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OPINION: If Plateau’s Illegal Arms Factories Belonged to Fulani Militias, the World Would Be Burning

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OPINION: If Plateau’s Illegal Arms Factories Belonged to Fulani Militias, the World Would Be Burning By: Zagazola Makama  The discovery of another illegal arms factory in Plateau State should have shaken the conscience of the nation. But it did not. Not because the development was insignificant, but because it did not fit the preferred narrative carefully marketed for years by crisis merchants, foreign lobbyists, and politically interested actors feeding off the Plateau conflict. Imagine for a moment if troops had uncovered three illegal arms factories operated by Fulani militias in their harmlet in Plateau within three weeks. Imagine if security forces had recovered fabricated AK-47 rifles, welding machines, recoiling springs, ammunition shells and weapon components from settlements associated with Fulani groups. By now, international media would be flooded with headlines screaming “genocide.” Foreign NGOs would issue emergency alerts. U.S. lawmakers would hold hearing...
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BE PROBABLY INFORMED ON THE NDC MATTER

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                    Let me educate ignorant Nigerians who have been castigating me on the NDC matter. Please read this with an opened mind.  No political association can be registered as a political party without filling INEC’s Form EC15A, which is INEC’s Party Registration Form. This form is online and an association pays a mandatory N2m Administrative Fee to be issued with INEC’s Access Code with which the association will open the portal and make its application. In the application it will upload the party name, acronym, logo, constitution, manifesto, names, addresses, ID cards, passport photographs, Indigene letters, etc. of its national executive members, address of national office headquarters, INEC’s payment receipt, bank account details, a sworn affidavit of truth, etc.  It is these documents that INEC will examine to see whether they comply with the requirements of the constitution, Electoral Act and its Gu...
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ALHAJI BABAKANO JADA – A PATRIARCH OF SERVICE AND HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT

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As forwarded   Alhaji Babakano Jada stands as a leader par excellence and an elder statesman whose life is a testament to humility, generosity, and unwavering commitment to community. He is a father, a grandfather, a philanthropist, a community leader, and an industrialist roles he carries not for personal gain, but for the upliftment of those around him. Beyond his titles, Alhaji Babakano Jada is a bridge-builder who mends divides and a peacemaker whose counsel has calmed tensions and restored unity. His philosophy of leadership is rooted in service: always there to serve and not to be served, to give and not to take.  What sets him apart most is his enduring investment in people. For decades, Alhaji Babakano Jada has quietly sponsored numerous sons and daughters of Adamawa and beyond through their education and professional journeys. Today, many of his beneficiaries have risen to prominence as lawyers, administrators, politicians, doctors, engineers, educators, and leaders i...
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Jagorancin Mace a Tarihin Addinin Musulunci Ta Umar Ardo, Ph.D

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°Phd. Umar Ardo delivering a speech during a function. Jagorancin Mace a Tarihin Addinin Musulunci                        Ta Umar Ardo, Ph.D Ni ba malamin fikihu ko malam na ilimin addinin Musulunci ba ne, amma ni malamin tarihin duniya ne. Saboda haka, ba zan yi magana da cikakken ilimin addini kan matsayin addinin Musulunci game da jagorancin mata ba - wannan sai a bar wa malamai! Amma a matsayina na Musulmi, na san kadan daga abin da Musulunci ya ce game da mace da mulki a kan al’umma. Banda abin da *Al-Qur’ani Mai Girma* da *Hadisan Annabi (SAW)* suka fada, akwai kuma abubuwan da suka faru a tarihin Musulunci da suka kara fayyace matsayin Musulunci kan jagorancin mata. Saboda haka, a matsayin mai binciken tarihi - musamman tarihin Musulunci - zan yi bayani bisa abin da tarihi ya nuna game da wannan batu. 1. Ba da shawara da wakilanci daban, jagoranci kuma daban. A tarihin Musulunci, mace tana iya bada shawara ko...
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THE NORTH HOLDS NIGERIA’S FATE IN ITS HANDS — AND THE QURAN TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHAT TO DO WITH

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THE NORTH HOLDS NIGERIA’S FATE IN ITS HANDS — AND THE QURAN TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHAT TO DO WITH  A Plea to the Conscience of Muslim Northern Nigeria By Kio Amachree, President, Worldview International I. THE WEIGHT OF THE NORTH There is a Hausa proverb that every elder in Kano, Sokoto, Kaduna, and Maiduguri knows by heart: “Rua ba su yami banza.” Water does not go bitter without a cause. Nigeria’s bitterness today did not happen by accident. It has a cause. It has a name. And in 2027, it falls to the North — the seat of the Caliphate, the home of Sharia, the fortress of Islam in West Africa — to name that cause openly and act upon it. Without the North, Bola Ahmed Tinubu cannot be re-elected. He knows it. His handlers know it. And now, the North must decide: will it trade its conscience for a second term of a man the Holy Quran itself condemns? I am a Christian. I am a man of Ijaw and Kalabari royal lineage. I am not a northerner. But I am a Nigerian who loves this countr...
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The Tree, The Root and The Rot: A Philosophical Indictment of Constitutional Subversion in Nigeria’s Political Culture - An Essay on the Metaphysics of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) By Umar Ardo, Ph.D

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Phd. Umar Ardo  The Axiom Restated Jesus of Nazareth, in the Sermon on the Mount, delivers one of history's most devastating political theorems: "Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Therefore by their fruits thou shall know them." (Matthew 7:17–20, NKJV)  2. This is not mere moralistic poetry. It is a claim about ontological continuity - the insistence that essence precedes and determines expression, that being conditions doing, that the architecture of a thing's origin constitutes the DNA of its destiny. The tree does not choose its fruit arbitrarily; the fruit is the visible syntax of the tree's invisible grammar. To examine the fruit is to perform an autopsy on the root.   3. What, then, are we to make of politicians of national stature, such as Gov. Peter Obi, Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso, Gov. Kabiru Gaya, Sen. A'ishatu Ahmed Binani and a host of othe...
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ATIKU FOR ONE NIGERIA - Prof. Muhammad A. Bamanga

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OPINION  WHY ATIKU ABUBAKAR SHOULD STEP FORWARD AND SALVAGE NIGERIA           (ATIKU FOR ONE NIGERIA) At each stage of its development Nigeria had faced a peculiar challenge. At this stage the key problem is division, along ethnic, religion and regional lines, that is threatening the corporate existence of the country. The present leadership clearly, is either favouring one ethnic group against the others or favouring one religion against the others or favouring one region against the other regions. This has never happened in the history of Nigeria. When Notherners were in-charge, to a large extent there was inclusivity. All ethnicity, religion and regions were duly represented and involved in the administration of Nigeria, unlike today. The question now is, who will savage the situation or will salvage Nigeria at this critical moment of nationhood? Nigeria is in dire need of a Situational Leader. The man standing and remaining, who fought for democrac...
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The Balfour Pivot: How 1917 Reconfigured Jewish Relations with Christendom and Islam - Umar Ardo, PhD

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     • cover image     The Balfour Pivot: How 1917 Reconfigured Jewish Relations with Christendom and Islam - Umar Ardo, PhD Further to the discussion of my previous article, let me start this essay by stating that the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on the resettlement of Jews in Palestine as their primary Homeland did not create the Judeo-Christian interfaith dynamics out of nothing; rather, it accelerated and reconfigured trajectories that started earlier in ways that made new alliances and antagonisms politically useful. Specifically, in the 17th century, more concrete shift appeared in England under Oliver Cromwell. Aiming to rubbish the policies of the monarchy that he overthrew, Cromwell officially allowed Jews to return to England after centuries of expulsion. Likewise, the Jacobins who overthrew the monarchy in the French Revolution made an unprecedented move by granting Jews full citizenship of France. Also, after coming to p...
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