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30 Oct

Malu and his verdict on Diya, others
A historical thread.

LT. General Samuel Victor Leonard Malu, CFR (1947-2017), who died in Cairo, Egypt will be more remembered for his role as the President of the Special Military Tribunal that tried Lt. General Oladipo Diya,...

the then Chief of General Staff, number two man in the country and others in 1998. As Chief of Army Staff under President Olusegun Obasanjo, those close to him maintained that he was a General who had courage.

On December 21, 1997, the Chief of General Staff who was the Number two man in the country, Lieutenant-General Donaldson Oladipo Diya from Odogbolu in Ogun State, along with some officers were arrested at different locations in the country.

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28 Oct

Gun for hire: Nigeria security fears spark boom in private protection

The white Toyota Hilux pickup truck pulls up hard at a roundabout in Ikoyi, a district of Lagos, Africa’s biggest city.

A thread.

The driver hits the horn — an aggressive, deafening bark — at the car he is now two inches away from.
A big man has arrived and the message is simple: make way. The knot of traffic swirling around the digital billboard in the centre of the roundabout begins to loosen.

The big man — or woman, or their child and nanny — is seated in the vehicle behind the Hilux: a black Mercedes G-Wagen SUV with tinted windows, which is trailed by another truck in a quasi-military shade of brownish-green.

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Olaudah Equiano®

@RealOlaudah

27 Oct

When the CCT clown described those who booed him for molesting a plaza security officer as 'Biafran Boys', this generation of Igbo Youths owned it.
When Malami used his 'Spare Parts' analogy as a derogatory put down on Igbo businessmen, this generation owned it.

When Buhari described our region as a 'Dot in a Circle', Onye Dot began trending everywhere.
What am I trying to say? There is a Renaissance sweeping through the heart of Igbo Land and its championed by Young People who are tired of the put down because of the civil war.

I can bet that the three descriptions above would have been greeted with shame and an attempt to show that we are still loyal if they were said 20 to 30 years ago. The present Igbo Youths won't take the things their parents swallowed sitting down.

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Olaudah Equiano®

@RealOlaudah

26 Oct

In reply, please quote;

Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.4/49

Date: 26th October, 2021

The Director of News
…………………………….

PRESS RELEASE

ANAMBRA ELECTIONS: IGP OVERHAULS SECURITY LANDSCAPE AHEAD OF POLLS

•Deploys DIG Joseph Egbunike to Anambra as Coordinating DIG Election Duties

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc (+), NPM, fdc has ordered a major overhauling of the security landscape..

in Anambra State ahead of the 6th November, 2021 Gubernatorial Elections in the State. The overhauling includes the deployment of selected seasoned Strategic Commanders from the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police and above to Anambra State for effective supervision...

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Olaudah Equiano®

@RealOlaudah

26 Oct

From his confinement miles away, Nnamdi Kanu growls on the streets. His people tremble indoors.
This is a bleak hour on the eastern front. The people are contending with forces that make for a Greek tragedy or a Shakespearean dilemma. It revolves around a man and a movement.

Because he wants to tear out of the federation, he inspires teary-eyed people, either in rage against him or faith in him.
In a few weeks, we shall have a governorship election. That seeks to confirm his kinsmen as citizens.

In a few months, the two political parties will argue their citizenship. The Igbos will assert fairness in zoning the president to their region. Underlying all this is the fear that they want neither governor nor president. They want Biafra.

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Olaudah Equiano®

@RealOlaudah

17 Oct

Our journey into the 4th republic started with hope. 1999 began the race with the rest of the world. Obasanjo was the man at the center, Tinubu, the man at the Center of Excellence. No other word can describe the opposition provided by BAT under AD.

The dice was cast and Tinubu beat the progressives Elders in the game they thought him. ACN was formed as an offshoot of the progressive family.
If all virtues of progressivism were lost by Asiwaju one was left, the skills and dynamism of opposition. It was simply excellent!

PDP was tackled on the streets and Obasanjo was taught several times in court, lessons in the rule of law and in constitutional democracy.
But ACN was slow paced in its conquest drive for political control of the South West, but for advance tribunal methodology, that saw to it...

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