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Share Nigeria is currently in a raging war. It is a ‘war of attrition’. We are in a type of war the Yoruba would refer to as “ija ilara”, loosely taken to mean ‘a fight based on envy’. A fight or quarrel that has ilara at its foundation hardly ends, they say. Ilara is resentment. It is spite; ilara is petty ill-will. It is envy. That is the war we have been pushed into by the various shenanigans repeatedly slapping the cringing faces of ordinary Nigerians. We were dragged into this current war by a dumb government. Yes, it has long been smouldering. But a deaf government which serenades in the mire created by the tenacious folly of its blind followership, stoked it. The manipulation of the country by the political leadership is fuelling it, while the abysmally low standards of those with the reins of power have been fanning its destructive embers. ....
Share CYPRIAN Ekwensi’s fictional prose, Burning Grass, vividly x-rays the kings of the jungle. I am using the ‘Fulani’ here as the approximation of Nigeria’s far north – because he is the consequential being there. And, I think anyone who fights him or wants to fight him or is being fought by him should read the history of his assumed ancestors, the Hyksos (Shepherd Kings) of Egypt, and then read Ekwensi. The Burning Grass is an evocative exhibition of what disease and deceit, drought and decay and death do to shape the worldview of those who answer Nigeria. It is, more importantly, a character portrait of Nigeria’s owners of power. One of the major characters in that Ekwensi story boasts: “We are Fulanis, the sons of Dan Fodio, master magicians; we who fight like cats, who die a hundred deaths and live; we who test out manhood by the Sharro…We are men of cattle, our cattle come first and since it is our wish to take them to better pastures, all else mus ....
Concerns Grow As Northern Traders Divert Food Items To Niger, Cameroon, Others saharareporters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from saharareporters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Akinwale Aboluwade There are speculations about a hike in prices of food stuffs as Northerners traders, cattle dealers have begun to divert items to neighbouring Niger Republic and Cameroon. This came following the recent crisis that left many Yoruba and Hausa casualties in the trail of the clash at Shasha Market in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Unconfirmed report has it that some elements have begun to block the trade routes to the South and several truckloads of food items are being prevented from being transported. A report indicated that trucks carrying food items down South from the north were on Friday stopped by some northerners from entering Kwara State and the South-West. A video clip showing the illegal stoppage of trucks carrying food items from the North down South at Jebba village in Niger State by some northern youths went viral on social media. ....
Share FOODSTUFF and cattle dealers across the Northern part of the country have started diverting their goods and all consumables to the neigbouring countries of Niger Republic and Cameroon. They have also begun blocking trade routes to the South by stopping food item-laden trucks from going south. Truckloads of food items from the northern part of the country were on Friday stopped by northerners from entering Kwara State and neighbouring states in the South West. A video clip showing the illegal stoppage of trucks carrying food items from the North to the South at a Jebba village in Niger State by some northern youths circulated on social media on Friday. But the Defence Headquarters clarified that following the tension generated by the incident, joint troops comprising the military and other security agencies were deployed to clear the Jebba-Kaduna Road and they had since restored normalcy in the general area. ....