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<b>ASABA, NIGERIA - Tragedy struck on Friday in Asaba, Delta State, when a 37-year-old house wife, Maureen Akowe, a graduate of sociology from the state-owned university allegedly lost her four-month-old baby to her dog.</b></div>
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It was gathered that the four-month-old baby was driven in the mother's car alongside the dog to a popular supermarket along Okpanam Road, Asaba, where the house wife had gone for shopping for the baby's upkeep.</div>
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Report says the unsuspecting nursing mother left the baby, a nanny and the dog inside the car and wound down the windows to allow ventilation into the car before moving into the supermarket.</div>
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<a href="http://leadership.ng/news/455719/dog-eats-up-4-month-old-baby-in-delta-state"><b>LEADERSHIP</b></a> newspaper gathered from witnesses that while she was busy shopping, the dog allegedly made straight for the little baby to eat her up while the nanny screamed for help but all to no avail.</div>
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The shouts by the nanny attracted two security personnel at the supermarket to the car but by which time the baby, identified as Chinonso, had been bitten severally on the stomach by the dog, leaving the baby in a pool of blood.</div>
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The dog had gone wild and was barking menacingly to scare onlooker by the time the baby's mother got wind of the development and rushed to the scene.</div>
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The baby was taken to a nearby hospital along Nnebisi Road, but it was too late by the time they got to the hospital as the baby, the woman's first child, had already died.</div>
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Speaking with the nanny who claimed to have hailed from one of the states in the eastern part of the country and did not want her name in the print, she said: </div>
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Madam carry the dog and baby and asked us to stay inside the car, because the dog was to be treated at the veterinary. Suddenly I saw the dog moving closer to the baby and I shouted for help when the dog opened its teeth and I ran out of the car to call madam but she did not come on time.</blockquote>
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Family sources said that the house wife had been married for 3 years without a baby before she took in for the baby that was delivered and named Chinonso.</div>
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In a swift reaction, the husband of the woman amidst tears, and did not want his name on the print said: </div>
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My wife said it is the devil's work and the devil's work will take her out of my house. I have warned her about the dog when I noticed that the dog had been behaving funny. She still kept carrying the dog claiming that she was going to give treatment to the dog. This is how the devil had ruined her.</blockquote>
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Woman's Pet Dog Eats Up Her 4-Month-Old Baby

ASABA, NIGERIA - Tragedy struck on Friday in Asaba, Delta State, when a 37-year-old house wife, Maureen Akowe, a graduate of sociology ...

Ooni Sijuwade, June 12 And Why I Called Obasanjo A Judas - Awujale

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<b>IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA - The late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade's role in the aftermath of the annulment of the 1993 presidential election is widely thought to have been less than noble. In <i>Awujale</i>, the recently released autobiography of Oba Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, Sijuade's connivance with those who annulled the election is brought into sharp focus.</b></div>
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His position as the most revered traditional ruler in Yorubaland has not innoculated Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse II, the Ooni of Ife, from public scorn. Since 1993, much of the mystique around him has been eroded, largely through the carnage sparked by the controversial annulment of the 1993 presidential election, a.k.a June 12. Oba Sijuade came out of the annulment saga with grave reputational injuries from which he is yet to, and may not, recover, given the decision of Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, to re-invite public attention to Sijuwade's role in one of the most grotesque episodes in Yoruba and Nigerian history.</div>
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The medium chosen by Oba Adetona is <i><b>Awujale</b></i>, his recently released autobiography, in which the 11th chapter is dedicated to the annulment and the struggle for the de-annulment of the election won by the late Chief M.K.O Abiola.</div>
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In <b><i>Awujale</i></b>, Adetona presents what can hardly be described as a worm's eye view. And in the book, the Ooni does not come out smelling like roses. As one of the most prominent Yoruba traditional rulers, Adetona was regularly invited to meetings with General Ibrahim Babangida, the military president that annulled the election and installed an Interim National Government, ING, headed by Chief Ernest Shonekan.</div>
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As the widespread anger provoked by the annulment and Babangida's ING contraption raged, the former military president hoped to limit the damage to his reputation and that of his government, appealing to leaders from all the country's geo-political zones, especially the South-West, which felt wounded because of Abiola.</div>
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For one of those meetings in Abuja, writes Adetona in <i><b>Awujale</b></i>, he arrived on a Thursday. The meeting was to hold the next day. While in his hotel room on the day of arrival, Adetona called the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, to say that there was a need for a meeting of Yoruba traditional rulers, where they could arrive at a common position to be presented at the next day's meeting with Babangida. Adeyemi agreed. Adetona then suggested that there was also a need to inform the Ooni and asked Adeyemi to accompany him to Sijuwade's room.</div>
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Adeyemi, however, was not keen because of the rivalry, over superiority, between him and the Ooni. Eventually, he gave in. The late Oba Adeyinka Oyekan, Oba of Lagos, was also informed. He agreed that a meeting was required, but refused to accompany them to the Ooni's suite. However, he said he would support whatever position the meeting adopted.</div>
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In the Ooni's suite, Adetona and Adeyemi met the Ife monarch dining with (now late) Alhaji Ado Bayero, Emir of Kano. Another Yoruba monarch, Oba Frederick Aroloye, the Owa of Idanre, writes Adetona, sat in a corner. When the two dining monarchs finished their meals, they went into the Ooni's room for a discussion, after which the Ooni came out to meet Adetona and Adeyemi.</div>
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When we told the Ooni the purpose of our meeting, he said he had met the Northern Emirs. Their position was the same as ours. We asked how and he said that they wanted a fresh meeting to be called of the Council of State along with us. The Council of State, as enshrined in the constitution, has powers to advise the President, Adetona writes.</blockquote>
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But what the Northern traditional rulers wanted was not exactly what the Yoruba monarchs wanted.</div>
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Our mandate from the Yorubas was that the election had been concluded and our son was clearly the winner. So, all we wanted was that they should just simply release the results, the author explains.</blockquote>
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Adetona then insisted that if a Council of State meeting was to be called, it should be for the purpose of ensuring that the election was de-annulled and the wish of the people respected. The Ooni agreed. But the Alaafin, writes Adetona, said there was no need for another meeting because the key members of the Council had already expressed their opposition to the annulment.</div>
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When Adetona and the Alaafin left the Ooni, they went to discuss seating arrangements for the next day's meeting with the other Yoruba traditional rulers. Apparently suspicious that the Ooni could switch positions, the monarchs agreed that they would sit in a way that would ensure that the Ife monarch was hemmed between two of them "so as to forestall any wavering of position".</div>
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The planned sitting arrangement was foiled. As the traditional rulers walked into the venue of the meeting, they found seats that bore each attendee's name. Babangida came in, explained the position of the government and sought reactions from his audience. The first came from Ibrahim Dasuki, then Sultan of Sokoto, who said very little apart from accusing the government of using traditional rulers to quell crises brought upon the nation by the government itself.</div>
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He suggested that Babangida should invite members of the Council of State to join the traditional rulers in the discussion of the annulment. The Ooni was the next to speak and presented the position of the Yoruba obas: declaration of Abiola as the winner.</div>
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It was something the meeting had not expected. "You could have heard a pin drop", writes Adetona. Next was Bayero, who expressed no opposition to what the Ooni said, but called for a fresh Council of State meeting. After him spoke the Oba of Benin, who condemned the annulment and rejected calls for a Council of State meeting.</div>
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The natural rulers continued turning the heat on Babangida. According to Adetona, Gbong Gwon Jos, the late Chief Fom Bot, told the meeting that he could not return to his domain if Babangida did not to de-annul the election, as his subjects had demanded, and asked the former president to find accommodation for him in Abuja. A traditional ruler from the South-East, Adetona writes, was more dramatic, telling Babangida to quit as president. "Please go. Please go", he shouted.</div>
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Then Babangida cut in, explaining that the decision to annul or de-annul was not solely his, but that of the military heirachy. He kept on calling on others to speak, but the obas observed that he was calling only people who sat to his right. The obas sat to his left. This drew a protest from the Alaafin, who Babangida was forced to ask to speak.</div>
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The Oyo monarch insisted that another Council of State meeting was needless because the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, a member, was out of the country, while some other key members had expressed their disapproval of the annulment in the media. Other traditional rulers told Babangida that he should save the country from a huge crisis by respecting the wishes of Nigerians.</div>
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Then, Babangida attempted one more throw of the dice. In a somewhat emotional tone, he told the meeting how close he and Abiola were. His government, he added, had paid Abiola hefty debts owed him by previous regimes. The sum, Babangida said, was about $600million. The scent of money scrambled a particular royal head - the Ooni's.</div>
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When he heard this piece of information, the Ooni became angry and said something to the effect that if Babangida paid him (Ooni) that much, he would be living on the Island of Capri in Italy, Adetona writes.</blockquote>
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Sijuade then got up to go to the toilet. Adetona followed, spewing criticisms at his fellow Oba for going against what the Yoruba traditional rulers had agreed on. After the meeting, watched by Uche Chukwumerije, Information Secretary in the Interim National Government, the Ooni told journalists that he was in support of Babangida's position that a fresh election should be held and that the Obas should return to their domains and tell their people to prepare for the election.</div>
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Adetona thought he had not heard Ooni right. </div>
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To assure myself that what I heard was true, I invited one of the reporters, who was there when the Ooni was speaking to my room. This was a reporter from <i>The Nigerian Tribune</i>. Fortunately, the Alaafin was with me when the reporter played the tape for us. We were stunned, the Awujale writes.</blockquote>
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From his hotel room, the Ooni called Adetona on the intercom and announced gleefully that he had told the world (through the media) of the Yoruba position. Adetona replied that he was not sure that Sijuwade's claim was correct. Adetona, accompanied by the Alaafin and the reporter, went over to Sijuwade's room. The Ooni repeated his claim that he presented the Yoruba position to the press.</div>
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He was instantly put to shame, when the reporter was asked to play his tape, which contained the opposite of Ooni's claim. Adetona and the Alaafin then pressured Ooni into granting another interview, restating the position of the Yoruba. He did and the reporter was asked to take the interview to media houses for publication the next day. The interview was published by newspapers the next day, but Chukwumerije had caused the first interview to be used on the network news of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA.</div>
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In the book, the Awujale was unsparing in his attack on former Nigerian leader, Olusegun Obasanjo. He described him as a Judas, "who would betray his people", who lacks credibility and squandered "the enormous goodwill", which he carried into office "with a performance that left him with a second term short of tangible achievements."</div>
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Oba Adetona recalled an event on 24 July 2002, the late Abraham Adesanya's 80th birthday in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, when in a ride with Obasanjo to a makeshift helipad he told Obasanjo how disappointed he had become over Obasanjo's pussy-footing on the issue of federalism. "This was the dividing line for me in our relationship", Awujale recalled.</div>
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Adesanya's birthday presented an opportunity for him to tell Obasanjo how he felt about him, when they rode together in a Mercedes Benz limousine, with former Ogun governor, Olusegun Osoba, as witness.</div>
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It was going to be a short trip but I had something to say and so it had to be said quickly enough while the three of us shared some privacy. I said there was a time when I had trusted Obasanjo so much so that I could swear by his name, but that the trust was now gone. Obasanjo asked why. I answered that Obasanjo was no longer credible. </blockquote>
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The Oba recalled further in the book, that at another time when he visited Obasanjo in Aso Rock, Obasanjo revisited their earlier conversation during which he told the Awujale, accusatorily, that he painted him a Judas. Awujale reconfirmed the labeling according to his account.</div>
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I told him that I not only remembered but still maintained that he was a Judas who would betray his people…I had no qualms about speaking plainly to him. In high office, people who surround leaders tend to skirt around the truth, Awujale wrote.</blockquote>
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The Awujale was clearly not impressed by Obasanjo's tenure as Nigeria's leader. </div>
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Eight years in office was ample time to put electricity on a very strong footing. Eight years was enough to put down a strong foot against corruption and make a clear difference. Eight years was adequate for orderliness and the rule of law to triumph in every facet of our society. These were the basis upon which I gave my support for the office, he submitted.</blockquote>
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Ooni Sijuwade, June 12 And Why I Called Obasanjo A Judas - Awujale

IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA - The late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade's role in the aftermath of the annulment of the 1993 presidential el...

Ooni's Stool: Aderemi Royal Family Begins Political Moves

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<b>ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - As the rites for the transition of Oba Okunade Sijuwade, the 50th Ooni of Ife, enter the final stage, heirs to the Ooni stool have begun moves to succeed the late monarch.</b></div>
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Though, the passage of Oba Sijuwade has not been officially announced, princes from three of the four ruling houses of Ile-Ife have started moves to ensure they emerge as the successor to the throne. </div>
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The four ruling houses in Ile-Ife are Lafogido, Giesi, Ogbooru and Osinkola.</div>
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While Oba Okunade Sijuwade is from the Ogbooru ruling house, his predecessor, Oba Adesoji Aderemi, was from Giesi ruling house.</div>
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However, members of the Aderemi Royal Family of Giesi Dynasty, this weekend began what could be termed political moves to emerge the next Ooni with visit to Mama HID Awolowo, the matriarch of the Awolowo family and the Yeye Oba of Ife. An unmentioned contender for the stool, Barrister Adedamola Aderemi is an inlaw to the Awolowos.</div>
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Mama Awolowo's daughter, Chief Mrs Tola Oyeniyi is the mother-in-law to Prince Aderemi.</div>
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Apart from their visit to Ikenne, Prince Aderemi also paid a courtesy call on the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. Observers see the visit to Ambode as a means of getting access to his political god-father, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the national leader of APC which is the ruling party in the State of Osun. In fact, the Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola is a well-known "disciple" of Tinubu.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prince Ademola Aderemi and his wife, a grand child of Mama Awolowo, with the matriarch of Awolowo</td></tr>
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Ooni's Stool: Aderemi Royal Family Begins Political Moves

ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - As the rites for the transition of Oba Okunade Sijuwade, the 50th Ooni of Ife, enter the final stage, heirs to the Oo...

Aregbesola Breaks Silence On Ooni As Rites Of Passage Continue

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<b>ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - Since the remains of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, arrived the palace, last Sunday, various rites of passage and rituals have been performed as part of the complex traditional processes a deity of Ooni's standing must pass through, sources close to the palace said yesterday.</b></div>
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<i>The Guardian</i> learnt that the monarch is one of 201 deities in Ife kingdom, and "since deities don't die", the Ooni, in the worldview of traditionalists, is alive until all rites and rituals pertaining to his transition are completed.</div>
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Sources said the rites of passage have reached advanced stage, while various traditional chiefs and priests are still busy with activities to enhance his seamless transition.</div>
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They noted that the rites of passage for the Ooni are not for public consumption, save initiates and members of various deities. </div>
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 A source close to the palace told the <b><a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/08/ooni-rites-of-passage-continue-as-aregbesola-breaks-silence/">GUARDIAN</a></b> reporter:</div>
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If an ordinary person tells you that he knows what is going on in respect of the Ooni, who is a deity, tell that person he is a liar. </blockquote>
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By tradition, you are not expected to know because you are an <i>'ogberi'</i> (uninitiated) and because of the medium you work for, don’t join others in feeding the public what you don’t know and what is untrue. </blockquote>
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I also need to inform you that there are different stages and processes in respect of rites and rituals to be performed concerning his transition. </blockquote>
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You people must wait until words of wisdom come from the palace on the status of the Ooni. We are the custodian of culture and tradition. If we are not in a hurry over what should be done, why must you be in a hurry about an event you know little or nothing about?</blockquote>
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Another source said Ooni's body has been taken to <i>Ile Ase</i> (chamber of authority) where it is believed a transited Ooni received all the spiritual powers he used in asserting authority during his lifetime.</div>
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The house is said to be unique in the sense that all authorities acquired from gods and godesses must be re-claimed from the 'living' monarch before he is laid to rest. A public pronouncement on the monarch might be made on or before Wednesday.</div>
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Yesterday, it was learnt some interested parties were already warming up as contenders to succeed the monarch. The four ruling houses in Ile-Ife are Lafogido, Giesi, Ogboru and Osinkola.</div>
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Oba Sijuwade, who hails from the Ogboru ruling house, succeeded his predecessor, the late Ooni of Ife, Sir Adesoji Aderemi, who came from the Osinkola ruling house.</div>
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Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, meanwhile, has for the first time spoken publicly on the death of the late Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, since the monarch died in a London hospital on July 27.</div>
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The governor disclosed that the last SMS he received from Oba Sijuwade was touching and promised to share its content with people of the state at a future date.</div>
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Speaking at a special sitting at the Osun State House of Assembly to mark the 50th birthday of the Speaker of Osun Assembly, Hon. Najeem Salaam, the governor disclosed that he discussed the content of the message with the Ife Royal Traditional Council when he held a meeting with the chiefs, recently, in Osogbo over Ooni's issue.</div>
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Aregbesola Breaks Silence On Ooni As Rites Of Passage Continue

ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - Since the remains of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, arrived the palace, last Sunday, various rites of passag...

Ooni Sijuwade's Family Removes Personal Effects From Palace

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<b>ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - The true picture of the status of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, whose reported demise has remained a controversial issue, is becoming clearer as relatives of the monarch have started evacuating their personal belongings from the palace.</b></div>
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Sources told <b><a href="http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/08/ooni-of-ifes-family-removes-personal-items-from-palace/">The Guardian</a></b> that removal of personal effects of the royal family began yesterday and continued yesterday.</div>
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However, Ife traditional chiefs still maintain that the Ooni still lives until the public hears contrary information about the monarch from them.</div>
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Yesterday, the chiefs still held another round of long meeting at the outer part of the courtyard. Details of the meeting were not immediately known but sources said the discussion might not be unconnected with necessary 'rites of passage of the departed' monarch before news about his demise is broken to the public.</div>
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A source told <i>The Guardian </i>that in Ife Kingdom and in accordance with the rich culture and customs of the ancient town, a reigning Ooni is presumed to be alive until all necessary rites are observed and appropriate chief makes public announcement regarding his passage.</div>
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The Guardian learnt that the evacuation of the personal property of members of the Royal Family from the palace is part of activities signposting that something serious might have happened to the monarch. </div>
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"I can confirm to you that those who are close to the royal family have started to remove their personal effects from the palace.</div>
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The exercise began on Tuesday and it also continued yesterday.” The source said that all property belonging to members of the royal family must be removed from the palace to prevent looting by the public once certain two traditional chiefs, who have not been to the palace since the rumoured demise of the monarch were sighted in the royal residence.</div>
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Despite the evacuation of property of members of the royal family, normal activities was still going on in the outer courtyard while security within and outside the palace is relaxed.</div>
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Ooni Sijuwade's Family Removes Personal Effects From Palace

ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - The true picture of the status of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, whose reported demise has remained a contro...

Niger-Delta Amnesty Programme: Brig. Paul Boroh Takes Over From Kingsley Kuku

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday appointed General P. T. Boroh as the new coordinator of the Amnesty Programme for the Niger Delta militants.</b></div>
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A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said the appointment takes immediate effect.</div>
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Adesina in the statement said the appointment of Boroh is expected to douse the tension over the outstanding allowances.</div>
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Brig. Boroh, whose appointment takes immediate effect, is to take over the responsibilities of the former Special Adviser to President Jonathan on Niger Delta who also doubled as Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme. </div>
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The appointment of a new Coordinator for the Amnesty Programme is expected to lead to the speedy resolution of recent hitches in its implementation such as the non-payment of outstanding allowances to ex-militants.</div>
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The Amnesty Programme was established by late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in 2009 to calm the nerves of Niger Delta militants who were disrupting oil production on account of alleged maginalisation of the oil rich region in the distribution of the oil wealth in the country.</div>
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Ooni of Ife: Osun Assembly Condoles Aregbesola Even As Traditional Council Debunks "Death Rumour"

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<b>ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - Controversies have trailed the reported death of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade (Olubuse II) as the Royal Traditional Council (RTC) of the town, Wednesday said the paramount ruler is alive and in good state of health.</b></div>
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The RTC, which comprises of all traditional chiefs and title holders in Ile-Ife said Oba Sijuade is not only in sound state of health but added that the royal father was preparing for son's wedding holding next week Sunday in Lagos.</div>
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Also speaking, secretary Royal Traditional Council of Ife, the <i>Ladin of Ife</i>, High Chief Adetoye Odewole, said Ooni is hale and hearty and even spoke to the chiefs on phone few hours earlier.</div>
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They did it in 1984, also in 2004 and now, these people are coming up with another rumour. Oba Sijuade remains in sound state of health.</div>
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Commenting similar in vein, Chairman of Ife Development Board, Prof. Muib Opeloye, said Ife as a town with rich tradition has its way of managing its affairs.</div>
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Opeloye maintained the royal father was preparing for his son's wedding, urging people not to panic and go about their normal daily activities.</div>
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Many indigenes and residents of Ife had converged at entrance of the palace but were prevented from going inside by guards.</div>
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But Osun State House of Assembly has expressed its sympathy to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, State Council of Traditional rulers and chiefs, the good people of ancient city of Ile-Ife and the immediate and extended families of the late Oba Okunade Sijwade Olubuse, the Ooni of Ife as the great King joined his ancestors.</div>
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In a statement issued by the Speaker's spokesman, Mr. Goke Butika, the parliament in a condolence message by the Speaker, Mr Najeem Salaam "expressed his regret and shock over the transition of the natural ruler to the silent land of his forebear, saying the engine room of royalty and the custody of Yoruba cosmology has just been temporarily grounded by the clog of death".</div>
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Salaam then "celebrated the life and time of the great king, Oba Sijuwade, attesting that the monarch exuded unique royalty almost equivalent of imperial culture that could not be rivaled while he called the shot on the revered stool of his fathers.</div>
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"The parliament then sent its condolence to the governor over the loss of the monarch and prayed that the Supreme Eludumare, the Cherisher of Aiye would rest the late natural father", the statement added.</div>
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Ooni of Ife: Osun Assembly Condoles Aregbesola Even As Traditional Council Debunks "Death Rumour"

ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - Controversies have trailed the reported death of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade (Olubuse II) as the Royal Trad...

Profile of Late Oba Okunade Sijuwade, The 50th Ooni of Ife

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<b>ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, reportedly passed on, on Tuesday, at 85 years and seven months. He was born on January 1, 1930.</b></div>
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Unconfirmed sources said the monarch, who was said to have been flown out of the country since last Friday, died in the United Kingdom.</div>
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Most top Ife indigenes and Osun State government officials contacted by <i>The PUNCH </i>late on Tuesday kept sealed lips but some traditional rulers in the state confirmed that Sijuwade had died.</div>
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One Osun traditional ruler, who asked not to be quoted, confided in one of our correspondents on the phone last night that the Ife monarch had died.</div>
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He said: "The Ooni is dead. It is true. He died about two hours ago in the UK. His two oloris (wives) – Olori Moni and Olori Odun – were with him in the UK.</div>
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"He travelled out for treatment anytime he fell ill but he couldn't make it this time. It is sad but I believe it is God's time. There was nothing anyone could do to stop it.</div>
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"Tokunbo, his eldest child, will probably leave for the UK this evening. There is nothing we can do but we take solace in the fact that he lived well. The proper announcement will be done later".</div>
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The traditional ruler's account was corroborated by another monarch, who explained that the Ooni was indeed flown out of the country five days ago in an air ambulance after he slumped.</div>
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A call to the line of the monarch was not answered.</div>
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There had been fears over the health of the first class monarch since 2013 when he was taken out of the country for medical attention for over a month.</div>
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Oba Sijuwade ascended the throne in December 1980.</div>
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Born on January 1, 1930, Sijuwade became the fiftieth ruler of the ancient kingdom of Ife, popularly referred to as the cradle and source of the Yoruba, in 1980.</div>
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Though he took the name Alayeluwa Olubuse II upon his installation, he dropped "Alayeluwa" from his name a few years back, saying that only God is fit to be called "Alayeluwa".</div>
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Alayeluwa means omniscience.</div>
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A former commissioner and indigene of Ife, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "It is true. I was with him on Wednesday. Last Thursday when we held the political summit in Ife, he supported us and sent an emissary to the summit. He slumped on Thursday and was rushed to Ibadan airport from where he was flown to Lagos in an air ambulance en route to England for treatment. He became stable by Saturday. It is sad that he relapsed and passed on."</div>
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The flamboyant traditional ruler was crowned king on December 6, 1980 in a colourful ceremony attended by prominent traditional rulers like the Emir of Kano, Oba of Benin, Amayanabo of Opobo and the Olu of Warri as well as the representatives of the Queen of England.</div>
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It was gathered that the Ife traditional council and the Osun State traditional council would meet on Wednesday.</div>
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A competent source disclosed that emissaries from the two councils would visit the Governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, to officially break the news to the governor.</div>
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Sijuwade was born to the Ogboru ruling house. The handsome king was a grandson of the Ooni Sijuwade Adelekan Olubuse I. He studied at the Abeokuta Grammar School and Oduduwa College in Ile-Ife.</div>
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He worked for three years in his father's business and later did a two-year stint with the <i>Nigerian Tribune,</i> before attending the Northampton College in the United Kingdom to study Business Management.</div>
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At the young age of 30, he became a manager in Leventis, a Greek-Nigerian conglomerate. In 1963, he became the Sales Director of the state-owned National Motors in Lagos. After spotting a business opportunity during a 1964 visit to the Soviet Union, he formed a company to distribute Soviet-built vehicles and equipment in Nigeria. This later became the nucleus of his widespread business empire. He also invested in real estate in his home town of Ile-Ife. By the time Sijuwade was crowned Ooni in 1980 he had become a wealthy man, whose fame and connection was global.</div>
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When Sijuwade became the Ooni, he inherited an ongoing dispute over supremacy between the obas of Yorubaland. In 1967 the crisis had been resolved when the late Yoruba sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was chosen as the leader of the Yoruba. In 1976, the Governor of Oyo State, General David Jemibewon, had decreed that the Ooni of Ife would be the permanent chairman of the State Council of Obas and Chiefs. Other Obas led by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, said the position should rotate. The dispute calmed down when Osun State was carved out of Oyo State in August 1991, but still persisted. In January 2009, Sijuwade was quoted as saying that Oba Adeyemi was ruling a dead empire (the Oyo Empire, which collapsed in 1793). Adeyemi responded by citing "absurdities" in Sijuwade's statements and saying the Ooni "is not in tune with his own history".</div>
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It will be recalled that Oba Adeyemi, the Permanent Chairman of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs, was conspicuously absent from a meeting of Yoruba leaders in April 2010.</div>
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In February 2009, Sijuwade helped mediate in a dispute over land ownership between the communities of Ife and Modakeke, resolved in part through the elevation of the Ogunsua of Modakeke as an Oba.</div>
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In August 2010 he mediated in the ownership dispute between Oyo and Osun states concerning Ladoke Akintola University, calling a meeting attended by Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, governor of Osun State, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, governor of Oyo State and the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Education which resulted in an action plan.</div>
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Profile of Late Oba Okunade Sijuwade, The 50th Ooni of Ife

ILE-IFE, NIGERIA - Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, reportedly passed on, on Tuesday, at 85 years and seven months. He was born on Ja...

[GRAPHIC PHOTO]: Horror!!! Teenager Kills 4-Year-Old; Removes Kidney, Intestine

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<b>LAGOS, NIGERIA - A 16-year-old boy, Tajudeen Azeez, has been arrested by the Lagos State police command for allegedly killing a four-year-old boy in Ijanikin area of the State. </b></div>
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Azeez reportedly removed the deceased's intestine and kidney after killing him. He was said to have lured the deceased to the back of an Anglican Primary School, in the morning and committed the murder there, <i><b>Daily Trust </b></i>reports.</div>
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Giving his statement at the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Yaba, where he is being detained, the suspect said one Osho promised to give him ₦50,000 if he could provide him with fresh human parts.</div>
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At first, I did not want to succumb to the temptation but it kept coming. When I woke up this morning (Monday), I saw Ibrahim at the back of the house. I told him to escort me to a primary school not too far from the house. The name of the school is Anglican Primary School, Ijanikin. </div>
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He followed me to the place and on arrival there, I stabbed him with a knife from behind. He fell down and I strangled him with a rope. I then cut his stomach open with the knife. I am sorry for what I did.</div>
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According to the acting police public relations officer for the Lagos Command, Patricia Amadin, the body of the deceased had been deposited at a government mortuary.</div>
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She said the suspect was arrested following intelligence information.</div>
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"Based on the strength of the information, the DPO and his men raced to the place. On arrival, they found the lifeless body of a four-year-old boy while the suspect was soaked in the deceased blood.</div>
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[VIDEO]: Gov Fayose Speaks On Ekiti, Tinubu, APC In Interview With Tribune

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Welcome To Nasarawa's "One Man Village" Where Armed Hoodlums Decide Residency

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<b>NASARAWA, NIGERIA - Armed Robbery in Karu local government area of Nasarawa State has taken a new turn as some residents receive warning from robbers to relocate or risk being killed. Some have been visited several times in the last six months. AGBO-PAUL AUGUSTINE visited one of the affected communities and reports.</b></div>
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"They are so powerful that the police are even scared to venture into the environment to quash their terror on us. The boys operate with ease, rob at will and even determine who stays in the area and who is an undesirable element," said a terrified 32-year-old Rose Uchenna who has been robbed thrice in the last six months.</div>
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Koroduma community popularly known as 'One Man Village' is located on the Abuja-Keffi highway in Nasarawa State, about 15km from Abuja city. It is a densely populated settlement and notorious for crimes as criminals and hoodlums operate freely.</div>
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Most of the residents live in fear as sleeping at night has become more of a dreaded necessity than actual rest. The gang of robbers who terrorise the people, according to residents who spoke with <b>LEADERSHIP</b> Weekend, have good knowledge of most homes in the area.</div>
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Sources said they even have information of newly acquired purchases of valuables by residents, also those who secure a new job, who made good sales in business and so forth. They are fully abreast with the daily businesses in the area and rob any household they feel has something to offer.</div>
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This dare-devil gangs raid shops, stores and homes leaving in their trail, tears and sorrow. The residents live in perpetual fear. A victim of a recent attack, Mary Agada told LEADERSHIP Weekend that the hoodlums attack even those leaving for work in the early hours and those returning late. "They target many ladies in the night and early in the morning, snatching whatever they like and even raping some in some instances," she said.</div>
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When LEADERSHIP Weekend visited Conkoro Street after a recent robbery attack victims cried for help as they narrate their ordeal.</div>
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During this attack, a compound full of small business people who barely make a living out of their trade was their target, LEADERSHIP Weekend learnt as firewood sellers, hair stylists, salespersons and small traders were robbed and dispossessed of their belongings.</div>
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Victims said, in 2015 alone, dare devil robbers visited three times and in their recent attack, they didn’t just rob but came with a vacation notice to some of the residents. "You people are undesirable elements in our midst, so leave," was the message from the robbers.</div>
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A victim, who simply gave her name as Rose told LEADERSHIP Weekend that she was told to vacate the area by the robbers who promised to visit again and threatened to shoot her dead if she refused to move out.</div>
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"After collecting my phones, money and that of my sister, one of them told me that my time is up in the area and I should leave as I am an undesirable element in the community. I am very scared and preparing to relocate immediately," Rose said.</div>
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Another victim of the attack, Silas Achadu, told LEADERSHIP Weekend that after three attacks in six months, his sisters have fled the area as they are also on the warning list as 'undesirables'.</div>
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"It is very unusual to be robbed in one house three times in six months. This people want to kill us and the message is very clear, ‘relocate or you die.’ The residents of this area are helpless," Achadu lamented.</div>
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Other residents who spoke with LEADERSHIP Weekend wondered why hoodlums would determine who stays in a community that belongs to all. They decried the activities of the group, stating that their activities constitute a grave danger to life and property in the neighbourhood.</div>
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They equally called on the government of Nasarawa State to come to their aid to avoid further destruction of property.</div>
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Findings by LEADERSHIP Weekend revealed that most of the attacks on residents have been largely unreported owing to fear of further targets by the hoodlum, who carefully select their targets.</div>
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When LEADERSHIP Weekend visited the Mai Koroduma Palace, Alhaji Ahmadu Bako admitted the prevalence of robbery incidents in his domain but was not aware that some residents have been handpicked and asked to vacate the community by robbers.</div>
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Bako, who was not happy with the victims who have not reported the incidences to the palace for action, noted that the palace have been working with the police to combat the wave of robberies in the community.</div>
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When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer in New Nyanya, Karu, told LEADERSHIP Weekend that the division is handicapped with lack of operational vehicles. She said the division is still trying to source for fund to fix a damaged patrol van after a recent gun duel with robbers where two of her men were injured.</div>
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She however blamed the residents for not coming to the police to complain after being attacked in the past.</div>
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The crime wave in Karu local government in recent times is getting many residents scared as a day hardly passes without a robbery incident. LEADERSHIP Weekend was told that taxis are often used at nights especially from 10pm to rob unsuspecting passengers returning from work. Popularly known as one chance, criminals who disguised as passengers often dispossess innocent people of their belongings.</div>
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Ladies are now scared of standing alone on the Abuja-Keffi highway at night as many have been victims of mostly robbers on motorcycles.</div>
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Residents urge the various security agencies to step up surveillance and intelligence gathering to reduce the incessant robberies in the area.</div>
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Why Nnamdi Kanu’s Biafra Project Must Be Stopped - By Joe Igbokwe

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<b>Ever since former President Goodluck Jonathan lost the presidential election on March 28, 2015 which some of us knew he would never win based on the facts that we all knew and the statistics available, a majority of the Igbo have been unhappy and angry. They have been cursing and abusing the President and the All Progressives Congress leaders wishing that President Buhari never existed and the APC never formed. Many of them have been so frustrated after the election that they are now looking for a way to get back to the APC-controlled Federal Government.</b></div>
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Now, one Nnamdi Kanu who has been dreaming about the State of Biafra has provided a space for them to vent their anger. Some of them have joined him to begin to wish for the State of Biafra. Suddenly, the so-called Radio Biafra has created a momentum for them. On Facebook, I have watched with keen interest what these guys dish out on a daily basis in the name of fighting for Biafra. They tell blatant lies, create havoc, make terrible noise, they abuse other Nigerians, and they preach unimaginable propaganda and hate that at once put Igboland in potential danger. I have been waiting for the South-East governors to speak up but they have maintained a deafening silence that suggests complicity. I have also waited for our elders to caution this young man but nothing has happened. With the so-called Radio Biafra, Kanu has unleashed an unimaginable trailer-load of lies and potentially dangerous propaganda that have put the Igbo nation in danger. It is now 45 years after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War and I think that Igbo must rise up to stop this man who apparently never saw the 1967-1970 Civil War and who may not know the implications of what he is doing. He has never consulted anybody to seek his opinion. He has been speaking to the gullible and not too educated people in Igboland, and very soon these uneducated people will take a dangerous decision that may decimate and destroy Igboland. Soon, our people will start complaining that they were not consulted. To be fore-warned is to be fore-armed.</div>
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Last week, I saw a photo of a group of people that gave the impression that they are getting a military training somewhere in Igboland. Later, I saw another photograph on Facebook with some youths bearing guns and Kanu standing with them. I may not know where these pictures came from and what they are planning to do but this is the time to speak out and I urge anybody who is anybody who understands where we are coming from to stand up now to be counted. Woe betides a nation whose leaders are children. If we elders do not talk about this evil, posterity will never forgive us. Let us speak out and if these children do not hear us, then it should be on record that we spoke. About a month ago, the barrage of lies and uncontrolled propaganda Radio Biafra dished out everyday drew the attention of the National Broadcasting Commission which asked Nigerians to stop listening to the pirate radio station.</div>
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Now, here are compelling reasons why the Igbo must remain in Nigeria in their own interest:</div>
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The Igbo fought a civil war of self-determination between 1967 and 1970 and lost about one million people. This should be taken as a huge price for the unity of this country. Having made this monumental supreme price, I think the Igbo should work for the unity of this country based on social justice, equity and fair play.</div>
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Nigeria has three major ethnic groups: Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba and Igbo. The Hausa/Fulani Empire has Hausa people stretching all through the Sahel to the Sudan. They are mostly Muslims and they have contact with the Arab world. The Yoruba nation has Togo, Benin Republic, Sierra Leone and even up to Brazil and Cuba to run to where their kinsmen are. The Igbo nation has no outlet anywhere in the world where the language is spoken. Therefore, they must see Nigeria as where they belong and work for its survival.</div>
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Nigeria provided a big space for the Igbo to spread their tentacles, explore, excel and blossom. The South-East is too small for this highly mobile and dynamic people to thrive.</div>
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The world pays attention to Nigeria today because of our size and population. If Nigeria splits into smaller countries, the world will pack their bag and baggage and leave. Population and size make a nation a destination.</div>
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Ndigbo control between 60 and 70 per cent of all the imports in Nigeria and other Nigerians, Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, Ijaw, Efik, Birom, Tiv, Idoma etc provide a huge market for Igbo mobile and big-time traders.</div>
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Monumental inter-marriages between the Igbo and Yoruba and other ethnic groups have thrived for close to 70 years now that we cannot just dismiss all these with a wave of the hand.</div>
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Ndigbo own huge and massive investments in property in Lagos and Abuja, and other state capitals in Nigeria. Now, are you going to wish all this away?</div>
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Other Nigerian cities have provided safe havens for the Igbo as places to run to cool off whenever self-inflicted crises arise or other problems. When kidnapping became a way of life in the South-East, our people moved to other parts of Nigeria to settle. Now, where will the Igbo go when confronted with these problems in Biafra?</div>
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How can the Igbo thrive without their Lagos and Abuja or Port Harcourt? What happens to all their connections and relationships in these places?</div>
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We have been so intermarried, interwoven, intertwined, inter-related that the idea of separation may not be encouraged. I do not want to lose my friends from the other parts of Nigeria for anything.</div>
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I can go on but there is no need to continue to do so. We must be strong enough to stop this world’s old problems of looking down on people who are different from us. This is the problem of Nigeria. Nigeria’s diversity is a big plus for all of us to excel. United we stand, divided we fall. I confess that the Igbo have not played better politics in Nigeria since 1970 and that has been our bane. Anytime Nigeria wants to change a bad leadership in the country, the Igbo as a bloc will resist it. It happened in 1993 and we lost everything. In 2015, the Igbo were at it again but forces of history prevailed. The Igbo can do better than this.</div>
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However, I want Nigerian leaders to show leadership by carrying all Nigerians along in distributing power and resources. If there is no justice, there will be no peace. If there is no peace, there will be no progress. Let justice prevail.</div>
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Let us be fair to all concerned. If the truth must prevail and it must prevail, Nigeria has not been fair to Igbo since the end of the civil war. They tell us that there is no victor and no vanquished but in actions and deeds, the victors are still celebrating and enjoying the spoils of the war while the defeated are still languishing in abject neglect. For instance, of all the six zones in Nigeria, only the South-East zone has five states. We have found solace in all these because we have found out that those who are still oppressing the Igbo in Nigeria are not better. We also take solace in the findings of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council that all acts of indignity against human persons, against human society debase the perpetrators more than the victims. It is not that the offended cannot forgive but have the offenders repented? This injustice must stop now for the sake of unity of this country. I wrote <i>Igbos: 25 Years After Biafra</i> in 1995 thinking that the book will prick the conscience of other Nigerians but they have not paid any attention. It has been business as usual. Now, President Buhari must address this injustice. Case rested!</div>
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