By Ejike Anyaduba
If there is anybody eager to rewrite history just to intone falsehood and malign a group of people, it is the squit called Reno Omokri.
It is not clear what informs his choice of being an ethnic profiler. But whatever his reason, be it complex(inferiority) or the need to generate traffic on his X handle (formerly known as Twitter), or both, one thing is certain he has chosen for himself an unenviable task that offers no good reward.
By Reno Omokri
(First published in my column, The Alternative, in today’s ThisDay).
I have just returned from a trip to Turkey, where I was on a pilgrimage to some of the seven churches of Asia, also known as the seven churches of Revelations.
I visited Smyrna (now known as Izmir), Pergamum (now known as Bergama, and Ephesus (now known as Efes). Prior to this visit, I had visited Laodicea (now known as Laodikeia). There are no remnants of some of the other churches, but I did get to see Cappadocia.
And
then I went to Istanbul and the city blew my mind. It was my third visit to
Istanbul, but my first time staying on the Asian side.
Istanbul has a rich history that can probably bring you to tears. This city used to be known as Constantinople, and was the center of orthodox Christianity, until on 29 May 1453, when it was conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Note I said Muslim Ottoman Empire, not Islamic Ottoman Empire.
By Reno Omokri
On September 21, 2021, Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the Buhari junta ‘is not interested in naming and shaming Boko Haram’s sponsors”. A month later, on October 21, 2021, Abubakar Malami, Buhari’s Attorney General of the Federation, said the Buhari regime had identified Sunday Igboho’s ‘sponsors’. We are watching!
It is apparent to any unbiased observer that Buhari lacks the impartiality to be Nigeria’s leader. He is obviously a tribal irredentist. And his irredentism is seen in the way he treats terrorists and bandits who are almost 100% from his ethnic Fulani nationality, which is in stark contrast to how he treats people of other ethnicities.
We do not even need to look too far to see Buhari’s parochialism. The Nigerian Federal Government has three arms, the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary. And Buhari had abused his Presidential powers to ensure that all three of these arms are headed by Northern Muslim Males.
By Ayo Baje
“Please,
pray for me. I have reasons to believe that my life is in
danger and that some powerful political forces want to silence me forever
for speaking the truth. For speaking on behalf of the holy martyrs of
thousands of innocent children, women, elderly and youths that have
been killed in our beloved country. It is only in our benighted
country that a man who speaks from his conscience can be hounded like
a common criminal.”
–Dr. Obadiah Mailafia (now of blessed memory) on September 11, 2020
In life he was definitely one of the few bearers of the
unquenchable torch of timeless Truth. And he must have seen death coming, for
having the audacity to speak that same bitter Truth to power. More so, in this
long, dark tunnel of quasi-democracy garbed in the bloody garment of daring
despotism. So, it was only a matter of time for the haters of Truth to undo
him, characteristically in nebulous circumstances. Talk about the ominous hoot
of the owl at midnight and the sudden death of the naked baby the next
dawn!
But as yours truly has insisted, “Truth is eternal while lies are short-distance runners”. Or, to put it in the warm words of the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson, “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons ‘.
By Reno Omokri
The 2019 xenophobia attacks in South Africa, for which President Muhammadu Buhari visited South Africa on Thursday, October 3, 2019, was the defining proof that the rest of Africa needed to see, to convince them that Nigeria, under Muhammad Buhari, has become a paper tiger, whose bark is worse than its bite.
Come to think of it. How can
Nigerians be attacked in unprovoked xenophobic outrage in South Africa, and it
is the Nigerian President who goes to grovel to the South African leader, a
neophyte, like Cyril Ramaphosa, nonetheless?
It beggars belief. Obasanjo would never have done that, and former President
Jonathan did not do it.
Nigerians may recall that on March 4, 2012, South Africa deported 125 Nigerians over Yellow Fever Certificates. The very next day, then-President Jonathan ordered the retaliatory deportation of 84 South Africans.
By Reno Omokri
Any follower of Nigeria’s federal budget since May 29, 2015, may be forgiven if they thought that Nigeria, under President Buhari, had performed a Hitler-style Anschluss, and had annexed Niger Republic as part of Nigeria, because of Buhari’s huge spending (of Nigeria’s money), to improve infrastructure in Niger Republic.
While Seme Border-Badagry express road, the only road currently linking Nigeria to other West African coastal nations, remains in ruins and looks as if it has been bombed, Buhari had spent huge resources developing road networks between Nigeria and Niger Republic.
On February 26, 2020, the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, announced that the government had awarded a contract for the construction of two roads from Sokoto and Jigawa States up to Niger Republic, at the cost of $81 million dollars.
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