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Nigerians: Get a 2nd Salary with Only ₦99,000 Investment in Amazon Daily Finance | Sponsored Jubna Saturday, August 27, 2022 Menu Farooq Kperogi: 20 Hausa words in everyday Nigerian English See 20 Nigerian English—and Nigerian Pidgin English— expressions that owe debts to the Hausa language. FAROOQ KPEROGI • AUGUST 27, 2022 Since 2015, every August 26 has been observed as “Hausa Day” (or “Ranar Hausa” in the Hausa language) by Hausa-speaking people all over the world. In honour of this day, I highlight 20 Nigerian English—and Nigerian Pidgin English— expressions that owe debts to the Hausa language. Nigerians: Get a 2nd Salary with Only ₦99,000 Investment in Amazon Daily Finance | Sponsored Nigerian Millionaire Reveals: How to Get Rich with Bitcoin, Without Buying Bitcoin Daily Finance | Sponsored As with every language that leaves its primordial shores, the Hausa words that make it to Nigerian English are often contorted from their original forms and meanings. 1. “Jaara.” Most speakers of Nigerian English recognize this word as an additional, often small, quantity that a merchant gives to a customer who purchases goods in the market as a show of appreciation for the customer’s business. It is derived from the Hausa “gyara.” The word’s corruption to “jaara” in Nigerian (Pidgin) English) is a consequence of the absence of the Hausa phoneme “gy” in most Nigerian languages. Interestingly, in the U.S. state of Louisiana, when I lived for almost two years before moving to Georgia, people use the term “lagniappe” (pronounced Lan-Yap) to signify what Hausa people call “gyara” and that Nigerian English speakers call “jaara.” No other part of the United States has a culture of merchants giving a small gift to their customers after a transaction. I once speculated that the Louisiana “lagniappe” culture may be traceable to enslaved Hausa people in the state hundreds of years ago. 2. “Babban riga.” The resplendent, broad-sleeved, flowing gown that has now become the attire of choice of Nigerian politicians of all ethnicities is often called “babban riga” in Nigerian English. It’s a slight distortion of “babbar riga,” its Hausa name. 3. “Megad.” This Nigerian English word for what native English speakers call a door guard, a gatekeeper, a uniformed doorman, or a hall porter came to us from a distortion of the Hausa “maigadi,” itself a blend of the Hausa “mai” and the English “guard.” The fact that most doorkeepers in Nigerian urban centers used to be—probably still are—Hausa or Hausa-speaking northerners helped to admit “megad” into the pantheon of unique Nigerian English expressions. 4. “Buka.” This word now means a cheap, casual, ramshackle eatery that sells already prepared food. It came from the Hausa word “bukka,” which means a temporary, tumble-down hut or tent. Since most roadside or dirt-cheap eateries in Nigeria used tents (many don’t these days), Nigerians neologized the word “bukateria” from “bukka” on the model of cafeteria, itself an American English word borrowed from Spanish. 5. “Burantashi.” Most Nigerians know this word to be the Hausa word for an aphrodisiac, that is, the bitter herbal concoction that reputedly stimulates sexual desire in men. “Bura” is the Hausa word for the male reproductive organ and “tashi” is the Hausa word for rising, waking up, etc. Curiously, however, the word “buratashi” (which is probably how it would have been written in Hausa if it were a thing) is more used outside Hausa land than in Hausa land. In everyday conversational Hausa, at least among Hausa Muslims, “bura” is rarely used except in vulgar insults such as “bura uban ka/ki” (which is now rendered as “borobanka” in some varieties of Nigerian Pidgin English). I’m genuinely curious how “burantashi” came to be if it’s almost absent in the demotic repertoire of native Hausa speakers. Hausa people call aphrodisiacs “maganin karfin maza” or “gagi.” 6. “Fadama.” This Hausa word for a fertile wetland is now a widely used terminology in agriculture in Nigeria and beyond. 7. “Do guy.” To “do guy” in Nigerian English is to preen, to show off with elaborate sartorial care. That expression owes provenance to the Hausa “gayu,” where it means the same thing. A dandy is called “dan gaye” or “dan danyu” in Hausa. But it seems like there is a circular sociolinguistic loop in the emergence of this expression from Hausa to Nigerian English. Since “gayu” itself doesn’t seem to be native to Hausa, it’s reasonable to assume that it’s a loan to the language from the English “guy.” Guy means an adult male in English, and men who wore shirts and trousers (as opposed to the more common Hausa attires of kaftans and babbar riga) were referred to as “guys.” So, “guy” might have changed meaning from just being men attired in Western clothes to dandies, from where it made its way to Nigerian Pidgin English and later to Nigerian English to simply mean preening. 8. “Long leg,” the Nigerian English idiomatic expression for connections (which even Wole Soyinka used in one of this iconic plays) is said to be the direct translation of the Hausa dogon-kafa. Dogon-kafa can mean long-established, and it can colloquially mean (unfair) advantages that come with knowing people in high places. 9. “Kaya mata” or “kayamata” (which native Hausa speakers would write as “kayan mata”) has come to mean sexual stimulant for women and is now widely known by that name in southern Nigeria. 10. “Mudu,” the unit of measurement that most Nigerians use in the market, is a Hausa word. 11. To “see gobe” in southern Nigeria is to be in trouble, sometimes good trouble. It’s the title of Davido’s 2013 hit song. It may have been derived from the Hausa “sai gobe,” which literally translates as “until tomorrow.” I am also curious to know how the semantic transition occurred from “until tomorrow” to “being in trouble.” 12. “Suya” literally means frying in Hausa, but it has become the name for barbecued meat in Nigeria, which Hausa people call “tsire.” Since most non-Hausa Nigerians can’t faithfully pronounce the phoneme “ts” in Hausa, it’s entirely possible that Hausa tsire sellers encouraged the popularization of suya, an easier word to pronounce among non-Hausa-speaking people. 13. “Dogon yaro” (which literally means tall child) is the Hausa word for neem tree, but it is almost universally known by that name in Nigeria. 14. “Wahala.” Although “wahala” is an Arabic word, it came to Nigerian (Pidgin) English most likely through Hausa. It’s derived from the Arabic “wahla,” which means fright or terror, and is now firmly established in most Nigerian languages—and in the West African Pidgin English spoken in Nigeria, Ghana, and Cameroon 15. “Waaka.” In Nigerian Pidgin English, “waaka” is a popular insult often uttered in moments of extreme exasperation with all five fingers stretched out. It’s a corruption of the Hausa “uwar ka” (male) “uwar ki” (female). Uwa means “mother” in Hausa, so “uwar ka” is “your mother!” 16. “Mugu.” Nigerian 419 email scammers popularized this expression in Nigeria and beyond. It is understood to mean a chump, that is, a fool who can easily be tricked to part with his or her prized possessions under false pretenses. But this meaning of the word departs from its original Hausa meaning of “sadist.” Now, mugu has other variations such as “maga.” 17. “Haba!” This exclamation of astonishment or disappointment that has crept into Standard Nigerian English is native to the Hausa language. But a British linguist by the name of Roger Blench observed that “Habahaba! was a common expression of joking amazement in the US in the 1940s,” and wonders if there is any relationship between the Nigerian “haba!” and the obsolete American English “habahaba!” in light of the phono-semantic similarities between both expressions. I doubt that there is. 18. “Shikenan” (often rendered as “shikena” in southern Nigeria), the Hausa term for “that is it,” is now almost universally used in Nigerian (Pidgin) English. 19. “Shege.” This means bastard in Hausa, although it can also be used as an intensifier. It is now widely understood and used in the same context in Nigerian Pidgin English. 20. “Zobo” (short for zoborodo), a kind of drink originally limited to Hausa land is now probably the most pan-Nigerian locally produced drink. It is sold in African shops in Europe and North America. Bonus: Turenchi, usually dogo turenchi, (which would be turanci, dogon turanci in Hausa), is now widely used in Nigerian Pidgin English and in informal standard Nigerian English to mean long, boring, ineffective harangue in English by politicians and academics. Nigerians: Get a 2nd Salary with Only ₦99,000 Investment in Amazon Daily Finance | Sponsored Nigerian Millionaire Reveals: How to Get Rich with Bitcoin, Without Buying Bitcoin Daily Finance | Sponsored I am 53 years old, and this remedy made me a ‘girl’ Inno gialuron | Sponsored Verified Ghana Urologist Shares Permanent Solution To Enlarged Prostate In Men Zubic Nutrition | Sponsored Diabetes: Normalize High Blood Sugar With Powerful Diabetes Solution Makajeet | Sponsored 1 Cup Of This Daily Burns 12 Lb Of Fat In A Week! Try Tonight Express Fat Burner | Sponsored PROMOTED CONTENT These 2 Vegetables Will Kill Your Belly And Arm Fat Overnight! 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‘You are wrong’: Fani-Kayode knocks Babachir Lawal, defends Tinubu P.M. News Nigeria Aug 26, 2022 6:27 AM Femi Fani-Kayode has knocked out the opinion of Babachir Lawal, former Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, over the same-faith presidential ticket of the APC involving Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima. The former SFG had claimed that the Muslim-Muslim ticket is designed to kill and eliminate Christians from the political system. “For us Christians in the North, the Muslim-Muslim ticket is existential. It is designed to oppress, kill and eliminate us from the political and economic system.” However, Fani-Kayode in his response to Babachir Lawal said Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, his running mate, may be Muslims but their faith does not define them. According to Fani-Kayode, the statements made by Babachir were simply not true. Please read the full statement by Fani-Kayode below: DO TINUBU AND SHETTIMA PRESENT AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO CHRISTIANS? I am very fond of Dr. Babachir Lawal and I have great respect and affection for him but I beg to differ with him on this issue. What he has said is simply not true and those that espouse and share the views that he has expressed here are playing a dangerous and divisive game. Unlike him I do not see a Muslim/Muslim ticket but rather a Tinubu/Shettima ticket. They are both human beings and Nigerians before being Muslims. We should at least accord them that consideration and respect. I believe that one of the most mischievous, cruel, illogical, and uncharitable things we can do is to measure a man’s worth by his religious faith alone and refuse to see anything in him other than that. Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, his running mate, maybe Muslims but their faith does not define them. What defines them is their character, vision, and ability to perform well in office and their commitment to a united, peaceful, fair, just, equitable and prosperous Nigeria. Another thing that defines them, though to a lesser extent, is their ethnic nationality and where they come from in the country. In this case, one is a Yoruba (from the South Western zone) whilst the other is a Kanuri (from the North Eastern zone), both proud and noble ethnic groups with a rich, civilized and ancient cultural and historical heritage which ģoes back thousands of years and neither of which was EVER defeated, conquered, subjugated or occupied by any other African ethnic nationality or power in their entire history. These are the things that are relevant and that define each of these two men and not their faith. In any case, how can conceding the position of the Vice President which, with all due respect, has limited powers to a Muslim constitute a threat to our great and mighty Christian faith and how can it overwhelm the wishes and aspirations of 110 million Christians? This seems to me to be far-fetched and absurd. It is true that for many years the practice has been to balance the ticket and pair Christians and Muslims when it comes to leadership positions and governance in this country in order to make adherents of both faiths feel secure. Yet other than the comforting optics one wonders just how much security such an arrangement really afforded adherents of both faiths. Did it stop Boko Haram and ISWAP from killing both Christians and Muslims respectively? Did it stop Christian militias in the North from killing Muslims over the years? Did it stop Christian separatists, in the guise of unknown gunmen, targetting and murdering both Christians and Muslims in the East? Did it save the life of the young lady Deborah in Sokoto when she was hacked to pieces and burnt alive or that of the young man Gideon Akaluka when he was beheaded in Kano by Muslim mobs respectively? We have tried this balancing formula for many years and it really does not seem to have provided the intended results or worked too well. Consider the plight of Northern Christians over the last 22 years even though we have had two Christian Presidents over that period of time and a Christian Vice President who happens to be a Pastor over the last 7. Again consider the plight of Muslims in the core North and the Middle Belt over the same period of time even though we have had two Muslim Presidents and two Muslim Vice Presidents. When barbaric acts and unspeakable atrocities are committed against defenceless civilian populations, including women and children and when people are targetted for their faith or ethnicity without consequence, surely it is a failure of leadership and nothing to do with the religious faith of the President or his Vice. Given that perhaps it is time to try something new and provide a more innovative approach. Perhaps it is time for us to start focusing on factors other than faith when it comes to electing our leaders. Besides which, from an intellectual perspective, when it comes to mattwrs of leadership and national issues and practises nothing is cast in iron and nothing is static: we are meant to evolve. Leaders ought to be elected on the basis of their quality and competence coupled with their ability to attract and deliver as many votes as possible and not their faith. Anything less than that is an emotional rather than a rational approach. Today we have a Muslim/Muslim ticket vying for power at the center and tomorrow, by God’s grace, we shall have a Christian/Christian one. That is progress and let me remind the skeptics that this has just been achieved in Osun state, where a Christian/Christian ticket won the Governorship election and it happened in Kaduna state a few years ago when a Muslim/Muslim ticket did same. In either case the Heavens did not fall. Thankfully there are Christians all over this country from both the North and the South who are in the APC and who do not share Lawal’s view. There are also millions of Christians who are not affiliated to any political party all over the country that disagree with him. The truth is that it would serve our interests better as Christians to negotiate for and insist on key positions in the incoming Government of Bola Tinubu for members of our faith in return for our votes rather than threatening fire and thunder, labelling him as an anti-Christ, indulging in mass hysteria, delusion and fear-mongering and acting as if Christianity in Nigeria would be threatened or faces an existential threat under his watch. Is this doable? It most certainly is and those that doubt it should find out what the arrangement is in Lebanon when it comes to power sharing between the the religious faiths and what is known as the Lebanese formula. For the record, no-one can undermine or eliminate Christianity in Nigeria even if they wanted to do so and neither is anyone trying. Our faith teaches us that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church” so why panic? It teaches us that “God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love and sound mind”, so why the fear? It teaches us that “Christ in us our hope in glory”, so why worry? It teaches us that “the battle belongs to the Lord” and that “all things work for good for thos who love Him”, so why the doubt? It teaches us that “the righteous shall live by faith”, so why the lack of faith? We are too big and too strong to harbour such fears and our God is too mighty. Bola Tinubu’s incoming Government will be one of the most liberal, rational, reasonable, compassionate, caring, progressive and Christian-friendly administrations in the history of our country and we have absolutely nothing to fear. I can vouch for that and I am prepared to stick my neck out for it. If it had been otherwise I would have been the one to lead the charge against him and neither would I hold anything back because my faith is everything to me. In addition to this consider the following. For the last 62 years the people of the South West more than any other have stood by those that are known as the Northern minorities which include the Northern Chritians. It seems strange that when it is time for them to reciprocate that support, gesture and affection and stand with a son of the South West for the presidential election some of these people are opposing him on the grounds that he has chosen a Muslim as his running mate. They have shouted about domination at the hands of the Fulani since time immemorial but today they are saying they would rather support yet another Fulani for President than a Yoruba. Does this make sense? Is there not a contradiction there? For the first time in the history of our country the key players and ruling party in the core North, including the Fulani, has not only agreed but insisted on conceding power to the South and it is a few Northern Christians that are now opposing this on religious grounds? Is it because Tinubu is a Muslim? When some advocated for power shift to the South they never said it must shift to a Southern Christian and neither would that have made sense. They said it must shift to the South, whether Christian or Muslim and that is the right and proper thing to do. We must rise above these petty differences and attempt to unite our people rather than divide them. A nation that has 20 Christian Governors and only 16 Muslim ones cannot be Islamised and neither will it allow for the oppression, killing and elimination of Northern Christians from the political and economic system. A country in which a Christian/Christian ticket just won a Gov. election in Osun state which is 50 % Muslim cannot be Islamised and neither will it allow for the oppression, killing and elimination of Northern Christians from the political and economic system. A country in which every single Governor in the South, since the Osun election, is a Christian cannot be Islamised and neither will it allow for the oppression, killing and elimination of Northern Christians from the political and economic system. A country led by a man like BAT who, though a Muslim, has as many Christians as he does Muslims in his family, including his wife who is a Pastor in a Pentecostal Church cannot be Islamised, and neither will it allow for the oppression, killing and elimination of Northern Christians from the political and economic system. And as a matter of fact, there is no historical record of Yoruba Muslims hiding in bushes and forests and killing Northern or Southern Christians, so why the fear and hate? Why the attempt to generate panic and hysteria? Why the suggestion that under BAT Christians are faced with an existential threat? Why the misrepresentation of intention? Why the demonisation? Was it not BAT that gave Lagos state public schools back to the Christian Missions? Was it not him that gave more land to some of the largest Pentecostal mega-Churches to build on than any other Governor in the history of Lagos? Was it not him that ensured that the last two Governors of Lagos state were practising Pentecostal Christians? Was it not him thet ensured that for the last two presidential elections a Pentecostal Christian Pastor from the South West that he nominated was elected as our Vice President? I could go on and on. We must rise above this faith-baiting and fear-mongering and instead seek to build bridges of unity, peace and harmony. It is not about having a Christian or a Muslim leader, it is about having a righteous leader that will protect the interests of every Nigerian regardless of their faith. A Tinubu/Shettima Presidency would do precisely that. Of this I have no doubt. Congratulations To Our Lucky Winner Who Won ₦6,700,000 From A ₦110 Bet, Try Your Luck Now MSport Sign Up Move to Canada as a skilled worker. Apply now! Canadian Visa Expert Find Entry Job In the Tech Industry. Salaries Might surprise you US Jobs | Search Ads Click Here Do this before bed and watch your stomach shrink Safari News by TaboolaSponsored Links

Skip to content Menu HOME LATEST NEWS METRO SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT VIDEOS RELATIONSHIPS POLITICS FORUM POSTED INNEWS Court adjourns Sine Die Oba Awujale’s N200b libel suit against Ayefele’s Fresh FM August 2, 2022 By Adeola Badru Hearing in the N200 billion libel suit filed by the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, against Yinka Aiyefele Limited, owner of internet Fresh FM 105.9 Radio Station before Justice Olusola Adetujoye of an Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, was yesterday adjourned till sine die. In his 11-paragraph statement of claim, Oba Adetona is seeking N200b as compensation for damages for the alleged libel contained in a radio programme titled, “Talk Your Own with Chikito Duru” allegedly written and published by the defendant on its Fresh FM 105.9 Ibadan on December 22, 2019. It was said to be simultaneously transmitted and stored in its news server from December 22, 2019 daily till September 4, 2020 vide internet website with address www.facebook.comfreshfmibadan videos on behalf of the defendant. The monach is also seeking an order of injunction restraining the defendant by itself, servants, agents or otherwise from further publishing or causing to be published the same or similar defamatory words of or concerning the claimant and cost of the suit. Yinka Aiyefele Limited is the sole defendant in the suit marked I/972/2020 filed by the Awujale through his counsel, O. Ayanlaja, SAN of M/S Ayanlaja, Adesanya & Co. Ayanlaja said the words used on the radio programme referred and were understood to refer to the claimant in their natural and ordinary meaning and were calculated to disparage the claimant in his status as a person of global repute and in his office as the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland. Ayanlaja said the claimant had also been injured in his credit, character and reputation and lowered in his estimation in the mind of right thinking members of the society and hurt in his feelings. The claimant insisted that the defendant was aware that the said words were defamatory and are untrue, since it was alleged to have occurred in 1984. He alleged that the defendant was reckless to check whether or not the publication was true, but blinded by the prospect of the material advantage of using the person and office of the claimant to attract more listeners to its programmes. “The claimant’s reputation and integrity have been damaged by the false publication as people who held the claimant in high esteem have been made to doubt his honour and even expressed their doubts to his face by asking why he raised a heinous curse on the Ijebus and the Nigerian nation and which curse has brought destruction and economic calamity to Ijebuland and the Nigerian nation at large.” The monarch averred that sometime between January and May 2020, he received various phone calls from some of his subjects in Nigeria and in the Diaspora that some negative stories were trending on the website of the defendant. On August 10, 2020, the claimant through his counsel, wrote to the defendant for an apology, the retraction of the libelous publication, that same be completely removed from the internet radio server programme of the defendant and payment of damages. He averred that the defendant refused, neglected to respond to the claimant’s letter but rather sent a delegation on August 20, 2020 to the chambers of the solicitor to the claimant with entreaties. He averred that the defendant thereafter on September 4, 2020 removed the internet radio publication from its server after trending for over eight months. The monach contended that contrary to the broadcast on the radio station of the defendant, there was no time that he pronounced a curse on Ijebuland and that the buildings at the company were intact as there was no fire outbreak at the site. He averred that one of his chiefs, Dr. Fassy Yusuf, had sometime in May 2020, first called his attention to the programme about his person and office as the Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland. The defendant’s counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu SAN filed a statement of defence on March, 12, 2021, putting up the defence of qualified privilege stating that it was a life program with the name of the presenter stated as “Talk Your Own With Chikito Duru,” thereby making the station innocent disseminator of the alleged libel. In paragraph 15 of the said defence the defendant apologised to the Claimant stating thereat that: “the defendant having brought down the programme complained against by the Claimant from the Facebook and having apologised profusely in the same mode of broadcast and on record in this Court is no longer in a position to repeat the words complained of and/or similar words in future and hereby further apologise as it has no reason to ridicule the Claimant and/or expose him to public odium or lower Kabiyesi’s reputation by the right thinking members of the society and has no malice, real and/or technical, against the Claimant who is held in high esteem by members of the society including all members of staff and management of the Defendant whose actions throughout was to inform Ijebu sons and daughters interested in the development of their land to approach the Claimant to remove any curse, if any, leading to the departure in droves by companies hitherto operating in their land and the Defendant received favourable response from Ijebu listeners of the programme. “ The matter came up on 14th of July, 2022, with A. Adesanya SAN with A. Adetola and M. A. Atanda for the Claimant. Chief Yomi Alliyu SAN and Dipo Olasope SAN with Thelma Otaigbe-Oluleye and Adeyemi Omoniyi for the Defendant. The defendant filed 4 processes before the Court which are application to join the presenter and the guest as 3rd parties; Notice of Appeal on the previous ruling of the court on preliminary objection that the case does not disclose any cause of action known to law; thirdly, leave to appeal and finally motion for stay of proceedings. The Claimant’s counsel consented to all except the application for stay of proceedings. However, the Court did not allow the three motions consented to by the Claimant to be moved. The matter was adjourned till sine die when the counsels could not agree on a specific date. 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HomeNotes from Atlanta with Farooq Kperogi Tinubu And Obi Will Either Affirm Or Destroy These Two Theories In 2023 NOTES FROM ATLANTA WITH FAROOQ KPEROGI By Farooq Kperogi On Aug 13, 2022 Share TWO certainties have underpinned voting behavior in Nigeria, which APC’s Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Labour Party’s Mr. Peter Obi will either uphold or explode in next year’s presidential election. While one of the certainties is time-honored, the other is more contemporary and enabled by social media. The most time-honored fixity in Nigerian electoral politics since independence is the certitude that the Yoruba electorate will always overwhelmingly vote for a Yoruba candidate in national elective contests in which other candidates are non-Yoruba. Will Tinubu uphold, modify, or disaffirm this age-old pattern? I’ll return to this shortly. The second fixture in Nigeria’s electoral politics since at least 2011 is the almost inexorable nexus between candidates who dominate the social media discursive arena and candidates who win the presidential election. Peter Obi is now undoubtedly the undisputed favorite in Nigeria’s social media circles. Will he replicate previous patterns? Let’s start with Tinubu and the Yoruba voting trajectory. On the surface, it seems outrageously accusatory and unfair to say Yoruba people inescapably vote for their kind in presidential elections. But that is what the historical evidence says. Note, however, I am not by any means saying that every single Yoruba voter has always voted for Yoruba candidates in presidential elections. I am only saying that the majority of Yoruba voters always vote for their kind. Chief Obafemi Awolowo enjoyed the kind of political dominance in Western Nigeria that Sir Ahmadu Bello didn’t have even in Hausaphone Muslim Northern Nigeria (he could never win over Kano, for example) and that Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe didn’t enjoy in Eastern Nigeria. Well, one can attribute Awolowo’s political iconicity in Western Nigeria to his admirable policies and inclusive strategies when he was a premier of the region. But how about Chief MKO Abiola? Abiola spent the better part of his political career undermining Awolowo and swimming against the political mainstream in Yoruba land. His Concord newspaper was virulently and implacably anti-Awolowo. Unlike Tinubu who used to subordinate his Muslim identity to the point of erasure until the last few years, Abiola wore his Islam on his sleeves. He advocated the establishment of sharia in Yoruba land; built hundreds of mosques nationwide; openly supported Islamic causes in and outside Nigeria; was the Baba Adini of Yoruba land [i.e., the ceremonial head of Islam in Yoruba land); and aggressively worked for and defended Nigeria’s membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which caused the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in 1986 to urge Christians to boycott the Concord newspaper. Abiola was also the victim of a vicious whispering campaign in churches that he bought hundreds of thousands of bibles and intentionally sunk them in the sea. It was false but many Christians believed it. So, when he chose a northern Muslim running mate in 1993, like Tinubu has done, the exact same reaction as we’re seeing today from Christians followed. Northern Christians kicked, and Yoruba Christians said they wouldn’t vote for him both because of his past and his choice of a Muslim running mate. But when his opponent turned out to be Alhaji Bashir Tofa, a Kanuri Muslim born and raised in Kano, the Yoruba electorate closed ranks, eschewed religious divisions, accentuated Abiola’s ethnicity, and voted for him overwhelmingly. We saw a repeat of this with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. When his major opponent was Chief Olu Falae, another Yoruba man, he lost not only the Southwest but also his natal Ogun State. However, when his major opponent in 2003 was Major General Muhammadu Buhari, the Yoruba electorate voted for him massively. Note that Obasanjo did things that made him unpopular in the Southwest. For example, he ordered the shooting on sight of OPC members, starved Lagos of federal allocations out of spite, and actively worked to disrupt the prevailing political consensus of the region. Yet, the Yoruba political elite not only preferred him to Buhari, they also merged their political party, the Alliance for Democracy (AD), with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the purpose of the 2003 presidential election, which led to the death of AD. In a February 21, 2003, confidential cable revealed by WikiLeaks in 2011, the US Consul General reported Tinubu to have told him that Yoruba people would vote for Obasanjo against Buhari because even though Obasanjo was unlikeable, he was Yoruba and Buhari wasn’t. The cable reads: “Turning to the presidential contest, Tinubu disclosed that he does not like President Obasanjo because he contributed to the end of democracy in Nigeria during his tenure as a military president and is now benefiting from that history. “That said, Tinubu admitted that he and his party, the Alliance for Democracy, must support Obasanjo. Southwest Nigeria is Yoruba land and the President is Yoruba. Tinubu”s [sic] party had no choice since it has not fielded a presidential candidate. Moreover, Obasanjo is the only candidate who stands a chance of blocking his rival, General Muhammadu Buhari, whose ethnocentrism would jeopardize Nigeria’s [sic] national unity. Buhari and his ilk are agents of destabilization who would be far worse than Obasanjo….” Tinubu and his group would later embrace the same Buhari the fear of whom had driven them to embrace and support an unlikeable Obasanjo. If the Yoruba voting pattern that I have established is any guide, Tinubu will win the majority of votes in the Southwest in spite of the apparent religious dissension in the region now. Should he, however, win only marginally or, worse, lose in the region, it would mean that religion, particularly Pentecostal Christianity, has finally succeeded in trumping ethnicity in Yoruba land. That would be seismic and invite a reworking of the sociology of the region, especially if Peter Obi makes significant inroads in Southwest states outside of Lagos (where Igbos constitute a significant voting bloc). It would mean that, like in Northern Nigeria, religion has graduated to a more significant predictor of political behavior than ethnicity in Yorubaland. That would have far-reaching consequences for the mapping of the contours of the Yoruba political landscape going forward. The second observational data that will be up for empirical corroboration or explosion in the 2023 election is the nexus between social media popularity and electoral triumph in presidential contests. I studied this systematically from 2011 to now. In 2011, when social media was still at its inchoate stage in Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan bestrode the social media scene like a colossus and pulverized Buhari in the election. Buhari returned the favor in 2015 after coalescing with the dominant political elites of the Southwest.Buhari dominated the social media space and ended up winning the election. In 2019, Buhari’s online devotees lost their creative juices and left the stage for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s online foot soldiers. Atiku ruled the social media conversation during electioneering and went ahead to win the election but was rigged out in one of the most brazen electoral heists in Nigeria’s history. Both INEC insiders and U.S. State Department officials have confirmed that Buhari lost the 2019 election by close to 2 million votes. The clamorousness of Peter Obi’s dominance of the Nigerian social media scene is uncannily redolent of Buhari’s 2015 social media supremacy. The temperaments of their supporters are eerily similar: like Buhari’s 2015 supporters, Obi’s votaries are aggressive, malicious, passionate, monomaniacal, worshipful in their admiration of their idol, intolerant of alternative views, self-righteous, and apt to invent easily falsifiable falsehoods to shore up their hero’s image. Like Buharists in 2015, Obi adherents, who call themselves by the singularly headless and uninspired moniker “Obi-dient,” have succeeded in shutting out the voices of people who support other candidates with their venomous vituperative darts, although they met their match on Twitter in former Enugu State governor Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani who requitted their verbal violence and caused the hashtag #ObidiEND to trend for days. Well, although the link between social media dominance and eventual electoral triumph in presidential contests is more correlational than causational, it nonetheless points to the symbiosis between online and offline political organizing. In other words, there’s a mutually reinforcing relationship between online visibility and offline success. For example, the exponential rise in PVC registration in the last few weeks has been attributed to the energy Obi has infused into the political process. But should Obi fall short in 2023 in spite of dominating social media, I would attribute his social media dominance to what we call the spiral of silence in communication theory. Spiral of silence occurs when vast swaths of people self-censor themselves because they fear that a vocal minority’s shrill opinions are the dominant and only acceptable opinions. Fear of insults and social isolation from the vocal minority keep the majority from expressing opinions that depart from the consensus of the vocal minority. Whatever it is, the 2023 election is shaping up to be an election like no other in the history of Nigeria. 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Trust+ Business Directory Aminiya E-Paper TV-Live · SUBSCRIBE HOME NEWS BUSINESS POLITICS PODCAST VIDEOS AGRICULTURE SPORTS OPINION EDUCATION ENTERTAINMENT INTERNATIONAL MORE SECTION EDITORIAL Happy New Hijrah Year -1444 AH By . . Mon, 01 Aug 2022 01:48:11 GMT Following the non-sighting of the crescent of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic lunar calendar on Thursday, July 28, 2022, Saturday, July 30, 2022, was declared by the Sultanate Council in Nigeria as the first day of the new Hijrah year, the 1444th year after the guided migration of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him (PBUH), from Makkah to Madina. This historic relocation, which took place in 622 Christian Era (CE), is referred to as the Hijrah. The Islamic calendar, which is purely based on lunar cycles, was introduced in 638CE by Umar bn Al-Khattab (RA), the second Caliph of Islam and a close companion of the Prophet (PBUH). Umar bn Al-Khattab (RA), consulted his advisers on the starting date of the Islamic calendar and it was agreed that the most appropriate reference point for the Islamic calendar was the year in which the Hijrah took place. The starting date for the calendar was chosen on the basis of lunar years; beginning from the first day of Muharram. The Hijrah is the central historical event of early Islam, which led to the foundation of the first Muslim city-state and a turning point in Islamic and world history. Hijrah years are identified by adding the acronym ‘AH’ which stands for ‘After Hijrah’ at the end. The Hijrah calendar consists of 12 lunar months namely: Muharram, Safar, Rabi ul-Awwal, Rabi ul-Akhir, Jimad al-Ula, Jimad al-Akhirah, Rajab, Sha’ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhul Qa’dah, and Dhul Hijjah. Allah, the Almighty, says in Qur’an 9:36 “Indeed, the number of months with Allah is 12 (lunar) months in the register of Allah (from) the day He created the heavens and the earth; of them, four are sacred.” Since the Hijrah calendar is purely lunar, it is shorter than the Gregorian calendar by about 11 days every year. The months in the Hijrah calendar are not associated with seasons; meaning that major Muslim festivals may occur over time in different seasons or at different times of the same Hijrah month. For example, the Hajj and Ramadan can take place in the summer as well as the winter. According to astrophysicists, it requires over a 33-year cycle for lunar months to take a complete turn and fall during the same season. The requirement in Islam for some rites to be observed on specified days underscores the significance of the Hijrah calendar. For instance, while the Ramadan fast begins on the first day of the Month of Ramadan, pilgrimage (Hajj) rites are observed between the 8th and 13th day of Dhul Hijjah. The two major festivals in Islam, Eid el-Fitr and Eid el-Adha, are respectively observed on the first day of the month of Shawwal and 10th day of Dhul Hijjah. Allah, the Almighty, states in Qur’an 2:189 “They ask you (O Muhammad) about the new moons. Say, ‘They are measurements of time for the people and for Hajj…” The past one year had been rough and tough for many Nigerians. Inflation, incessant collapse of the national grid, free fall of the naira, petrol queues and unpredictable pump-price of petrol characterized the experience of many Nigerians in 1443 AH. Corruption, which this administration promised to tackle, yet remains a scourge in the country. Insecurity, especially in recent weeks, has worsened beyond the imagination of many Nigerians. Besides giving gratitude to Allah for keeping us together as a country, the beginning of a new Hijrah year should be a period for sober reflection. Four decades earlier, Nigeria was one country her citizens, and foreigners alike, cherished to reside in. Unfortunately, successive leadership and governance failures negatively transformed many people from being patriotic, honest, altruistic and God-fearing citizens into corrupt, wicked, scandalous and self-serving individuals. Unless we collectively resolve, as leaders and the led, to abandon the evil path of corruption, injustice and greed, which a huge segment of the country’s population is treading with impunity, the country may well be doomed to linger in its current national misfortunes because Allah states in Qur’an 8:53 that He “will never change the grace which He has bestowed on a people until they change what is in their (own) souls.” It is time Nigerians put common national interests above personal concerns. In the same way that the Prophet (PBUH) migrated from his birthplace for the sake of propagating the Truth inspired by Allah, Muslims are by the same token enjoined to ‘migrate’ from religious bigotry and violence to tolerance and peaceful coexistence. Given the deep rooted mutual mistrust among followers of different religions in the country, we call on Muslims to use the occasion of the new Hijrah year to build bridges of understanding between them and followers of other religions. We encourage them to strengthen everything that promotes social cohesion; disregarding such things that seek to divide us. As a sacred period and one of the four months in which fighting is prohibited, we urge Muslims to take advantage of the new Hijrah year to offer special prayers for the country and its leadership; seeking divine intervention in all the critical challenges bedevilling Nigeria including kidnapping, banditry, insurgency, bad governance and dwindling economy. Happy New Hijrah Year! 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Governance: Zulum Of Borno Vs Ortom Of Benue – Angula Bishop Reuben ent-redefined.org Jul 23, 2022 8:23 PM Governance: Zulum Of Borno Vs Ortom Of Benue – Angula Bishop Reuben The current governor of Benue State, Pastor Samuel Ortom, has sited insecurity as the reason his government has failed to deliver on his numerous campaign promises. So therefore, I have decided to compare his government with that of Borno State, which is the epicenter of insecurity in Nigeria, and how both governors are tackling insecurity. Our people need to understand that poor leadership leads to insecurity. The quality of governance is central to any state’s ability to maintain order and bring peace to its territory. The challenges faced by both states are due to the accumulation of failed policies, poor leadership, and a lack of capacity over the years. The security situation in our country has worsened with time and we have regrettably lost more lives than what we should have lost if we had better leaders who could deliver on their campaign promises across the nation after being elected into power by Nigerians during elections. Benue State and Borno State are two states with many similarities, except in leadership style and approach. Both states were created in the same year, in 1976. They have Muslim governor and a Muslim deputy governor in Borno State, the same way we have a Christian governor and a Christian deputy governor in Benue State. They both start with the letter B and both have issues of security, although the magnitude of the security challenges in Borno State is far greater than that of Benue State. Both states share an international border with Cameroon, and both have fertile lands for agricultural purposes. The security challenges in both states have created a huge humanitarian crisis, no doubt, with millions of internally displaced people. Let’s take a look at how the governors of Benue and Borno are addressing the challenges below. THE APPROACH BY THE BORNO STATE GOVERNOR The Governor of Borno State, Prof. Zulum, understands that the insecurity situation in the country is a leadership deficiency, alleged to have been attributed to some key factors, which include corruption, poverty, unemployment, poor leadership, weak judiciary system, and poor government policies, etc., and the governor is doing everything humanly possible to address the root causes of these challenges with good governance, and today, the insecurity in Borno State has been reduced by more than 80%. His leadership approache has succeeded in chasing terrorists away from the North-East to the North-West. Let’s take a look at what Zulum is doing in Borno State. In his first 100 days as governor of Borno State, Prof. Zulum executed 120 projects. In one year, Zulum delivered 326 physical projects and 49 capital-intensive programs and policies. Among Zulum’s 326 physical projects were more than 6,000 urban and low-cost houses for the resettlement of IDPs and refugees who fled from attacks by Book Harm. The list includes 76 capital projects in education, which include new schools with 21st century facilities. There were 46 projects on health care services, which included 37 primary healthcare centers. 40 capital projects on infrastructure, which included new roads and the ongoing construction of Borno’s first flyover with upper and lower lanes. Also in the list were 18 capital projects: rural and urban electrification; drilling of 213 new boreholes with distribution lines and rehabilitation of 335 existing boreholes; maintenance of the Maiduguri water treatment plant; and mega water facilities. Using combined approaches to tackle Boko-haram and humanitarian outcomes, Zulum donated 300 operational vehicles (at once) and logistics to the Nigerian Armed Forces, he increased the monthly allowances of volunteers, like civilian JTF, and recruited over 1,000 vigilantes to help in the fight against terrorism. Zulum also became Borno’s chief humanitarian officer, touring communities to supervise livelihood support. Through investment, Zulum facilitated the restoration of civil authorities, agriculture, and self-employment through massive investment via a vocational training institute in Muna, which has 14 workshops for the training of displaced persons with a variety of entrepreneurial skills. In his second year in office, Zulum surpassed the 326 projects delivered in the first year and has even launched a 25-year recovery and development plan, which has been implemented. Today, he has delivered over 500 projects in the last three years, including 21 mega schools with 21st century facilities, which include primary, secondary, and sub-tertiary schools in 13 local government areas of Borno State. Recently, during a late-night visit to General Hospital in Monguno, Zulum announced the approval of a 30% salary increase for doctors in seven local government areas with peculiarities. Aside from medical doctors, nurses, midwives, lab technicians, pharmacists, and other health workers will also benefit from a 20% salary increment aimed at motivating them to deliver quality and affordable health care services. In a similar vein, Governor Zulum unveiled 90 units of mass transit buses to enhance the operations of Borno Express Corporation, a public transportation services company owned by the state government. The buses include 40 units of 50-seaters and 50 units of 14-seaters, all of which have a combined capacity of 2,740 passengers. Zulum also approved and handed over a cheque of N12 billion for the payment of gratuities for 4,862 retirees owed by his predecessors. Just recently, Zulum handed over 81 units of three-bedroom apartments along with cheques worth a total of N79 million to 81 medical doctors working in Borno State. Let me stop here. Apologies to Zulum for not capturing all his achievements. But through hard work, selflessness, commitment, and dedication to his people, he has emerged as a true servant leader who has restored hope in the midst of adversity. THE APPROACH BY THE BENUE STATE GOVERNOR The Governor of Benue State, Pastor Samuel Ortom, on the other hand, seems helpless about the root causes of the insecurity in the country and believes that it is by propaganda, crying or shouting, equipping his boys to insult his political opponents publicly, and jumping from one TV station to the other that will solve the problem. Let’s take a look at what Ortom is doing in Benue State. In his first 100 days as governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom was begging Benue people for patience, for there were absolutely no projects to commission. “He stated that his administration has achieved meaningfully within 100 days but will rather appeal to the Benue people to be patient with him because he is committed to running government with the fear of God, forgiveness, fairness, selflessness, reconciliation, and integration to enhance peace and development in order to remove the state from the shackles of poverty.” angry grin grin good man! He made the above statement on the occasion of his 100th day in office without mentioning any single project. After one year in office, Ortom renovated the School of Nursing and Midwives, Makurdi, Benue State, and empowered the youths with plenty of wheelbarrows to hustle. Some of his notable achievements after seven years include the failed Amnesty Program; the enactment of the Anti-Opening Grazing Law with a faulty implementation; the construction of less than 1 km of roads in the state capital; the commissioning of a single borehole in Kwande; and the conversion of the Cargo Airport signage to IDP Mega City. The achievements of Governor Samuel Ortom in seven years look like the achievements of councilors in the South. This is very shameful to say the least. Benue State has become a brewery of hunger, poverty, unemployment, corruption, and underdevelopment under the leadership of Governor Samuel Ortom despite earning close to 1 trillion Naira through monthly allocation disbursed by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), alongside the State’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), loans, bailout funds, Paris Club Refund, and other sources from June 2015 to December, 2021. Yet our governor still owes teachers more than 13 months in arrears; 8 months for state civil servants; 12 months for local government staff; and 6 years for local government pensioners. Yet Benue State is still struggling with a very high debt profile and insecurity despite receiving millions of security votes to protect the Benue people. This clearly demonstrates that our Governor is the laziest public servant in Nigeria; he sits idle and waits for federal allocation from Abuja every month, unable to think outside the box in addressing our numerous challenges. The achievements of Professor Babagana Umara Zulum in 3 years have not only surpassed the achievements of Governor Samuel Ortom in 7 years but those of Benue State since 2007 despite the insecurity challenges. This is shameful and embarrassing, but 2023 has presented us with anoth