luminus im on yourside concerning Angelas «any govt in power/anywhere belle face» tendencies, please lets address her!

please see this link for more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_Aguiyi-Ironsi

We have had alot of such infiltration from liberia and serria leon into nigeria since slaves were freed. among them the Ben Bruce family, Patrick Dele Cole etc these people are american slaves who are being used by the CIA to keep us under slavery by fighting for so called «democracy» this was why when Rev Jesse Jackson landed nigeria Abacha told him he was considered an enemy of the state and had 24 hrs to leave nigeria or be arrested and arraigned as a spy and dealt with!

vis a vis NO JUDICIARY is allowed to issue any arrest/search WARRANT. the only person legally WHO CAN issue and effect any arrest is a military non-commissioned officer who has attained the rank of WARRANT OFFICER. This entitlement to arrest by these officers is by virtue of their over 20-30 years of distinguished and meritorious national military service.

So by police searching people at a check point it is illegal because they have no warrant!

similarly at the SENATE the MASTER AT ARMS «ORDERS» the senate to rise and to sit and MAINTAINS «ORDER» even the senators take their turns (order) to argue their case.

Also that is quite interesting is that the rank insignia of a Major General and above has the seal of the federation which is at the senate this seal is the symbol of law while the sword is the order. And so only a general can be a senator and can make any law he likes and effect the order by using the warrant officer! QED

please also note that even a PHD has to «DEFEND» their THESIS

Infact even moses was a camp commander and had a vision but once again OBJ DOES NOT and so seems to be taking NIGERIA through an UNENDING WILDERNESS!

God is a God of dictation/order and change. Because he not only gavee us the ten commandments (as dipo highlighted in the opening blog) but he also changed from the old testament system to the new testament system. This change was not welcomed by the suducees and pharicees or the roman leadership at the time because it might have been seen to be a rallying point for the isrealites opposition to the roman occupation at the time!

The Hausa-Fulani already had artillery/gunpower before the coming of the british due to their contact with arab traders and they were the last and hardest to conquer, infact the Germans and french had unsucessfully tried. The british learned from the mistakes of both of them and improved up on thier techniques.

The british decided to use them (hausa) in the new police/military because they were the hardest to conquer. After independence they decided to reclaim what was their birth right and what their fathers had served loyally for. since they were told that they were in the lower cadre (non commissioned) and the british imposed igbo majority as commissioned (higher cadre) after independence.

This would also mean that they could easily use this military to continue to fight a war against the other tribes before they were interrupted by the british.the Youruba empire was close to the lower niger river area near kainji, old oyo was where illorin is today and was pushed down due to this Hausa invasion.

similarly the british had failed to conquer south africa and the germans learned form their mistakes. In fact according to the accounts of the british soldiers at the time of the south africa they said » we noticed that the Zulu had specialised groups with calvalry (horse), spears, bow and arrow in seperate groups» this the british did not have at the time and this is what today we call divisions, brigades, companies etc The british system at the time was that of barbarian i.e multitude of everybody rushing to fight at one time with no seperate units.

I enjoyed reading your comment.

Nice one.

the fight against obj and abacha is/was an age old fight between these 2 elites. Abacha, Gowon etc are the children of old soldiers who were part of the west african frontier force/Glovers hausas.
They feel that is is thier birth right to control the military of the country because thier fathers served loyally. The political elite tried to infiltrate their children/people into the military because there was a series of coups threatening africa at the time this would lead to politicians like Fani Kayode Snr putting people like Obj in the Army and Ojukwus father putting him in the army. In essence the politicians did not want to mind their own side of the house because they were scared of being overthrown. This is why Ojukwu was dismissed from the army by Gowon and Obj was locked up by Abacha!

At that time there was no descendant of a glover hausa in involved in politics.

The key is connecting with your audience. Know what the people want and let them have it full on. Bill Gates' religious affiliations are none of my business, what's important is for me to reflect Christ. That one person isn't is not excuse for me not to.

@J: I'm really sorry, I couldn't read the bulk of your comments, I don't have the attention span or the time to devote to that, I guess if you summarise a bit more, you'll get taken seriously, no offense intended.

@Angela: I'm feeling you 100%. Your life is what you make of it and whining and crying never fixed anything. We need to get up, dust ourselves off physically and mentally and forge ahead.

@Dipo: Babaaa. I'm feeling you joo. You've got this on lock-down. Valid points all the way. Unlike Jane who thinks you should stay off topics like this, I think you should keep it up, for one, Controversy sells, and it's part of connecting with your readers. 'Cos if we weren't feeling this ish, this comment wouldn't be number 23.

Well, my little contribution would be first see ourselves as One Nation....One Nigeria with a beautiful mix of tribes.
I believe Nigerian are a force to reckon with...If we actually walk together.
Since I dont live in the country at the moment all I would really like to see is an attitude adjustment.
I seriously pray for the GOOD, honest, God ordained Leadership. One that will unity the nation, with a global vision, Because it will first have to start from the head (that is a principle that can not be broken)
We should embarrass foreign input, but not let it rule or divide us any further.
People like yourself, Dipo, Deolu Akinyemi and may other that have a heart to help change the mindset of the next generation of Nigerians from waiting for something to happen instead of actually making something happen.

In one word my contribution would be Right mind - Right attitude a better Nigeria.

Please angela what are some of the ways that you believe that we can forge ahead in Nigeria and mend old wounds?

We may in the not too far future end up having to split up back to how we were in nigeria before the british/oyibo come along. But this would not be without a major conflict ie a 2nd civil war it is already in the making with all these independent militias, and unless we absorb them into the goverment militiawe should gradually prepare for niaja to split up into 3 major areas, but this would still see the imposition of certain leaders such as Ike nwachuku as president of briafra (we all know he is not 100% igbo, but half fulani and have igbo) so that will cause a sub break up of Ibgo land and when an area is threated with a sub break up there are some oppourtunities such as selling of arms or you can attack and claim their land becuase the individual smaller entities are much weaker than the original bigger entity. basically oyibo are the ones that brought up problems where as we already had our own systems set up with little or no problems

back in the days if i planted cocoa in an area and it did not grow, it was deemed that was not yoruba-land, or sugarcane did not grow then that is not hausaland etc or if horse could not survive due to humid temperature/ tse tse fly then it was not hausa land, Yam in benue/tiv tribe The benin people in Edo felt their dieties/gods blessed them with certain natural resources such as Plantain and palm oil etc this is the same belief with most tribes
A river or lake would be used to seperate tribes, these were how the borders were set they were natural borders not physically demarcated per say such as concrete block with «welcome to ogun state/goodbye from lagos state»

Please what is your point??