Hon. Robert Dornan: Another top U.S politician vows to table IPOB's case against Nigeria before The U.S congress and U.N

Tuesday 06 September, 2016

Another top politician of the United States of America, also an ex U.S Congressman, Hon Robert Dornan has renewed his call for Biafra referendum, with an affirmation to table IPOB's cause before the U.S Congress through his ex-colleagues and progressively press the matter to the United Nations.

Robert who served between 1977 and 1997, says that conducting referendum will enable the south eastern people of Nigeria decide their political future, adding that the ongoing agitation in the country will escalate into armed conflict if Muhammadu Buhari does not heed the call for referendum.

It could be recalled that Mr. Dorman was earlier quoted as saying, “I say, the Biafrans have known suffering and death and as a responsible witness to that holocaust and as a Christian man of honor I add my voice to those calling for an internationally recognized referendum on the future of Biafra.”.                          

It was also gathered that Mr Dornan's noble stance and renewed call came following reports of extra-judicial killings as reported by IPOB and authenticated by Amnesty International, and also Fulani herdsmen activities in communities of south east region of Nigeria, with no single case of arrest and prosecution.

According to reports, “No single case of police arrest and prosecution of the band of marauders has been made by Nigeria’s security forces and this exposes over 40 million people in the south-east of Nigeria to the danger of extinction.

We are hereby urging other noble men and women of goodwill all over the world to wade into the Biafra case and support our quest for the restoration of Biafra.


By Nwosu C.S

Femi Fani Kayode: Nigeria and the implications of a Donald Trump Presidency (part 1)

By Femi Fani Kayode
September 5th, 2016I support Mr. Donald J. Trump's presidential bid because he has admitted publicly that the American-inspired removal of Arab secularist leaders like Saddam Hussein, Muammar Ghadaffi, Hosni Mubarak and, more recently, the attempt to remove Bashir Al Assad were wrong, short-sighted, counter-productive and have led to nothing but chaos.

How many politicians, from either side of America's political divide, have that level of vision and understanding of world affairs?

How many have the courage to admit that succcesive American Presidents, including George W. Bush who was a Republican like him, were wrong on this issue?

Hussein, Ghadaffi, Mubarak and Al Assad were/are, though dictators, moderate Muslims who fought and supressed the Islamist terrorists and islamic fundamentalism in their respective domains.

Since the time they were removed or bogged down in fighting a civil war, as is the case with Assad, the Middle East, north, east and west Africa, Europe and indeed the world has become a far more dangerous place.

The Obama/Clinton/Kerry administration (whom I often refer to as the "evil triumvirate" or the "unholy trinity") helped the islamist terrorists to spread their violence and evil throughout the world more than any other government in the entire history of the United States of America.
The questions that those that doubt my assertions need to answer are as follows:

• 1. Why did it take the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumverate literally three years to designate Nigeria's Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation and why is it that they waited until over 100, 000 innocent Nigerians were killed before they did so in 2014.

• 2. Why did the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumverate impose an arms embargo on Nigeria when President Goodluck Jonathan was in power and why did they stop the entire western world, including Israel, from selling us arms to fight Boko Haram? Who benfitted from that policy more than Boko Haram itself and those in Nigeria that were using them to discredit and fight the government?

• 3. Why did the Obama/Clinton/Kelly triumverate encourage their closest Arab allies, including the Saudi Arabians, the Qataris and the Turks, to fund islamist terror groups like the Al Nusra Front and ISIS in Iraq and Syria?

• 4. Why was Mubarak removed and replaced with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt? How could this have been allowed to happen? It could only have happened under the rulership of the triumverate. Mubarak's Egypt was America's greatest ally in North Africa and the Arab world and she was Israel's best friend. When the Muslim Brotherhood came to power they got it so wrong that the Egyptian military had to do a coup, topple them and come back.I am sure that the Obama administration were not too pleased with that because they were very comfortable with the Muslim Brotherhood and they welcomed their islamist agenda and anti-Israerli-sentiments.

• 5. How can the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumvirate justify the mess in Libya? They ensured that they toppled Ghadaffi through their Libyan and Gulf Arab state surrogates and European allies and after that Al Qaeda and ISIS moved in and flooded the place.Libya is now in anarchy, turmoil and chaos and the terrorists control more parts of it than the government does.

• 6. Why did the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumvirate bring the relationship between Israel and the U.S. to such an all-time low that, for the first time since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, an Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu, visited America in his official capacity without seeking or being granted audience by the President of the United States?

Those that think Clinton will not continue the evil that she and Obama started seven years ago in the name of political correctness and the subtle promotion of radical islam and terror are either dangerously naive or ignorant or both.
Trump has declared that his foreign policy will be focused on one thing: the elimination and destruction of those that espouse terror and radical islam and the protection of those that are victims of radical islam and the jihadi terrorists throughout the world.

He has rejected the Obama/Clinton/Kerry approach of trying to appease the terrorists.That is good enough for me. That is the only way forward if we want a better and safer world.

On 25th August 2016 Mr. Babatunde O. Gbadamosi wrote the following on his Facebook:

• "Trump must win. Kerry and the Democrats see Southern Nigeria as Fulani conquered territory, and the Fulanis as our masters.I say a prayer for Donald Trump today: May the Lord of hosts grant him resounding victory in the US Presidential elections, in Jesus' name".

I say a big "amen" to that. The complicity of the Obama administration in what is going on in our country is self-evident.

They have weakened, undermined and further divided our nation by interfering in our internal political affairs and by encouraging and supporting an incompetent, sectional, dictatorial and essentially islamist government whose intention is to intimidate, bully and brow-beat our people into a cowering and grovelling silence, submission, slavery and captivity.

The support that the Obama administration and the Democrats generally appear to be offering the Buhari administration and the dark forces that they represent makes it imperative for any right-thinking person that believes in the secularize of the state, the plurality of our nation, the sanctity of our constitution and laws and the equality of all religious faiths and ethnic nationalities in our country to pray for Trump to prevail.

That the Obama/Clinton/Kerry triumvirate and unholy trinity assisted President Buhari to come to power last year is no longer disputable.

That they had nothing but contempt and disdain for President Goodluck Jonathan simply because he refused to be their puppet, he refused to work for the CIA and for the establishment of a demonic "new world order" and he rejected the notion that gay rights and gay marriage should be given pride of place in our laws and his policies is a matter of fact.

That Obama's campaign manager David Axelrod was paid large sums of money (which according to some reports ran into 10 million US dollars) to assist the Buhari campaign is no longer debatable.

That the Obama administration has turned a blind eye to the massive violation of human rights and civil liberties in our country and the perpetration of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide against our people cannot be denied.

That the CIA, through its various fronts and surrogates in the international private sector, is quietly selling the idea that the hausa language ought to be the lingual franca of Nigeria and the indigenous language that our nation ought to be identified with is increasingly obvious.

That John Kerry came to Nigeria a couple of weeks ago and insulted the collective sensibilities of the entire south and every self-respecting Christian in the country by visiting the Sultan of Sokoto, a handful of core northern Muslim governors, an "Arewa-loving" Buhari and no-one else is irrefutable.

Not only did the Christian Association of Nigeria condemn this in very strong terms but such was the angst that it provoked that Mr. Kingsly Okah, a respected essayist and political commentator, was constrained to write the following:

• "John Kerry came for the Sultan of Sokoto's birthday and not a state visit. He came to perfect the western seed of discord foisted on us by the ouster of President Goodluck Jonathan. He came to lay credence to the American support of an Islamic agenda in Nigeria. He came to endorse genocide being commited by some reprobate Muslims whose foot soldiers are Fulani herdsmen and their grand patron Buhari".

To butress the point Mr. Galadima of the Christian Information Network went further by writing the following to its members. He wrote:

"This is such a significant event that minority nationalities and Christians all over the country MUST digest and act.

• 1. John Kerry has just confirmed that spiritually, Nigeria is now an lslamic State.

• 2. His inspiring attacks on corruption, bad governance and all that stuff are thrilling but only a facade. He and the government of the United States of America are here to divert attention from the real thing.

• 3.They are pushing the absurd narrative that we should blame past governments, who they claim did not tackle poverty etc., for the rise of lslamic terrorism in the north and that the Sokoto Caliphate has always been the region which provides Nigeria with decent human resources for good governance.

Haba!! Please somebody advise me to halt for now. These diversions should be rejected and resisted. The legality of using lslam to kill and destroy in Nigeria must be challenged. This Network should keep this fight alive and on the front burner of national discourse".

Can anyone seriously dispute the veracity of both Okah and Galadima's assertions? Are they not absolutely right?
In a country that is multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-lingual and in a nation in which the south rightfully believes that it is presently under siege and in the process of being systematically enslaved, these things cannot be defended, rationalised or justified under any circumstances.
Not only is it utterly reprehensible but it also confirms the fact that Obama and his triumverate are not only partial to the Muslim north but that they also have a hidden agenda to further divide Nigeria along religious and ethnic lines and perhaps cause another major conflict just as was done in Syria.

A vote for Clinton is a vote to continue this shameless and utterly dangerous policy. Worst still a Clinton victory would ultimately cost Nigeria dearly.

Donald Trump, who is well known for his disdain and contempt for radical Islam, his rigid opposition to islamist intolerance and jihadi terrorism and his concerns about the activities of those that seek to establish a new world caliphate where sharia law is applied to all and where Christians and non-Sunni Muslims are slaughtered and killed, would have none of that.
And neither would he, his Republican party or the evangelical Christian movement in the United States of America, who are solidly behind him, support or engender such an evil agenda. (TO BE CONTINUED).

United Nation Report on Nigeria current situation

United Nations In A Report Just Released On Nigeria’s Common Country Analysis Has Described The Country As Deeply Divided

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• United Nations in a report just released on Nigeria’s Common Country Analysis has described the country as deeply divided

• Paints gloomy picture of economy

The United Nations (UN) in a report just released on Nigeria’s Common Country Analysis (CCA), has described the country as deeply divided.
According to the report, which was read during a consultative meeting on the formulation of the UN Development Assistance Framework  IV (UNDAF IV) for the South-East geo-political zone in Awka, showed Nigeria as a “divided society on the basis of the plurality of ethnic, religious and regional identities that had tended to define the country’s political existence.”

The report observed that, for decades, different segments of Nigeria’s population had, at different times, expressed feelings of marginalisation, of being short-changed, dominated, oppressed, threatened, or even targeted for elimination.

It also painted a gloomy picture for the country as most of the development and social indices in Nigeria recorded much below acceptable standards.
The major challenges facing Nigeria, according to the report, were constraints of economic growth and social development and lack of good governance. The report also noted that “the situation was exacerbated by the existence of systematic accountability challenges at the federal, states and local government levels.”

It said: “Nigeria is one of the poorest and most unequal countries in the world, with over 80 million or 64 per cent of her population living below poverty line. Poverty and hunger have remained high in rural areas, remote communities and among female-headed households and these cut across the six geo-political zones, with prevalence ranging from approximately 46.9 per cent in the South-West to 74.3 per cent in North-West and North-East.

“Nigeria’s economy is currently in a recession and it is estimated that government revenues have fallen by as much as 33 per cent, which has further resulted in the contraction of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 0.36 per cent in the first three months of 2016.
“The vulnerable macroeconomic environment in Nigeria is affecting investors’ confidence in the domestic economy.”

According to the report, despite Nigeria’s enormous resources, 37 per cent of children under five years old were stunted and 29 per cent underweight due to malnutrition just as only 10 per cent of children aged six to 23 months were fed appropriately based on recommended infant and young children feeding practices.

The report also revealed widespread cases of violence against women and girls, including physical and sexual assault, adding that 42 per cent of the youths were unemployed, “a situation that had led to poverty, helplessness and despair, thereby exposing them to easy target for crime and terrorism,” while over 10 million children of school age were out of schools with no knowledge and skills.
It also said, “despite the fact that Nigeria is a signatory to a number of protocols on sustainable and renewable environment, the country had, over the decades, failed to protect the environment, ecosystem and natural resources.

“Nigeria faces humanitarian and emergency crises of considerable proportions fueled by a combination of factors including climate change, inter-communal conflicts and violence, insurgency, recurring floods, heavy handed tactics of security forces in combating crime and insurgency. The overall consequence is the situation of systematic and chronic internal displacement that has given rise to different humanitarian crises that include the most egregious and dehumanising human rights abuses.”

It, therefore, recommended that “transforming and diversifying Nigeria’s development paths needed a radical and new approach, especially by investing in people and in a strong more dynamic and inclusive productive informal sector,” just as the agency called for a design and support of joint programmes to address good governance, peace and security.

Charly Boy: this change na "419" change

Buhari We've Had Enough Of Your "419" CHANGE: We Don't Need A Dullard In Aso Rock~Charly Boy

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Sunday 04 September, 2016

Showbiz mogul, Charlyboy, popularly known as AreaFada, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to take the welfare of the common Nigerians as his priority, else Nigeria and Nigerians will die in his hands. In an open letter to the President, the outspoken media personality said Nigerians are surely dying and, quickly.

AreaFada wrote: “Mr President Sir, I trust that this meets you well.“I know it has not been easy since you came on board, so many wahalas, so much yawa, frustration and hopelessness.“First rule of leadership: everything is your fault. Sir, Nigerians are surely dying and, quickly. They can no longer see the light, they feel the Heat.

The welfare of the common man must be your top priority henceforth or God forbid, Nigeria and Nigerians will die in your hands.“Since you assumed office as President of Nigeria, there has been a remarkable dissonance within your government. I wonder who is in charge. Sometimes I wonder whose thoughts you’re thinking or whose agenda you’re executing; while at other times, I wonder if you are held hostage by the gangsters called The Cabal.

“Can you say you are oblivious of the hardship and suffering we all are going through? I remember two years ago when I visited the Aso villa, then occupied by your predecessor. During our discussion and my lamentation about the Nigerian youths I was not particularly shocked by a reaction that seemed like one throwing both hands in the air and saying “Charly, I am held hostage here, I am surrounded by enemies”.

“Sir, are you the one in charge or like your predecessor, are you being held hostage by the cabals and obnoxious sycophants, so much so that our plight and cries as Nigerians are none of your concern? Na wa o, this is certainly not the change we thought you promised or do we just assume that your words don’t mean much?“Oga mi, abegi check the matter, you cannot ignore the five percent of voters who did not vote for you but whose resources the country depends on as alarm don blow, to cater for the 97 percent who voted for you.

 This kind “one chance” is sending a wrong signal to the whole country.“Sometimes I just wonder how things can function properly when the formation and the foundation of the ruling party is not based on any sound ideology, but on frustration, bitterness, divisive politics and a gathering of strange bedfellows. Kai!!!“Presido, this your war on corruption, is somehow o.

Need I say that corruption is not only about stealing funds, it is also about putting bad people in prime positions who have neither the passion nor the qualification to do the bloody job. This form of corruption is crippling Nigeria, meeeen!!!“As I scan through your ministries and key positions, I wonder how come it is full of village friends with the qualification to the post is just to be a clan member.

When leaders, out of fear, realize that their lack of capacity could have consequential effects, they resort to nepotism to protect self.“It should be a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead, especially if you don’t know who and who is just washing you. Na so.“My people, simple and short, fear dey catch me for the future of our country. I know that there is no vaccine against mismanagement/incompetence.

Most Naijas may have concluded that the CHANGE mantra was only 419. There is great fear in the land, most people are not sure where the country is headed, and what many Nigerians are asking is whether you feel us, your subjects, if you feel our plight at all.“I see so many of my people walking with their heads dangling over their shrinking shoulders, being swept by hunger and poverty in the land of plenty. God are you there?

“My people are desperate for someone to believe in, Nigerians needs a Talk and Do Presido, no go-slow for the matter because many things don scatter. We certainly need someone who practically leads us through this pain with sincere action and not mere intents or words. I don talk my own,” he wrote.

Source:Daily Post

United State Congressman wants security assistance to Nigeria withheld

JOHN KERRY, RECEIVES SHOCKING LETTER FROM CONGRESSMAN TOM MARINO... ACCUSES BUHARI OF AUTOCRATIC TENDENCIES, NEPOTISM, AND EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS OF UNARMED IPOB PROTESTERS.

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• Wants security assistance to Nigeria withheld

A member of the United States Congress, Tom Marino, has written a letter to Secretary of State, John Kerry, asking the US government to withhold security assistance to Nigeria until President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrates a “commitment to inclusive government and the most basic tenets of democracy: freedom to assemble and freedom of speech”.

He also asked the State Department to refrain from selling warplanes and other military equipment to Nigeria until President Buhari establishes a track record of working towards inclusion.

In a two-page letter dated September 1, 2016 and addressed to Kerry, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by THISDAY yesterday, Marino, a Republican from Pennsylvania who assumed office on January 3, 2011, said there were a number of warning signs emerging in the Buhari administration that signal “the man who once led Nigeria as a military dictator might be sliding towards former autocratic tendencies”.

The Congressman, who is a member of the Committees on the Judiciary, Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs, and the Chairman, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law, said Nigerian government must “hold accountable those members of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Military complicit in extra-judicial killings and war crimes”.

In the six-paragraph letter to Kerry, Marino also expressed concern over Nigeria’s anti-corruption war, saying “of additional concern is President Buhari’s selective anti-corruption drive, which has focused almost exclusively on members of the opposition party, overlooking corruption amongst some of Buhari’s closest advisors. Politicizing his anti-corruption efforts has only reinforced hostility among southerners”.

His letter to Kerry reads: “Dear Secretary Kerry, I am encouraged by the personal interest you have taken in aiding Nigeria and its administration as it takes on endemic corruption, multiple insurgent movements, and a faltering economy. However, I believe there are a number of warning signs emerging in the Buhari administration that signal “the man who once led Nigeria as a military dictator might be sliding towards former autocratic tendencies.”

“I would urge the U.S. to withhold its security assistance to the nation until President Buhari demonstrates a commitment to inclusive government and the most basic tenets of democracy: freedom to assemble and freedom of speech. A logical start towards this commitment is for the Nigerian government to hold accountable those members of the Nigerian Police Force and the Nigerian Military complicit in extra-judicial killings and war crimes”.

“Human rights groups like Amnesty International have widely documented torture, inhumane treatment, and extra-judicial killings of defenseless Nigerians since President Buhari took office.”

Quoting Amnesty International Report, he wrote, “in the last six months, Nigeria’s military has unlawfully killed at least 350 people and allowed more than 168 people, including babies and children, to die in military detention.”

He further wrote: “The Secretary to the Government of Kaduna State even admitted to burying 347 of those killed in a mass grave. And while President Buhari promised swift condemnation, his words rang empty. Instead of swift reforms, Buhari chose to reinstate Major General Ahmadu Mohammed, who Amnesty International revealed was in charge of the Nigerian military unit that executed more than 640 unarmed, former detainees.

“Also, in separate incidents concerning the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the Nigerian Army has killed at least 36 – the real number is likely higher – people since December 2015 in an attempt to silence opposition and quell attempts by the group to gather publicly.”

Describing President Buhari as a former military dictator whose reign (as military head of state) was cut short by a coup, he stated that the President has continually shunned inclusivity in favour of surrounding himself with advisors and ministers from the north of the country and the region he considers home.

“Of President Buhari’s 122 appointees, 77 are from the north and control many of the key ministries and positions of power. Distrust is already high in Nigeria and favouring Northerners for key appointments has only antagonized the issue. These appointments are also primarily Muslim in the north and Christian in the south, adding a religious aspect to long-held regional biases.

“Of additional concern is President Buhari’s selective anti-corruption drive, which has focused almost exclusively on members of the opposition party, overlooking corruption amongst some of Buhari’s closest advisors. Politicizing his anti-corruption efforts has only reinforced hostility among southerners,” he claimed in the letter.

He said the Obama Administration would advance justice by urging the Buhari Administration to act decisively to hold accountable members of the police and military.

The congressman said, “This is a logical first step in making a demonstrable, sustained commitment to inclusive democracy, with distributed power in Nigeria. Until President Buhari establishes a track record of working towards inclusion, we ask the State Department to refrain from selling warplanes and other military equipment to the country.

“The State Department should urge President Buhari to form a government that represents the diversity of its citizens and allows dissenting voices to be heard. Democracy can thrive only if people are free to assemble, to express their beliefs, and voice their concerns.”

Femi Fani-Kayode vs Reno Omokri

Kerry Comes To The North, And Sees The Sultan Of Sokoto, One Week Later, Facebook Founder Comes To Nigeria, And Says Hausa Is A “Unique Language”. Think! Nigerians Think!” - Fani-Kayode FEATURED, NIGERIA,

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg’s three-day visit to Nigeria has left a trail of excitement, hope, and joy, especially in the tech community in the country.

But for two “friends” who worked for former President Goodluck Jonathan, it was heated words on the topical issues of ethnic identities, Northern domination, and political persecution.

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former two-time minister and former director of media and publicity for the Goodluck Jonathan re-election campaign and Reno Omokri, a former aide on new media to the President Goodluck Jonathan got into a Facebook fight that will be remembered for a long time.

Fani-Kayode took to his Facebook page to express reservation with Zuckerberg’s description of the Hausa Language as “unique”, but Omokri, decided to “reprimand” the former minister for his comments, suggesting that Fani-Kayode was “making Hausas the enemy”.

Fani-Kayode wrote, “Kerry comes to the North, and sees the Sultan of Sokoto, Buhari, and northern governors. One week later, Facebook founder comes to Nigeria, and says Hausa is a “unique language”, which he has included on Facebook. Think! Nigerians think!”

Reno Omokri commented:

“Olufemi Olu-Kayode I do not understand why Kerry did what he did, but as for Zuckerberg, all he did was state a fact. After Swahili, Hausa is perhaps the most widely spoken language in sub Saharan Africa. That is why BBChausa, Voahausa, Deutschewelle and other world radio services all have broadcasts in Hausa. We must applaud what Zuckerberg has done and not cast suspicion around it. Doing so may encourage him to add other indigenous Nigerian languages as Facebook languages. That said, I appreciate a lot of your writings and suggestions. Well done.”

In response to Omokri’s comment, the former aviation minister wrote a politically charged comment:

“Thanks for taking your time to respond to my post. Permit me to respond to you very briefly.

“What Mark Zuckerberg said about the Hausa language being “unique” is not a fact but an opinion. And it is an opinion which, in fairness to him, may well be honestly held.

“It is also an opinion which you evidently share and which both you and he are perfectly entitled to. I am, however, entitled to disagree with you on that opinion especially where I have good reason to do so.

“You see unlike most I do not post, speak or write lightly. I take my time, I do my research and I am very precise. That is my style and nature.

“The choice of Hausa being put on Facebook is not just a matter of “linguistic uniqueness” I assure you. And to honestly believe that it is borders on pure naivety.

“There is nothing unique about the number of countries in West Africa that speak Hausa and I do not believe that Hausa is the most widely spoken language in West Africa though many often say it is.

“It is rather like the common refrain that the Hausas number more than any other nationality in Nigeria when we all know how and when that particular dirty lie came about and how the British constructed it by counting the cows of the North and adding them to the number of northerners that they counted in the first census.

“If the truth be told even then and up until now the Igbo and the Yoruba are more than the Fulani and the Hausa.

“If you doubt my assertion about the lack of uniqueness of the Hausa language please. Do the research and find out how many countries that Yoruba, for example, is spoken both in West Africa and outside of the African continent in South America and the Caribbean.

“Also read up on the history of the BBC and VOA Hausa Service and why they were set up by their respective governments. Ditto the German Hausa radio service and others.

“It made perfect sense because most Hausa men carried radios around with them everywhere they went whilst their southern compatriots, being far more advanced and educated, prefered reading newspapers and watching television.

“It is not just a matter of linguistic uniqueness I assure you but evidence of the fact that the British particularly always had, and still have, a strong partiality for the Hausa Fulani compared to any other nationality in Nigeria.

“The reasons for that are legion so I won’t go into them here. Needless to say though, the history on this matter is very clear and I suggest you read up on it.

“It appears that the American authorities, at least the Obama/Kerry/Clinton brigade, are following in the footsteps of the British colonial masters in terms of their preferred friends in Nigeria and indeed American private companies like Facebook, just like the giant British private trading companies did in the former British colonies before them, are towing the line of their respective governments. It is not too difficult to work that one out for the intelligent.

“I guess only time will tell if I am right but these are my views. In any case I wonder how many Hausa-speaking people are on Facebook when compared to Yoruba and Igbo.

“I read far more into this matter than you do because I am not just a politician but a historian. I also have my views about the social media generally, its link to the top western intelligence agencies and what its ultimate objective is.

“I have been proved right in the end on most of my assertions about unfolding events in this country and indeed world affairs as you may or may not know. I doubt that this will be any different.

“Unlike most people I do not let my friendship or personal-liking or disliking of an individual becloud my judgement.

“My reasons for believing what I believe will be made manifest at the appropriate time.

“If you are really interested in knowing what those reasons are I suggest you exercise a little patience and you will find out.

“You may even learn something from it. By the way, unlike you, I think it would be an excellent innovation if Facebook introduced other Nigerian languages like Igbo, Yoruba, Ijaw, etc.. As far as I am concerned the more inclusive it is the better.

“I wish you well and please keep writing those excellent essays on the situation in our country. Shalom.”

To the non-so-brief comment, Omokri replied:

“You say I am naive for accepting, as Zuckerberg does, that the Hausa language is unique. Really? Hausa language is the only indigenous African language that is officially spoken in five African nations including Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Cameroun, and Sudan. If your argument is true and I am indeed naive then you would have to agree with me that BBC News, Radio France Internationale, Voice of America – VOA, DW Deutsche Welle, China Radio International and Voice of Russia are equally naive, because, like Facebook, they all have a Hausa language service.

“You may be right about the British/American conspiracy. I never delved into that and I defer to your superior knowledge of history and statecraft. My point of departure from you was strictly and solely as touching your insinuation against Mark Zuckerberg.

“The mistake we in the South often make is to see ordinary Hausa as our enemies. Not true. The Hausa as a people are some of the most decent Nigerians and are to be differentiated from the feudalists who have retarded their progress as an ethnic nationality. What they need from progressive and freedom loving Nigerians  is solidarity not hostility. This was the point of view that the late Aminu Kano tried to pass across to us down South.

“What Facebook has done deserves commendation and not condemnation. Again, having said this, I must maintain that I have a high regard for your intellect and this intervention should not be interpreted as a confrontation.”

Fani-Kayode, finally lost his cool and reminded Omokri that he “was probably in diapers” when he (Fani-Kayode) fought the Abacha military junta. He accused Omokri of abandoning people detained by Buhari’s government just because they supported a Christian president in the 2015 elections, and many other accusations.

He also accused Omokri of sitting in the “relative safety of California” to criticise the Buhari government while others are risking their lives in Nigeria to do the same thing.

Fani-Kayode wrote:

“Reno Omokri, now I am beginning to get a little irritated by you… In any case, are you the spokesman of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, or indeed that of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria? Is that your new job since you stopped working under my friend and brother Reuben Abati at the Villa and managing social media for the Jonathan administration?

“And if you insist on being their defender-in-chief, when were you appointed? Honestly, Reno my dear little brother, you need to have your little bottom spanked for being so cheeky and naughty.

“I have known the north and interacted with northerners far more than you and for far longer, so I don’t need lessons from you or anyone else about  who or what they are, either for good or for bad.

“And neither do I need to say only things that are politically correct about them. Or anyone else because, unlike you, I have paid my dues politically and in terms of public commentary for over a period of 27 years.

“I worked in the presidency as President Obasanjo’s spokesman as far back as 13 years ago. I don’t know where you were then.  I ran, not one, but two federal ministries as the Hon. Minister over 10 years ago, and since then I have been in the thick of the political fray and drama.

“I know who I am and I don’t need to please anyone with what I say. I was in NADECO risking my life fighting against military rule and for the late Chief MKO Abiola’s June 12th mandate when you were probably still wearing diapers.

“I know the north, and indeed this whole country far better than you ever possibly could, and over the years I have gained and gathered a lot of experience.

“I have also suffered for Nigeria far more than you have. I say this all with the greatest humility knowing that it is only God that made it so, and that enabled me to survive it. The result of all that is this: I do not suffer fools gladly and I say things as they are.

“You dare to lecture me about northerners and I wonder how many you actually know? I wonder how many you have ever fought for or defended in the past?

“Our mutual friend, Nasir El Rufai, often warned me about you but I never listened to him. Now you have proved him right and all because you want to please your foreign and newfound northern friends.

“Not even 100 million Reno Omokiris can stop us from doing that, and neither can they make us love those that commit these heinous crimes.

“Maybe you should come home and see what is really going on here rather than writing those great anti-government articles from the relative safety of California.

“If you can muster the courage to do that, you will discover that political correctness is a very expensive luxury which we simply cannot afford.

“Some of us are right here and we have refused to run away from the evil that has gripped the land even when we had every opportunity to do so.

“Please endeavour to do the same then perhaps we may take you more seriously. Hundreds of your fellow Niger Deltans and southerners are languishing in jails all over the country today simply because they supported a southern Christian called President Jonathan during the election, yet you have not even cared to visit any of them.

“You were in the last government with them and many others but you couldn’t even stand in solidarity with them when they needed you the most. And if you did you insisted on doing so from a safe distance. It is a shame.

“The truth is that you are the naive one. You alone and not them. If you really believe the garbage that you wrote here, then you are not just naive but dangerously naive and far dumber than I first thought.

“If only you knew what we as a people in Nigeria and Africa suffered in the hands of the western imperialists over the last 100 years, you would appreciate this intervention instead of attempting to treat it with contempt just to impress your friends at Facebook and in California.

“I urge you to continue to attempt to appease those that see you and those that think like you as nothing more than glorified monkeys and see how far it gets you.”

Omokri just had to have the last word. He said:

“Since it has reached the stage where you are irritated with me, I think it is best to leave well enough alone. Let us agree to disagree without being irritated by each other.

“I have said all I need to say on the matter of Mark Zuckerberg’s description of the Hausa language as being unique, and I have heard all you have to say. Thank God we are both professing Christ followers and are thus familiar with the advice of Saint Paul in 2 Timothy 2:24 “the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient.”

“By the way, I was in Nigeria two weeks ago. I preached at Holyhill Church, Abuja. The pastor, Sunday Ogidigbo, publicized my visit. If I was a coward as you claim and was speaking from the safety of California, why would I visit Nigeria after my strong and very public criticism of the current administration?”

Jame Rodriguez might end up in Chelsea football club as agent holds last minute transfer talk with Real Madrid

JAMES RODRIGUEZ’s agent Jorge Mendes reportedly held talks with Real Madrid over a move for the forward late last night.                                                                                                                    

The Colombia international was linked with a move away from the Bernabeu earlier this summer after struggling to hold down a place in Zinedine Zidane’s starting XI. 

However, the 25-year-old insisted he wanted to stay at Madrid and fight for his place this term.

He said in July: "I'm going to stay with Real Madrid, I'm going to triumph here.”

But he was left out of the side for Real’s first two La Liga games of the season. 

Reports yesterday claimed Madrid had not ruled out selling the Colombian to Chelsea. 

And now Spanish outlet El Confidencial claim Rodriguez’s agent Jorge Mendes held discussions with Real about a move to west London for the forward last night. 

The report claims that the Blues offered Cesc Fabregas as part of a deal, but Madrid were not interested in the former Barcelona man.

The La Liga club’s president Florentino Perez wants £60million for Rodriguez, who is said to be keen on a move to the Premier League. 

Antonio Conte is looking to add to his squad today after only bringing Michy Batshuayi, N'Golo Kante and goalkeeper Eduardo to Chelsea this summer.jj