WHY NIGERIANS ARE DISCUSSING YESTERDAY’S MATTERS TODAY

Series: Wailing and Loud Lamentation in the Land as the Original Next Level!

THE DISAPPEARING FADAMAS…THE FOLLY OF A PEOPLE AND WHY DUBAI IS THE NEW MECCA FOR NIGERIANS

In fact, what the nation should be talking about now is how the mega dams and massive irrigation projects, both of which have acted as catalysts to worsen the Northern Nigerian ecology and caused the near extinction of the fadamas – traditional agriculture in the North, have contributed to causing famine and general poverty in Nigeria, particularly in the North, earning her the shame of being labelled the POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.

We should also, be talking about the effects of over-grazing on the Nigerian environment – intractable desertification (North) and erosion/flooding (South, particularly the South East), and impending flooding all over the nation due to poor land management and climate change, amongst others.

Where there is a vision, the nation ought to have turned the whole desert up North into oceans and seas, bursting with agricultural activities, having all sorts of sports such as car racing – FORMULA 1, skyscrapers, ice skating in the desert, the trans Sahara high way to Europe with HS2 speed train, etc.

In fact, what Nigerians and indeed, all persons of African ancestry are good for, is sight-seeing and not inventions, creativity, innovations, imaginations, strategic deep thinking, futuristic planning – the reasons why our boys have continued to be ambushed and killed time and again by a band of street urchins – the Almajiris, who form the BOKO HARAM FIGHTER FORCE (BHFF), despite all my security inputs and leads from over here to the Nigeria authorities.

NIGERIA: OF MOON SIGHTING AND MOON LANDING

In this day and age when the whole West, particularly the U.S.A, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Moon Landing, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III is ever on the street with his vuvuzela asking people to do moon sighting, which before or afterwards foolish Nigerians will proceed on religious tourism to fuel the economic purse of Saudi Arabia.

Thus, unarguably, whilst the Arab invaders left Africans with Koran to be beheading and bombing themselves, stealing, killing, maiming and destroying themselves, the Christian West left them with the Bible with which they have been using to rob “the least of these ones” of their widow’s mites. All this nonsense is due to the pervasive foolishness of all persons of African ancestry and their gross lack of imagination, innovation, creativity and inventiveness – the effect of the colonial education whose goal is perpetual mental slavery as evidenced amongst successive generations of all persons of African ancestry – the people politically and pejoratively referred to by the rest of the world as BLACKS.

THE SPACE KINGDOM OR THE KINGDOM OF THE GODS

KHALIFA MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND AYATOLLAH SA’ADU MUHAMMADU ABUBAKAR III: OF MOON SIGHTING AND MOON LANDING -SHARIADOM AND SPACEDOM

As a matter of fact, a Muhammadu Buhari putting on his thinking cap should in the 21st century be thinking of using his RUGA pet project to annex the kingdom of the gods or acquire the so-called “Ruga Settlements” in space – the Space Kingdom.

In year 2000, Mr. Buhari in his capacity as the President of the West African Cattle Breeders Association (WACBA) said in one of his public lectures that the whole of West Africa boasted of 400, 000, 000 herds of cattle. Therefore, shouldn’t he be thinking of putting the now about 750, 000, 000 herds of cattle in West Africa on the moon by 2021, whilst aiming to put a commune of the Fulbes on Mars by 2023? Alas, this is not how his dirty and darkest mindset works – with such an ingrained BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS in him, Mr. Buhari thinks not of SPACEDOM, but of SHARIADOM, and I shudder to think the Nigerian people will again put up with this dud for the next four years – a man who perpetually sees himself as the kinsman redeemer – THE DAVID BEN-GURION OF THE FULBES WORLDWIDE!

YES, THE COW OWNERS ARMED THE ALMAJIRI-NOMADIC SHEPHERDS

BELOW ARE MY PERSONAL EFFORTS IN TRYING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF THE EVER-WORSENING CONDITIONS OF THE NORTHERN NIGERIAN ECOLOGY AS SHOWN IN MY SELECTED SPECIAL REPORTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE ECOLOGY OF NORTHERN NIGERIA, 1991- 1998

1.Imminence of Ecological Apocalypse The Guardian on Sunday, 29/11/1992 (This Special Investigation of mine did not only generate international outcry, but won me the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence as the Reporter of the Year, 1992);

• The Forgotten People of the Savanna (A personal eye-witness account on the plight of the Fulani Bororos. Date of Publication as above;

• Advancing Desertification’s Fires Raze Ecology of Northern Nigerian Communities The Guardian (Daily) 26/04/1998;

• Herdsmen Farewell Symphony For Nigeria, The Guardian, 26/04/1998;

• Mega Dams, Massive Irrigation Projects Threaten Traditional Agriculture in Northern Nigeria;

• Requiem For the Drying Rivers;

• Living on the Threshold of Disaster The Guardian on Sunday, 28/06/1992;

• Environmental Degradation Blamed on Population Pressure The Punch 10/04/1996;

• Fluty Songs of Nightingale The Guardian on Sunday, 24/03/1991;

• African Crowned Cranes Face Extinction The Guardian on Sunday, 12/04/1992;

• Rufus Owl in Hunter’s Belly The Punch 10/04/1996;

• Swallows Chosen as Target Species for Euring Project The Punch 03/07/1996;

• Chirping For Conservation The Independent Weekly 10/07/1993;

• Italian Wildlife Institute Commits N.318 Million to Swallow Survey in Nigeria The Punch 13/03/1996;

• Ringers Call for Swallow Conservation The Punch 10/07/1996;

• Last Chimps for the Highest Bidder The Punch November 8, 1995;

• Gashaka Chimps Live in Safe Haven The Punch May 22, 1996;

• NCF call for a Re-appraisal of Kafin Zakin Dam Project Independent Weekly 25 April-1 May 1993;

• Adam-Hollis Report Faults Water Resources Planning in Nigeria The Punch July 19, 1994;

• The Challenge of Keeping Nigeria’s Wetland Wet The Punch July 12, 1994;

• The Nigerian Environment: From Rio Onward The Punch June 5, 1996;

• Population Growth, Commercialization Dwindle Savanna Resources The Punch December 6, 1995;

• Save the Bororos, Save Nigeria’s livestock, an opinion article in both the Punch and The Daily Times, July 10, 2000.

• Coal Goes up   Guardian on Sunday, September 20, 1992;

• Dust Bowl: Desertification, A Special Report and Analysis on the ecology of the Northern States of Nigeria, published in the NCF’s Tortoise Magazine, in my capacity then as Editorial Consultant/Researcher with the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, 1995;

INTERVIEWS WITH PROMINENT INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS ABOUT THE STATE OF THE NIGERIAN ENVIRONMENT

• A.P. Leventis Speaks on Major Environmental Issues The Guardian on Sunday, October 18, 19992. “AP” as he is fondly called by all his admirers is a Trustee of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation. Another worthy mentor of mine, his kind advice, support and insight were very useful to all my environmental investigations in and around Nigeria;
• NCF: The Twelve years of Conserving Nigeria’s Wildlife – An interview with Chief S.L. Edu, Founder/President of Nigeria’s premier environmental NGO, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) at his residence on Victoria Island, The Punch, February 12, 1994.
• Phil Hall: Helping Nigeria’s Wildlife The Independent Weekly 4-10 April, 1993.

A CALL TO REFLECT

When the wicked are in authority a nation wars, wails with loud lamentations and mourn profusely.

And the Spirit of the Lords says: Son of Man: “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land,” 2 Chronicle 7:14.

SHEATHE YOUR SWORD AND UNLOAD YOUR AK-47 AND MOABs AS WE WAR NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD…NOW IS THE TIME FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE AGAINST PRICIPALITIES AND POWERS, RULERS OF DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES, AT THE BIG RUGA (THE PRESIDENCY), TERRITORIAL SPIRITS AND TERRITORIAL POWERS, SPIRITS OF CONFLICTS AND OF WARS, ESPECIALLY FROM THE EAST THAT NOW RULE OUR NIGERIA, (EPHESIANS 6:12).

OUR BATTLE CRY USING THE BOOK OF ESTHER

THREE-DAY FASTING AND PRAYER BY ALL NIGERIANS, INCLUDING BABES FOR GOD TO GET RID OF KHALIFA SHEIKH JIHADI MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND SHEIKH ABDULRAMAN BIN OSINBAJO, EL-RUGARIUM. ALL NIGERIANS MUST MEDITATE ON THE BOOK OF ESTTHER, COVER TO COVER, PAGE TO PAGE AND DO LIKEWISE.

To be continued

God bless our Nigeria.

Johnny Boy

ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM.

 

** *The Voice of One crying in the Diaspora…proudly leading the NATIONALISTS UNITY MOVEMENT OF NIGERIA (NUMON).

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Odey Aduma was formerly Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria; Southern Coordinator and the Public Affairs Manager of President Muhammadu Buhari's pastoralists NGO - THE PASTORAL RESOLVE; Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc; member, National Committee for the Nigerian Youth Festival, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; member, core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit's Chairman for two of its sub-committees - Publicity and Exhibition, 1998; member of the Administrative Panel of Inquiry set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of endangered species of wild fauna and flora into and out of Nigeria, 2003.

He was the Chairman, Planning Committee of the General Murtala Muhammed Memorial Lecture for two consecutive years, 2001 and 2002 before it attained a Foundation status in 2002, having first been upgraded to that status in 2001.

General Murtala Muhammed was one of Nigeria's former Heads of State and was killed in the abortive coup led by the then Colonel Buka Suka Dimka on February 13, 1976.

That same capacity saw Mr Aduma delivering huge successes during the Daily Times of Nigeria's 75th Anniversary (in which he raked in N6, 000, 000 into the coffers of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc) and also, playing a similar role in a similar capacity during Dr Isma'il Babatunde Jose's 75th Birth Day. Dr Jose, doyen of Nigerian journalism was Mr Aduma's personal mentor. That relationship was so close and solid such that whilst Aduma was leaving the shores of Nigeria for Britain in 2003, Dr Jose gave him N10, 000.00.

In 1992, Mr Aduma's contributions to journalism was recognised with the awards of the Nigeria Media Merit Award as the Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence as the Reporter of the Year, and the British Chevening Scholarship, which saw him studying International Journalism with Specialism in Environment at City, University of London in 2003-2004.

Aduma is the author of the inspirational best-seller, THE DIAMONDS ARE HERE and the founder of Vigilance, the World's Leading Security Magazine and Scorpion News Corp, in addition to founding the Nationalists Unity Movement of Nigeria (NUMON).

Mr. Aduma who is currently based in the United Kingdom is also, involved in professional mentoring at Post Graduate level on the City, University of London’s Post Graduate Professional Mentoring Strand.