the inalienable rights of a citizen, and why he or she must be accorded such? Remember the 2013 Boston Marathon domestic terror attack and how the American government rose to the occasion! Remember how US Special Forces rescued Philip Walton, an American citizen held hostage in Nigeria in 2020! Here in Nigeria, the late Hamani Tidjani was only unlucky to have positioned his wind vane wrongly. And he paid dearly for it! On Owolabi’s gruesome murder, even the texture and essence of the _Nigerians in Diaspora Commission_ (NIDCOM) seem to have been seduced into compliance with sickening silence.

Had Oyo State Government been truly there for those it was elected to serve, somebody in government would have noticed the state administrative protocol gap in Owolabi’s unfortunate murder, and would have issued a statement on behalf of the government. That his remains were taken back from the land of his birth for internment in a foreign, adopted country was a big shame of unimaginable proportions. But again, how did we get here? For God’s sake, how does one belong to a country where human lives are not valued; where _“yesterday’s dreams have become the worst nightmares”;_ where _“very sharp pieces of broken promises”_ have become the new ideology? And, if we may ask: what is the functional relevance of Nigeria’s sovereignty? Isn’t that why a Leah Sharibu could still be languishing in the terrorists’ den even as the government continues to behave as if it never happened?

The social thoughts of a society, I was made to understand, undergird the thought flows of its citizens. For example, when President John F. Kennedy famously urged Americans “ask not what” their _“country can do for”_ them but _“what”_ they _“can do for”_ their _“country’,_ that became the mantra in the USA that even a kid in that _‘God’s own country’_ was always ready to die for the American flag. On the converse, have we asked why Nigeria now looks _“like a boiling pot that everyone wants to escape from”_ and why Nigerians are with misdirected aggression prepared to _‘japa’_ into certain deaths in Ukraine?

With happenings like this in Nigeria, national consciousness and the concept of patriotism are on the verge of losing both their meanings and relevance; of course, with huge national security implications! Nigeria may also lose investors and her capacity for economic growth will be hindered. To put it bluntly, what it means is that, once the central value of citizenship is lost, the entire country is lost. The more reason the handlers of Nigeria must do a new orientation programme that will teach Nigerians to be patriotic. In doing this, the government should lead by example. Otherwise, the scheme will fall like a pack of cards.

May the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, rest the souls of the faithful departed and grant us peace in Nigeria!

 _*KOMOLAFE wrote in from Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State (ijebujesa@yahoo.co.uk; 07087941459 - SMS only)_

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