The Fox and the Cock In Contemporary Nigeria, By Babafemi A. Badejo
Actually, the foxy southern Nigeria has more unrealised power.
The cock has inadvertently shown the fox it lacks the power the fox attributed to it. Unlike the case in my childhood story, the south needs not do the extreme, but only use this realisation to fortify and strengthen its comparative advantages. This being the case, the erstwhile conception of powerlessness should lead to more protection for farmers all over Nigeria.
The space between the two buildings within a compound in which I grew up as a child in Ijebu-Ode was our play area. It was for football and running around during the day, and a knowledge sharing spot in the evening. It was where we learnt critical thinking through Yoruba stories and proverbs. Without knowing it, as children, we were learning Yoruba philosophy and worldview in a play mode. Out of interest, an older man would share different stories. His stories were more exciting because
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Fulani herdsmen grazing along Akure/Ilesha Expressway.
That public discourse for sometime now has been dominated by our respective view of the place of the cow in the polity is proof that the cow is poised to take its “rightful” place in the Nigerian estate. The cow is not content with its backyard place as the controversial or disputed fifth estate of the realm. As we have failed or refused to accord it its rightful due, the cow, full of wiles and fury, has willy-nilly forced itself into our consciousness. It is contesting the place of the first estate of the realm. It is however, happily assisted by the occupiers of the position it feverishly covets.
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It is interesting that 46 years after General Yakubu Jack Gowon was toppled as our military Head of State, Nigeria still retains the hope of the Black Race as the first Black power. No country is richer than us in terms of natural and human resources. No one has the fortune of having two of Africa’s mightiest rivers, the Niger and Benue, traverse through its estate. Sudan may be larger, the Democratic Republic of Congo may have more natural resources, Angola may have more oil deposit, but no country combines the sheer size, the pulsating energy and the riotous recklessness of Nigeria. Now we may even be careless enough to go to war over cattle!
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The Catholic Archbishop of Ibadan, Most Reverend Gabriel Ojeleke Abegunrin, is a son of Oke-Ogun. He was born in Iwere-Ile, headquarters of Iwajowa Local Government Area of Oyo State. Abegunrin, who is the President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Ibadan EcclesiasticalProvince, spoke with newsmen after a meeting of the Bishops of the province, recently. SAM NWAOKO brings excerpts of the interview:
Your Grace, you are from Oke Ogun area of Oyo State, beleaguered by the herdsmen trouble for some time now. Before the escalation of the herdsmen crisis as we know it today, what was it like before now? What are you hearing from home in Iwere-Ile?
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