Northern-Nigeria Perspective

 THE REPEAT OF 1966, DRUMS OF WAR. PART TWO. THE JOURNEY FROM LAGOS TO GAMBE VILLAGE, DECEMBER 1966. My narrative, the 'The repeat of 1966, drums of war' in my earlier post was the beginning of the scenario that led to the fracticidal, brutal and deadly Nigerian civil war, as a consequence of the crisis which ensued  after the gruesome coup de tat of the  15th January 1966, where some majority Igbo military officers spear headed the controversial coup that eliminated majority political and senior military officers from the Northern and Western Regions of Nigeria without a loss of life of any from the Igbo Eastern Nigeria. Lagos was as ever a bustling city and it remained so in spite of the monumental episode, the military coup that took place less than two months earlier, when I arrived Lagos to resume studies at Federal Science School, FSS Lagos. It appeared people in Lagos were oblivious of the happenings in the country, even though the main theater of action of the cou...

The fears expressed on the probable return to the 1966 scenario of doom and uncertainties hanging in the atmosphere, the absence of trust and confidence in the next person with you or near you if he happened not to be from your region or your tribe or religious persuasion. In 1966 the atmosphere was charged and people were looking over their shoulders in order not to miss any happenings. First, I was in Gambe Village on the 15th of January when the sudden and unexpected news of the killing of the Sardauna Sokoto, the Premier of the Northern Region was announced over the Radio Kaduna. The news came with mixed reactions from the population who were just coming out of the just concluded general elections 1964, in the country. Many people who belong to the ruling NPC of Sardauna/Tafawa Balewa party were aggrieved on the killing of the Premier of the Northern Region and his colleague, the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and military officers of mostly northern extraction while me...

His Excellency the Executive Governor of Adamawa State, Rt Honourable Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.  Members of National Assemblies here present Members of State House of Assembly. Members of State Executive Council. Chairmen of Local Government Councils. All Royal Highnesses here present All Spiritual leaders here present. Our eminent and esteemed Mbula sons and daughters. Sir, DELEGATION TO THE INTERNMENT AND CONDOLENCES OF THE LATE MURUMBULA, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS CHIEF JOEL JORAM FWA. Saturday, 22nd May, 2021. On behalf of the Tiddo Yo Daddo Alumni Association family, the Adhoc LOC sends a delegation of its members led by the Tiddo Yo Daddo National Secretary General, Mr Harold Mirchalum, the midwife of the LOC, who has been collaborating all along with the Adhoc LOC for the Centenary Celebrations of the great school, GMMC Yola. It is with a deep sense of loss and grief that we write to commiserate with the entire Mbula Chiefdom on the demise of Chief Joel Joram-Fwa, who graduated from t...

  Tiddo Yo DADDO National Alumni Association, General Murtala Muhammad College Yola. PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE CENTENARY CELEBRATION OF GMMC YOLA BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ADHOC COMMITTEE.  Preamble. The Adhoc Committee of the Tiddo Yo Daddo, TYD,  National Alumni Association of the great school, General Murtala Muhammad College Yola, was inaugurated  by the Congress on the 16th of November 2019, barely a year ago. The National Congress of the Alumni Association, the general body made up of all the old students from the 1920 to the most recent, 2019 sets, who are alive, were summoned to a meeting at the College by the Principal then, Adamu Bello, who earlier along with other concerned alumni members realized that the college would be 100 years old, just the next year 2020. While in other climes such the case of FGC Sokoto celebrating 50th anniversary Golden Jubilee. Preparations for it started in 2005, clear ten years tithe Golden jubilee. But six months to 100 years cele...

The elements of media accentuated by social media space and main stream media, the television, radio and print media outfits are being employed by interest groups (enemies of Nigeria) in collaboration with entities outside the country, in a Coordinating manner to bring down Nigerian government by making the country ungovernable. So the faceless enemies within in active encouragement and collaboration with the: 1. Media  2. Human Rights Groups. 3. Non Governmental Organizations, NGOs. 4. International Criminals Court, ICC. 5. Boko Haram, BH. 6. Armnesty International, AI. 7. Super Tucano Deliberate Delay of Delivery of order to Nigeria military thereby buying time for Boko Haram insurgency. 8. Black Lives Matters decided to pokenose into Nigeria's affairs in order to beef up on the squeeze on Nigeria following it recent successful global outing. 9. CNN billed airing of program focussing on Human Right Abuses in Nigeria, a synchronized timing for the squeeze on Nigeria. 10. D. J. Swi...

TIDDO YO DADDO NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF GMMC YOLA. ATTENTION: 11 TRUTH, THE HOME TRUTH The year 2020 has proved to be unique in many ways aside the all pervading corona virus, Covid-19 pandemic, which spear head the global fear and changes in human life styles, economic and environment. In addition to the Covid-19 pandemic, Nigeria was hit by the Endsars epidemic which rattled the country and metamorphosed into a monster prepared to consume the nation. For those of us who were in our youth, aged 20 years, when Ojukwu declared independent state of Biafra and Gowon countered by declaring a rebellion against the Nigerian State, on the 7th of July 1967, first by Police action which snowballed into full, bloody civil war that led to the death of over one million Nigerians on both sides of the divide, ending in 1970 with a declaration by Gowon, of a “No victor and no vanquis". It was a glimpse, a memory, a reminder of the horrors of the fratricidal civil strife that threate...

 ATTENTION NO. 4. All MEMBERS. NATIONAL TIDDO YO DADDO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF GENERAL MURTALA MUHAMMAD COLLEGE, GMMC, YOLA. THE FORMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL, PROVINCIAL SECONDARY SCHOOL AND GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOL YOLA. NATIONWIDE STATE CONTACT/COORDINATORS. The Adhoc Committee-LOC, in collaboration, cooperation and on behalf of the National Executive Committee, Exco and the Board of Trustees, BoT of the TYD Alumni Association is calling on all affiliate and non affiliate versions of the Old Students Associations of the great school, GMMC Yola, established first as Elementary school, Middle School, Provincial Secondary School and Government Secondary School Yola in 1920 to drop guards and join the National body to celebrate the one hundred years of existence of the great school this Centinary year 2020. In order to identify and synergize with the National Association, various state chapters, Year Sets, dormitory groups or even Decade Sets in the 36 states, the Federal...