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Borno South First: A Welcome Message to a Brother Who Has Chosen Unity Over Division. - Sen. Ali Ndume

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Borno South First: A Welcome Message to a Brother Who Has Chosen Unity Over Division.  There is extraordinary strength in admitting when one is wrong, greater wisdom in listening to counsel, and uncommon courage in choosing reconciliation over personal differences. As the saying goes, “It takes a strong heart to forgive, an even stronger heart to ask for forgiveness, and a great mind to put progress above personal interest.” Dear Uncle Ishaya Malgwi,  Today, you have demonstrated that leadership is not measured by how loudly one criticises, but by the courage to reflect, reconsider, and embrace a common cause when the greater interest demands it. Your willingness to acknowledge your earlier position, listen to the wisdom of our elders, and redirect your energy towards the collective aspirations of Borno South deserves recognition. Indeed, elders often see beyond the immediate horizon, and those who listen to them benefit from the wisdom of experience. More importan...

THE 2ND DECEITFUL ACT OF TINUBU ON THE NORTH: GEN. T. Y. DANJUMA STAKED HIS LIFE IN 1966, TOO GREAT TO FORESAKE AREWA UNITY IN 2026 - By Ishaya Malgwi

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THE 2ND DECEITFUL ACT OF TINUBU ON THE NORTH: GEN. T. Y. DANJUMA STAKED HIS LIFE IN 1966, TOO GREAT TO FORESAKE AREWA UNITY IN 2026 By: Ishaya Malgwi Hanunka ka ba zai rube ba, ka yanke ka jafar Let me begin with a confession. I am about to commit an act of sacrilege against the cult of political correctness that has paralysed Northern thinking. And before the usual chorus of "unity" merchants descends on me with their tired platitudes, permit me to take you back to 1987, to a small room in Lagos where a gate man asked me a question that has haunted me for four decades. "You come see your brother?" That was the question. Simple. Innocent. Yet it contained the entire architecture of our national deceit. The gate man was not being malicious. He was being honest, brutally, refreshingly honest. In his mental map of Nigeria, a Northerner could only be in Lagos for one reason: to visit *his brother*, meaning another Northerner. He could not conceive that I had...