President Bola Tinubu’s former spokesman in the southeast Dr. Josef Onoh has commended the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi for keeping politics aside to place the greater interest of Nigerians through his support, constructive criticism and advise on the President’s reversal of the automatic withdrawal of 40 percent from the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Federal universities.
Tinubu on Friday, during the 75th Founders day celebration of the University of Ibadan, announced the reversal of the automatic deduction of 40 percent from the federal universities IGR which he said was ill-timed at a time that the universities are financially choked.
Obi immediately reacted to President Tinubu’s reversal of the policy, commending the presidential order and saying the 40 percent IGR underlines a lack of attention to the abuse of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TetFund).
Extolling Obi’s critique, Onoh said that unlike the other opposition members that criticize and antagonize the federal government even when it does something positive, Obi’s action has demonstrated true sportsmanship, exposing his value for Nigeria beyond mere politics and commend the LP presidential candidate for the immense applause he gave to the Tinubu administration.
Onoh assured Obi that the Tinubu-led administration will not take for granted his recommendations and, noting that Obi’s commendation will encourage other well- meaning Nigerians to come together to perceive government as a collective pursuit other than as an individual entity.
He stated that what His Excellency, Mr. Peter Obi has done was a testament to the passion he has for Nigeria in moving it forward for the collective benefit of all Nigerians, adding that the state of education in Nigeria has been a major concern of all for decades.
Onoh said: “Nigeria as a third world country despite being the most populous country in Africa and having the largest economy has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 59 percent of the adult population able to read and write. President Tinubu during the campaign made education as one of the priorities in his manifesto.
“He was aware of many challenges facing higher education in Nigeria, from inadequate funding, corruption, inadequate infrastructural facilities, shortage of academic staff, strike actions, Brain-drain, poor research, weak administrators and insecurity.
“The President’s directive is an affirmation of his commitment to Nigerians towards building a better society and His Excellency Peter Obi’s commendation of Mr. President’s directive isn’t just taken as a political statement, rather it’s a strong motivational words of encouragement and commitment to Nigerians and I assure him that his support to the greater good of Nigerians isn’t taken for granted by the Tinubu led administration.
“I urge more Nigerians to emulate his actions and realise that irrespective of our political differences, Nigeria belongs to us all and together we will definitely renew hope and lay a better foundation for the future. This administration will work towards achieving greater access to university education in Nigeria, and will also focus on curbing financial waste in the Nigerian University System (applying the policy of consolidation to its letter).
“Downsizing the number of support staff in Nigerian University System; retraining of Nigerian universities’ academic staff to embrace ICT/ e – learning; and encouraging all universities in Nigeria to establish distance learning centres to provide more opportunities for all to have access to university education; and revision of education trust fund support for the production of books and journals in the Nigerian tertiary institutions; production of online materials for distance learning centers that would serve the greater populace desiring university education in our country.
“Once again I applaud Peter Obi for his positive commitment and recommendations towards advancement of education in Nigeria and let him be assured that with his support and that of all well-meaning Nigerians irrespective of political differences and benefits, we all support our government towards building a better nation. Be assured that it will inspire this administration to aspire to the benefit of us all.”
We’ll see in court if illegality is not reversed–SERAP
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has kicked against the suspension of the Chief Judge of Osun State, Justice Oyebola Ojo by Governor Ademola Adeleke.
The Nation recalled that the Osun State House of Assembly on Thursday recommended suspension of the CJ after which Adeleke approved the recommendation and directed that Justice Yinka Afolabi be sworn in to acting capacity.
However, the NBA through its National Secretary, Publicity Secretary, Akorede Lawal in a statement, yesterday morning, said it would not recognize anyone as Acting CJ.
The association described the action of the state government as illegal, breach of rule of law and assault against the judiciary coming from a democratically elected governor.
He noted that “The action of the State Government is an abuse of the rule of law and a desecration of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended).
The statement reads: “In very vivid terms, the actions of Governor Adeleke and the Osun State House of Assembly are unwarranted assault on the Judiciary and aimed at intimidation.
“The NBA wishes to categorically state that the provisions of the 1999 Constitution are not ambiguous as to the way and manner a Chief Judge of a State could be removed from office. Certainly, a State House of Assembly resolution for a Chief Judge to “step aside” is unknown to the law of our land.
“Furthermore, the law has since been settled in Nganjiwa v FRN (2017) LPELR-43391 (CA) that any misconduct attached to the office and functions of a judicial officer must first be reported to and determined by the National Judicial Council (NJC).
“Specifically, the Supreme Court in Elelu-Habeeb & Anor v AG Federation & Ors (2012) 12 NWLR (Pt 1318) 423 has clearly stated that the Chief Judge of a State cannot be removed under any guise including the infamous “step aside style” by the Osun State Government without recourse to the NJC.
“The NBA is further worried and troubled that in going about its unlawful endeavour, the Osun State Government chose to ignore the lawful order of interim injunction granted by the National Industrial Court sitting in Ibadan, which restrained the Governor of Osun State from interfering with the office of the Chief Judge of Osun State.
“This is untoward, coming from a democratically elected state government. All decisions of court must be obeyed and complied with until they are set aside by a superior court of competent jurisdiction. The NBA’s position is anchored on the constitutional doctrine of separation of power and the independence of the judiciary.
“The tenure of a judicial officer cannot and should not be subject to the mood of politicians. To this extent, the NBA and its members shall not recognise Hon. Justice Olayinka Afolabi as the Acting Chief Judge of Osun State, because the provisions of the law must be complied with strictly, in the removal of, and/or appointment of the Chief Judge of Osun State.
“The NBA shall take all necessary steps to ensure this impunity and brazen abuse of office does not stand!” He ended.
However, the state government on Friday denied the claims that Justice Ojo was suspended by Governor Adeleke.
The Nation also gathered that Adeleke had earlier directed his deputy, Kola Adewusi, to swear in Justice Yinka Afolabi in acting capacity at the Exco’s Lounge, Governor’s office by 10 am yesterday.
Findings by The Nation revealed that the swearing in ceremony ordered by Adeleke could not hold due to procedural hiccups encountered by the executive arm.
The Commissioner of Information and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, confirmed Friday that the swearing in ceremony for the acting CJ could not be held.
He said the state government was waiting for the decision of the National Judicial Council (NJC) after the body was notified of the suspension of the CJ.
Alimi said: “The deputy governor just returned from Abuja this evening. He was directed to inform the NJC of the resolution of the Assembly on the development. A letter has been sent to NJC, we are waiting for the directive of NJC before further action.
“The swearing-in could not hold. There is a vacuum in the third arm of government because the woman has been asked to step aside. But notwithstanding the vacuum, the NJC has been notified. If there is any vacuum, it is because of NJC.”
Reacting to the development, the coalition of civil society groups in Osun State under the aegis of The Osun Masterminds, through its Executive Director, Prof. Wasiu Oyedokun-Alli, kicked against the removal of CJ, warning that Justice Yinka Afolabi must not avail himself for swearing in to denigrate the judicial institution.
We’ll see in court if illegality is not reversed–SERAP
Reacting, the Socio – Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened to sue the Osun State governor if the suspension is not reversed.
SERAP in a post on its official “X” handle, @SERAPNigeria, said: “Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke must immediately reverse his apparently unlawful removal of Adepele Ojo as the Chief Judge of Osun State. This vicious cycle of authoritarian attacks on the rule of law must stop. We’ll see in court if this illegality is not reversed.“
Ganduje said that the NNPP’s desperation to have a governor in Kano State was its greatest undoing as it gave ticket to the sacked governor without noticing that INEC had closed accepting nomination forms.
The immediate past Kano State governor said they (APC) adequately exploited the development in their case and came out victorious.
Ganduje made the revelation while addressing some party supporters yesterday.
His words: “They were in PDP and when the crisis heated up and they were punched repeatedly they left the party and started groping for a platform. Unfortunately, they ran into a political party symbolizing fruits. They were given tickets because their leader was daydreaming; their leader was ambitious to be the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but he was frightened.
“And because they desperately wanted a governor in Kano State, the party gave them a ticket to contest. But they made a serious blunder because when they joined the party, INEC had closed submission of nomination forms. But they were blind and uneducated. They went into the ring without making careful observation of this.
“They did not know that we laid in wait. We took the file, submitted it to Dr Nasiru Yusuf Gwuna and told him to hold it tight. When we filed a petition at the Kano governorship election tribunal, we told the court that they were not fielded by the party. We told the court that when INEC closed accepting names of candidates, they did not join the party,”
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Friday, nullified the election of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State.
The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that Governor Yusuf was not a valid candidate in the gubernatorial election held in the state on March 18.
It maintained that evidence that was adduced by the parties established that Governor Yusuf was not a member of the NNPP, at the time the election was held.
Basking on the euphoria of last Friday’s victory at the Appeal Court, Kano State gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, yesterday announced his mission. He said “our mission is growth and development through improvement of the living standard of residents and citizens of Kano State.”
Gawuna was deputy governor under former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, who is now the national chairman of the APC.
Praising God for his victory at the Court of Appeal on Friday, Gawuna said the court only affirmed the truth about the gubernatorial contest between him and Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf who has been sacked by the appellate court.
He said: “I wish to appreciate the court of appeal for its verdict which upheld our victory at the election petition tribunal court.
“The affirmation of the truth by the Appeal Court will surely strengthen democracy.
“I want to use the opportunity to commend the judges of both the election tribunal and the court of appeal for standing by the truth to ensure that justice prevailed.
“Both judgements have reaffirmed that the judiciary is the last hope of the common man.
“This is a victory for all the residents and citizens of the state, therefore I am seeking the support of everyone irrespective of party affiliation to join hands with me and my running-mate Alh.Murtala Sule Garo in the advancement of Kano.
“I have to thank our amiable leader, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr.Abdullahi Umar Ganduje,the Deputy Senate President Sen.Barau Jibrin and the two ministers from Kano State for their support.
“My appreciation also goes to the hardworking State APC Chairman Alh.Abdullahi Abbas, Party Executives, Members of the National and State Assemblies, Local Government Chairmen and Party stalwarts from ward to state level.
“I wish to commend all the Ulamahs, Business Community,Youths and Women Groups for their solidarity and prayers.
“Our mission is growth and development through improvement of the living standard of the residents and citizens of Kano State.
“I am calling on the residents and citizens of the State to remain calm and continue to be law abiding.”
Reacting to the judgement, the sacked governor of Kano State, Engr Abba Kabir Yusuf, yesterday announced his intention to appeal against Friday’s nullification of his election by the Court of Appeal at the Supreme Court.
He said he and his party -the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) would regain his election at the apex court.
“We are optimistic that the Supreme Court will reaffirm our mandate given by the people of Kano State,’’ he said in a statement signed by his media aide, Bature Dawakin-Tofa.
The sacked governor said: “I hereby inform the people of Kano State and well-meaning Nigerians that based on consensus of our stakeholders, we have instructed our lawyers to appeal against the judgment at the Supreme Court.
“We are optimistic that the Supreme Court will set aside these miscarriages of justice by the Election Petition Tribunal and the Appeal Court.
“We are also optimistic that the Supreme Court will reaffirm our mandate given by the people of Kano State.”
He called on the people of Kano to go about their legitimate businesses as the government had taken necessary measures to ensure the security of their lives and properties as a cardinal responsibility.
Yusuf described his loss at the Court of Appeal as a temporary setback, assuring that “the temporary setback would not deter my administration from its commitment to continue with laudable projects and programmes to restore the lost glory of the state.”
The sacked governor also promised to roll out more initiatives to deliver dividends of democracy to the people of Kano State.
Speaking in the same vein, the founder of the NNPP, Dr Boniface Aniebonam, described the Appeal Court ruling as a rude shock to the party.
He said that only the party (NNPP) could determine who its members are and not the court.
“Again, it was a rude shock to me hearing the verdict of the Appeal Court in Abuja against the governor of Kano State, Abba Yusuf of NNPP.
“I do know that it is only the NNPP and its members that can determine who is a party member.
“I also know that a party and its members can bring a person into the party and grant such a person a waiver to go into an election and represent the party in an election.
“I also know and believe that only someone who contested a nomination under the NNPP can challenge the party’s membership in an election.
“To the contrary, no other person has the right to raise an objection,” Aniebonam said in a statement .
He, however, said that the NNPP still believed that justice would not only be done but seen to have been done.
Aniebonam further said “Our hope is alive ahead of the Supreme Court judgment in due time.
“I hereby encourage all members of our great party, and indeed the indigenes of Kano in particular, to keep faith in the final decision of God under these avoidable circumstances.”
APC using clandestine moves to turn Nigeria into a one party state, says NNPP
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of using clandestine moves to annihilate other political parties and drag the country into a one party system.
Speaking at a news conference in Abuja yesterday, Acting National Chairman of the NNPP, Alhaji Kawu Ali said the APC must immediately halt its moves to truncate democracy in the country and turn the country into a one party state.
Ali said the international community must also take steps to support the country to deepen multi-party democracy and stop the APC from turning Nigeria into a one –party state.
He described the Appeal Court judgement as a convoluted judgment, saying “we are gathered here today to convey our outright rejection of and express our dismay at the ruling of the Court of Appeal in respect of the only elected governor on the platform of our dear party, the New Nigeria peoples Party NNPP.
“To say the least, we are shocked at the miscarriage of justice delivered on Friday 17th November, 2023 on the Governorship Election Petition of Kano State.
“You would recall that the candidate of our party, in the March 2023 governorship election in Kano State, Alhaji Abba Kabir was overwhelmingly elected by the good people of Kano State with a whopping votes of 1,019,602 to defeat the APC candidate who came a distant second. The margin between Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and the APC candidate was around 130,000 votes.
“You may also recall that the candidate of the APC conceded defeat and congratulated Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf immediately. Surprisingly, after the issuance of Certificate of Return by INEC, the APC filed a bogus petition before the election tribunal which its own candidate refused to join.
“In spite of overwhelming evidence presented to the tribunal by our team of lawyers, the tribunal passed one of the most ridiculous judgments in the history of election jurisprudence in Nigeria and unjustly declared the APC candidate, who never joined the petition as the winner of the election.
“Believing in the credibility of the judiciary and its ability to correct any error of judgment by the lower court, our party approached the Court of Appeal and prayed the appellate court to set aside the unjust ruling of the lower court.
“To our greatest shock and consternation, the Court of Appeal on Friday 17th November, 2023 delivered a convoluted judgment that was anchored around their erroneous belief that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf was not a member of the NNPP.
“To claim that His Excellency Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf was not a member of the NNPP at the time of the 2023 general election, is to say the least, the worst of mischief anybody can come up with. For the avoidance doubt, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf was, and is still a card carrying bonafide member of the NNPP.
“Any claim to the contrary is only in the figment of the imagination of the mischief –makers. How could he have contested the election when the INEC portal for the submission of Candidates Nomination and Expression of Interest Forms could not have accepted any form that was not uploaded together with the copy of the NNPP Membership Card of the nominee?
“For our party, and we are sure for INEC as well, the issue of Membership of Candidate is a non-issue since the system of nomination is designed by INEC in such a way that only registered members can be nominated and uploaded onto the portal.
“It is therefore unbelievable that the Appeal Court would refuse to look at the merit of our party’s appeal and cling to the erroneous issue of membership that has already been settled severally by both the Appeal and Supreme Courts.
“We are therefore informing all members of the NNPP and indeed all Nigerians that our party has already briefed our lawyers to appeal this injustice at the Supreme Court.
“While we believe that the Supreme Court will correct the errors of the tribunal and the Appeal Court and restore the mandate of the good people of Kano State by re-affirming Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf as the duly elected Governor of Kano State, we are not unmindful of the political desperation of the APC leaders in Kano State, who were roundly rejected at the polls and who are now scampering to hijack power at all cost through the chambers of the Court as they did in 2019.
“We are therefore calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to intervene in the Kano situation as it is increasingly becoming the test case for the survival of democracy in Nigeria and the credibility of the judicial system.
“The ruling party must not be allowed to be using the chambers of the Courts to annihilate and incinerate opposition parties.
“We pray that the Judiciary would live up to its calling as the temple of justice and the last hope of the common man. So far members of the NNPP Nationwide and the people of Kano State are yet to get justice from the Judiciary.
“We are therefore calling on the ruling party to save democracy in Nigeria by halting their clandestine moves to annihilate all other political parties and drag the country into a one party system.
“We are calling on the international community to support our country to deepen multi-party democracy and stop the APC from turning the country into a one –party state.”
Merger talks: Shendam not speaking for NNPP – Nat’l chairman
The National leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) says Yabuku Shendam is not its National Publicity Secretary, and so, cannot speak for the party including rumoured merger plan with other political parties.
The NNPP National Chairman, Dr Major Agbo, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, said that Alhaji Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq, remained the National Publicity Secretary of the NNPP.
“We insist he is not a card carrying member of our party but probably the spokesman of Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso’s kwankwasiya group,” Agbo said.
The chairman was reacting to recent statements by Shendam on the reported call by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the PDP for a merger among opposition parties to wrestle power from the APC in 2027.
He said that Shendam was quoted as saying “the NNPP could only accept the proposal if Atiku would support Kwankwaso, to wrest power from the APC in 2027”.
Agbo described Shendam as speaking for Kwankwaso whom he said, had long been expelled from the party by the NNPP Board of Trustees (BoT).
“The BoT in its meeting on Aug. 28, had expelled Kwankwaso and the decision was ratified by the National Convention of Aug. 29 in Lagos due to anti party activities and other serious infractions.
“Kwankwaso is no longer a member of our party, cannot be its presidential candidate in 2027 and Shendam needs to know this,” he said.
Agbo said the party was not, however, averse to any proposition that could bring true dividends of democracy to ordinary Nigerians“Every Nigerian is interested in having a true democracy that is all inclusive, what we have now is far away from democracy.
“So, if there is a proposition by opposition elements to ensure that democracy is installed, why not?.
“However, that proposition must be given a good thought, considered by the founder and other founding members of our party,” he said.
He said that such a proposition must also be considered by the National Working Committee led by him, and not by Kwankwaso and his kwankwassiya group.
Agbo added: “Anything that will make Nigerians witness democracy is accepted but our certificate is independent.
“Our certificate cannot be subsumed into any other as being imagined by Kwankwaso, Buba Galadima, Shendam and their kwankwassiya group who are no longer members of our party.”
Minister says step aimed at decongesting Custodial centres
The Federal Government made a bold step to decongest the Custodial Centres. Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, yesterday, launched the release of 4,068 inmates.
The inmates are those serving varied terms of imprisonment with an option of fine or compensation.
The launch took place at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje, Abuja.
Explaining the motive behind the initiative, he decried the overpopulation of the custodial facilities across the country.
He said the facilities with the installed capacity to accommodate a little above 50,000, currently hold approximately 80,804 inmates.
According to him, the overpopulation was overstretching the facilities, hence the need for the Federal Government’s strategic intervention through his ministry.
This release, targeting inmates with fines and/or compensations not exceeding N1 million naira, extends a lifeline primarily to indigents unable to settle their dues, allowing them a second chance at freedom.
Tunji-Ojo said: “Philanthropic individuals, groups, and corporate bodies rallied together, raising a total of N585 million for this noble cause.
“Moreover, it’s not just about freeing these individuals but empowering them for a successful reintegration into society. The inmates received comprehensive training covering practical skills, civic duties, and strategies to prevent recidivism, ensuring a more promising future upon their return to their communities.”
Tunji-Ojo highlighted the government’s commitment to transforming custodial and non-custodial facilities to align with international human rights standards and effective correctional practices, echoing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s vision of Renewed Hope.
Commending the Nigerian Correctional Service for their dedication to ensuring humane custody and contributing to national security, the minister assured continued support for staff and inmates’ welfare, emphasizing the importance of a collective effort in the rehabilitation and reformation process.
He cautioned Nigerians against stigmatising the freed inmates, acknowledging that acceptance plays a pivotal role in preventing them from recommitting offences.
Tunji-Ojo said: “As we ceremoniously flagged off the release of these 4,068 inmates, I implored them to embrace this second chance, desist from criminal activities, and strive to become positive ambassadors contributing to the nation’s progress under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“The initiative signifies a crucial step towards creating a more humane and rehabilitative correctional system in Nigeria while emphasizing the importance of community support in reintegrating ex-offenders”.
Gaza, you Black woman! Gaza, you trash! Gaza you bitch! Gaza, you daughter of a huge whore, just like your mother Gaza!”- Lior Narkis.
The popular Israeli singer Lior Narkis sang these disturbing and deeply insulting words to a wild and ecstatic crowd of dancing and cheering Israeli soldiers who received them with wild and loud expressions of joy, adulation, praise and adoration as he went on a tour of numerous Isreali military camps whilst Gaza was being bombed and a few days before they began their ground offensive.
I am constrained to ask the American Jew, Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro), who is the leading Zionist, pro-Israeli columnist, author and commentator in the United States of America and a man who has enormous influence throughout the world given the fact that millions of people read his write-ups, value his opinion and follow him on both the social and traditional media, the following question: is this the sort of rhetoric and sentiment and the type of people that you and your Zionist collaborators expect the civilised world to offer their unquestioning support and applaud?
As someone rightly asked, why is this vile and racist singer touring IDF bases rather than facing charges for hate crime?
The answer is simple: he reflects the mindset and thinking of the Zionists and their views, not just about the Palestinians and the Arabs, but also about people of colour.
His songs and views are SICKENING and unacceptable and my Christian faith compels me to resist it and those that encourage and applaud it with every fiber of my being.
I wonder whether you, as the greatest defender and apologist of Israeli genocide and the wholesale slaughter of Palestinian children in America today, has anything to say about this or can muster the courage and moral gravitas to condemn it?
Sadly, judging from your consistently obstinate, implicitly racist, intellectually bankrupt, logically flawed, constantly shallow and habitually bigoted contributions in your inglorious column in the American Daily Wire and your handle on X, I doubt it very much.
Permit me to share another relevant contribution from no less a figure than Brazilian President Lula Da Silva for your consideration as well. He said,
“If Hamas committed acts of terrorism when it did what it did, the State of Israel is also committing acts of terrorism. I have never heard of children being the preferred victims in a war. The number of women and children who have been killed in Gaza is unheard of in any other war. They (the Israelis) are killing innocent people.”
I would suggest that you carefully ponder on these profound and deeply insightful words and take them very seriously indeed because they reflect the thinking of the entire civilised world.
Now to the point.
My dear Ben, I am sharing my concerns with you in this open letter simply because I am inclined to take you more seriously than others of your ilk due to the fact that your level of doublespeak, deceit, misinfirmation, disinfirmation, historical revisionism, mendacity and propaganda are second to none and this makes you very dangerous.
To put it mildly you are literally America’s version of Josef Goebels (Hitler’s Nazi Minister of Propaganda & Information) on steroids only your target audience is not just Nazi Germany or America but rather the entire world.
Yours is to defend the indefensible and to justify the unjustifiable.
You continue to mislead and confuse millions of people all over the world with your pro-war, pro-apartheid, ultra-conservative and ultra-Zionist essays, podcasts and social media contributions when you present falsehood as truth and truth as falsehood.
Had it not been for the fact that so many gullible and naive individuals read and listen to your every word and consider them as gospel truth I would not have bothered puttng pen to paper and writing this epistle to you.
However your constant disrespect and contemptuous disdain for the basic facts and plain truth when it comes to the abominable atrocities that are being perpetuated in Gaza by the Israeli Government and Armed Forces coupled with your constant bullying, armtwisting and misplaced rage and wrath visited on anyone and everyone that does not accept or propogate your false and perfidious narrative constrains me to do so.
Before I go into the ugly events in Gaza permit me to remind you of just one example of the expression of your inherent racism and debilitating insolence.
On September 27th 2010 you posted the following on your X handle:
“Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue”.
Kindly tell me what you would call this type of rhetoric if not hateful racial stereotyping and bigoted and ignorant racism in its most vulgar, crass, primitive and crude form?
Your racial slurs against Arabs remind me of the the language employed by the Afrikaans-speaking White Boers of apartheid South Africa who regarded black South Africans and black people generally as nothing but “sub-human, low born field hands and slaves” and who described them in their apartheid constitution as nothing but the Biblical “hewers of the wood and drawers of the water”.
Again your words remind me of those of the infamous Dutchman, navigator and sailor Jan Van Reebeck, who was one of the earliest Europeans to arrive in South Africa and who upon landing on the beaches of the South African Cape in 1652 referred to our African brothers and sisters as “stinking black dogs”.
The truth is that those that speak and think like you are worst than the German Nazi’s who subjected your forefathers to such horrendous treatment and sought to wipe them out.
Quite apart from that, given your racist disposition, I suspect strongly that you were conceived, born, bred and raised in the same crap and open sewage that you have accused the Arabs of living in.
Now to Gaza.
Permit me to begin with the graphic and moving words of His Excellency Abdullah Abu Sawesh, who is the High Commissioner for the State of Palestine to my country Nigeria.
In a press statement which was released earlier this week he wrote, inter alia, the following:
“The unconditional, unshakeable political, military and media support that the Israeli occupation is receiving from western countries has perpetrated the current textbook genocide and the continuance of the Palestinian NAKBA that started 1948. By continuing airing and screening the occupier’s propaganda and picking the side of the executioners, the main western media outlets are completely complicit in the current textbook genocide. On the 40th day of this frenzy textbook genocide all the news that still came from the occupied Palestinian territories and in particular from Gaza are heartbreaking. As unfortunate as it is, I have no other choice except to start with the bloody statistical figures. With the deepest sorrow the death toll among the Palestinian civilians has exceeded twelve thousand (12,000) and the majority of them are children and women. Out of more than two thousand still missing, there has been groaning still coming from under the rubble which means that some are still breathing and fighting for their lives. The casualty toll in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has also climbed up as Israeli occupying forces and settlers ratchet up their violence on Palestinian civilians, now 186 killed, including 46 children, and 2,400 injured. Hundreds of bodies of Palestinian victims are decomposing in the courtyard of Al-Shifa Hospital, on the streets and under the rubble and there is no opportunity to bury them with the respect they deserve. More than 750 journalists from dozens of news organizations signed an open letter, condemning Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza and criticizing the Western media coverage of the aggression against the Strip. The letter, amongst many other things, said newsrooms are “accountable for dehumanising rhetoric that has served to justify ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”
Can anyone hear such words and not shed a secret tear for the people of Palestine?
Can we not acknowledge and recognise the fact that there is indeed a grand plan and not so hidden agenda to externinate them and wipe them off the face of the earth?
This is not about fighting Hamas or seeking the terrorists out for destruction: this is about killing or displacing every single Palestinian man, woman and child and turning their entire race into a distant and fading memory.
What the white Americans of the old “wild west” did to the native “red” Indians of the mid western and western prairies is precisely what the Jews, the Zionists and the State of Israel wish to do to the Palestinian people.
They wish to break them, kill them, displace them, destroy them and herd those that are left alive into barren reservation camps in the Sinai desert where they will be treated like worthless slaves and beggars and turned into feeble minded and pitiful drug addicts and alcoholics.
May God forbid that this should ever happen.
Yet this is precisely what degenerate and twisted little Zionist monsters like you Ben actually pray for and crave in your lust for land, power, hegemony, expansion, domination, control, subjugation, conquest, treasure, gas and oil, plenty of which lies below the soil of Gaza and off its coast.
A few days ago you posted a picture of a hole in the ground on the same X account for your 6 million followers.
You claimed that this hole is under a Gaza hospital & you alleged that it leads to a web of military tunnels below the hospital.
As usual you have provided no evidence to substantiate your allegation or the veracity of your assertion but the truth is that such “trivial” matters like the provision of credible evidence means little or nothing to you.
You expect us to believe what you have said and regard it as truth simply because YOU said so and YOU must never be doubted, disbelieved, denied or challenged in the presentation of YOUR so-called facts.
Worse still anyone that challenges those “facts” in your twisted, warped and intellectually anaemic mind must be “antisemitic”, “an enemy of the State of Israel” and “a Jew hater”.
Such base and infantile poppycock is rarely seen in serious public discourse or intellectual debate but of course people like you always lower the bar.
The truth is that the hole whose picture you shared and passed off as a passage to a tunnel used by Hamas terrorists may well be one that simply leads to the hospital sewers or to the hospital basement.
Yet you expect us, nay command us and demand of us, to believe your assertion and categorisation that it leads to a complex network of Hamas military bases & tunnels simply because you & the Israeli Defence Force @IDF have said so.
Whatever the case, is this your justification for bombing hospitals & butchering 12,000 civilians, 6000 of whom are children in Gaza and 186 others, 46 of whom are children, in the West Bank all in 5 weeks?
Is this your rationalisation for killing or causing the death of one child in Gaza every ten minutes?
Is this your justification for turning Al Shifa hospital into a stinking and death-stenched cemetery for children and babies and a concentration camp filled with rotting and maggot-infested bodies?
Is this your reason for targetting hospitals, killing little babies in incubators by denying them oxygen and electricity and turning them into what can best be described as little mice being prepared for the slaughter?
Is this your rationalisation for slaughtering over 1/2% of the entire population of Gaza & flattening 60% of its infrastructures in that same space of time?
As Professor Norman Finklestein, the respected Jewish American scholar and author posted on X,
“it is now 24 hours since Israel invaded al-Shifa hospital. No sprawling Hamas command-and-control center. No arms caches in the tunnels. No secret passageways. No nothing except: DEAD BABIES IN INCUBATORS WITHOUT FUEL.”
Can you Ben Shapiro or your Zionist collaborators and co-conspirators legitimately dispute this?
Frankly you make me sick. You are not only a delusional & blood thirsty degenerate but you are also a psychopath who has a craving for the spilling of human blood.
Whilst the world is sickened by the heartless slaughter of Palestinian women, children & babies you, like the twisted voyeur and perverted sexual deviant that you are, sit back in your chair, bring out the popcorn & enjoy watching it every night.
You are a troubled little man who has an insatiable appetite for the spilling of children’s blood & whose secret desire is to subiect every single Arab (both Christian & Muslim) to mass murder, genocide & ethnic cleansing & wipe them all off the face of the earth.
You are worse than Hamas, ISIS, Boko Haram, Daesh, Al Shabab, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah & Al Qaeda all put together because you are not only a brutal, blood lusting, merciless beast & terrorist enabler & sympathiser that has no value for life & no interest in peace but you, like Hitler’s Nazis, also seek to rationalise your unrelenting barbarity with a pseudo-intellectual garb trying to defend & present as acceptable something that no civilised or sane individual with even the tiniest modicum of humanity can EVER accept as being normal.
Your hateful and provocative rhetoric and disgraceful & deeply insultng commentry about the Islamic & Christian faiths over the years & your unacceptable insults on the greatest, most noble, most righteous and most reverred Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) coupled with your denigrating and demeaning description of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Lord of Hosts, the Ancient of Days, the Creator of all that is, the Lord of the Universe, the El Shaddai, the Elohim, the Adonai, the Alpha and the Omega and the Resurrected Lord as “just another Jew who died for a cause” has not gone unnoticed.
You are of course entitled to your views but let me tell you frankly that if every Jew had your deplorable, warped, bigoted, racist, asinine & utterly despicable mindset & deplorable disposition about the two greatest & most popular faiths on earth the world would be filled with anti-semites & Hitler would have been celebrated as a saint & a hero even though we all regard him as one of the worse monsters & tyrants that ever lived.
You are the biggest & single most repugnant, perfiduous, malevolent, deceitful, malicious, insincere, wicked, malodrous, dangerous & intellectually dishonest voice in the Zionist camp today & you have made more enemies for the State of Israel by your vicious & unrelenting racism, your endorsement of apartheid, your blatant lies, your pathological mendacities & your inexplicable & unfathomable fabrications than any other human being on earth.
I do not agree with everything that men & women like Dominique De Villepin, Professor Norman Finklestein, David Icke, Professor Naom Chomsky, Jackson Hinkle, Mehdi Hassan, Clare Daley MEP, William Scott Ritter Jnr., Colonel Douglas Macgregor, Andrew Tate, Professor John Mearsheimer, James Corbyn MP, Julius Malema MP,
Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Oman, Professor Cornel West, the Torah Jews, Professor Isa Pantami, Antonio Gutteras, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & all the other pro-ceasefire, pro-peace voices say but every single one of them displays a level of logic, foresight, justice, equity, compassion, sensitivity & humanity that you are incapable of doing & they are better & far more enlightened than you in their rationalisations, reasoning & historical knowledge of the events in the Middle East and Palestine.
Unlike you they do not suffer from tunnel vision and they are not blinded and encumbered by their own subjectivity or delusional emotions.
Even the hitherto reticent Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, who all along had refused to criticise the genocidal excesses of Israel appears to have finally found the courage to join the ranks of these noble men and women, the forces of light and the legions of the righteous and speak up for the oppressed and suffering people of Gaza when, just a few days ago, he said the following during the course of a press conference. He said,
“I urge the Government of Israel to exercise maximum restraint. The world is watching on TV, on social media. We are hearing the testimonies of doctors, family members, survivors, kids who have lost their parents. The world is witnessing this killing of women, of children, of babies. This has to stop”.
Let us hope he goes even further and calls for a total and complete ceasefire.
Unlike you, each of these men and women are motivated by truth & guided by their consciences and the quest for justice & fairness.
You do not share these noble qualities, virtues or motivations.
You are no better than a primitive, half naked cheerleader & court jester dancing naked in the town centre and attempting to get noticed like a stale & out of fashion village idiot and lady of easy virtue that is well past her expiry date.
You are just a lost, irredeemable, unconciable soul that has no conscience, that has lost his humanity and moral compass and that is being paid and sponsored to write unadulterated rubbish by the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States of America and the State of Israel.
By all means defend Israel if that is your decision but you do not need to throw away your humanity and fully embrace depravity to do so.
Sadly that is what you have done but what the hell do you care because you sold your soul to satan years ago in return for notoriety and infamy.
Hell awaits you Ben and when you get there you can exchange notes with your soul-mates and fellow beasts like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, King Leopold 11 of Belgium, Genghis Khan, Mohammed Al Baghdadi, Idi Amin, Jeanne Bedie Bokassa, Christopher Colombus, King Herod, Pharaoh, Osama Bin Ladin, Saddam Hussein, Nebuchadnezzar, Vlad the Impaler and so many others.
You will learn the hard way that supporting the evil that is being perpetuated in Gaza today by Israel will eventually have dire consequences for the Jewish state herself and indeed the entire world.
I have always loved Israel and a part of me still does. Together with millions of others all over the world, I wept for her when she was attacked and brutally savaged by those that are worse than animals on October 7th and I not only condemned it but share the view that Hamas must be eradicated from the face of the earth.
Despite that I simply cannot bear what the Jewish state is doing in Gaza and I hate those who are cheering them on in their barbaric slaughter of innocent civilians.
Permit me to garner this contribution with a few posers.
Are we supposed to stand by Israel even when she is indulging in blind, rage-induced and vengeance- motivated genocide?
Are we supposed to join the Americans and say that Israel can do and get away with ANYTHING and not demand for a ceasefire?
Are we supposed to clap for the Israeli Minister of Heritage when he says “anyone who carries a Palestinian flag should not be allowed to live?” or when he says a “nuclear bomb should be dropped on Gaza” or when he says “Gaza’s 2.5 million people should be pushed in the desert or sent to 100 different countries as refugees at 25,000 Gazans per country?”
Is this the sort of rhetoric we are expected to espouse, endorse and support?
Is this what criminally insane, genocidal maniacs and complicit religious bigots and messianic zealots like you Ben Shapiro expect us to embrace?
Are we expected to jump with joy and applaud him when the Israeli Minister of National Security says “even those that are sharing sweets on the streets of Gaza should be targetted and slaughtered as well?”
Are we supposed to express our approval when the Minister of Defence of Israel says “what is being done to Gaza may also be done to Beirut?”
Is this wholesale espousal of barbarity, slaughter and savagery to be regarded as the new norm? Are we expected to accept and celebrate it?
Is there no more sanity in the world?
Are we supposed to accept it as the norm when the Israeli Finance Minister says “there is no such thing as a Palestinian nation, there is no such thing as Palestinian history and there is no such thing as a Palestinian language”?
Are we supposed to hop up and down with joy and express our unending adoration when a Member of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) is questioned about the fact that thousands of innocent Palestinian women and children are being killed by Israeli bombs in Gaza and his response was “there is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian” meaning that every single Palestinian, whether man, woman, child or infant, should be bombed, crushed and wiped off the face of the earth?
Where is this hateful and genocidal rhetoric coming from and why should we shy away from challenging it?
Are we cowards? Should we be filled with fear and trepidation and shy away from speaking the bitter truth about what Zionism has done to the Jewish state?
Does the Bible not tell us that “God has not given us a spirit of fear but one of power, love and sound mind”?
Does is not admonish us not to fear the one that can kill the body but “only He that can throw the soul into hell”?
Today the Jews that have taken objection to others saying “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” and that claim that such words are nothing but genocidal hate speech and an expression of a sinister and subterranean desire to wipe the State of Israel off the face of the earth are themselves saying that Gaza and the Palestinian people should be totally eradicated.
They are themselves wiping out Christian and Muslim children in Gaza and judging from what the Israeli Defence Minister is saying it may soon be Lebanon and Beirut as well.
Does this double standard make any sense? Is it just? Is it fair? Does it not make any right thinking person sick? Is it right or proper for anyone to be talking about wiping out any race in this day and age?
Are Israel, the Zionists and the Jews above the law and do they have the right to do unto others what they do not want others to do unto them?
Has Israel not taken us down the sanguine and bloody path of carnage and madness where restraint and the application of even the most basic norms of military engagement, international law and the law of war no longer apply?
Are crimes against humanity and war crimes against innocent civilians, including women and children, now acceptable forms of combat?
This may be so in Ben Shapiro’s Zionist controlled insane world but not in mine.
Today it is Gaza, tomorrow it could be your city or country. Think about that whilst you are watching the show of shame and unprecedented carnage from the comfort of your home and bedroom on CNN, Al Jazeera or the BBC.
May God have mercy on us all.
Permit me to conclude this contribution with the following.
I have written thousands of words over the last few weeks about the horrendous slaughter that the State of Israel was subjected to by a group of savage and barbaric demons in human flesh on October 7th.
The attack was unprovoked and indefensible and the carnage that it left in its wake beggars belief and was second to none.
It was undoubtedly the worst and most devastating attack on the Jewish state and the Jewish people since the holocaust and I joined millions of Nigerians and indeed people from all over the civilised world of every faith, including Muslims and Christians, in condemning it and insisting that Israel not only has the right to defend herself but also a duty to totally and completely wipe out the terrorist organisation known as Hamas.
These are all “givens” or what lawyers describe as “settled law” but what puzzles me is the fact that when some of us express our angst, disgust, opprobium and horror at the disproportionate and sickening overreaction and incontrovertible savagery and barbarity that the State of Israel is subjecting the innocent people of Gaza to in the name of fighting and crushing Hamas and the fact that we are utterly mortified by the sight of Palestinian women, children and infant babies being blown to pieces and slaughtered like sallah goats and christmas turkeys whilst in their homes, hospitals, steeets, ambulances, schools, churches and mosques and when we cry out in horror and say enough is enough and that this must stop, we are treated with disdain and contempt by the pro-Zionist and pro-Israel lobby and declared as being antisemitic, anti-Jewish and anti-Israel.
Is this not absurd?
Should the wholesale slaughter of Muslim and Christian babies and infants not attract the same level and degree of anger and horror as the wholesale butchery of Jewish and Israeli ones?
Are they not all babies before being Muslims, Christians or Jews?
Do Christian and Muslim babies, women and children not have the right to life as well and are they not worthy of being considered for protection at a time of war or should such consideration be offered to only the Jews and citizens of Israel?
Does the Holy Bible tell us that killing babies of ANY race or religion is the right thing to do?
Does the New Testament of the Word of God not specifically and clearly tell us that the violent abominations of the Old Testament such as ethnic cleansing, mass murder, genocide, racism, religious bigotry, injustice, inequity, racial and religious intolerance and the slaughter of our fellow human beings for ANY reason whatsoever is no longer acceptable and that instead we must treat one another with compassion, kindness, mercy, charity, forgiveness, patience and love?
Does it not say that we should “suffer not the children” and that we should treat women, the young, the elderly, the defenceless, the poor, the sick and the vulnerable with kindness and sensitivity?
Is it not for this specific reason and purpose that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ came and sacrificed Himself on the cross?
Did He not say that the greatest display of love is to treat our fellow human beings as we would treat ourselves and that we should be ready to sacrifice our lives for the sake of others?
Did He not say that “vengeance is mine, I will repay” and that we should “turn the other cheek” when assaulted or insulted?
Those that have overlooked these biblical admonitions and that refuse to acknowledge them or that are still stuck in the angry, violent, frightful and vengeful rhetoric of the Old Testament of the Holy Bible are truly lost.
They forget that the New Testament is not only a fulfillment of the Old but was also established to ameliorate its harshness and excesses and those that think otherwise must be reading a different Bible to mine.
The Christian that says that Jews and the State of The Israel can do no wrong simply because they are supposedly “God’s chosen people” and that it is alright for them to commit mass murder and kill babies is not only a lost and pitiful soul but also an accomplice to and enabler of genocide.
Such a person is not a real Christian but an insensitive, misguided, ignorant and deluded barbarian.
Christianity can NEVER support injustice or the murder of innocents and neither can Islam.
Why should the Jews believe they can do so under ANY circumstances and get away with it? Why should they regard themselves as being infallible and untouchable?
Should a Jew bear hatred or resentment for Christians or Muslims simply because his people have suffered persecution in the past given the fact that millions of members of both of these great
faiths have stood by Israel on several occassions, defended her and acknowledged her right to exist?
Is this not what the “two state solution” is all about?
Was that not the basis on which Camp David and the Oslo Accords were established?
Is this not enough to prove that not all Muslims are ISIS and Hamas and that not all Christians are Nazis?
Did millions of Christians and Muslims from all over the world not sacrifice their lives during WW11 fighting against the German, Italian and Japanese Nazis whose sole purpose and intention was to wipe out the Jewish race and erase them from the face of the earth?
Has humanity not paid its dues to the Jews by re-establishing the State of Israel in 1948 and displacing millions of Palestinians from their homeland just to do so?
These are pertinent and relevant questions given what Israel is doing in Gaza and given the fact that those of us that have said they have gone too far and that it must stop are now being branded and labelled as anti-Jewish by the likes of Ben Shapiro and the Prime Minister of Israel himself, Benjanin Netanyahu.
Must the barbarity and obscenity of infant and child slaughter be considered acceptable when it is perpetrated by the Jews and only condemned when unleashed on Jewish children?
Is this right and proper?
I think not.
Surely all life and all children are precious and the burchering of ANY, regardless of race or faith, MUST be condemned by ALL.
And those that think otherwise like Ben Shapiro are obviously suffering from a rare form of mental illness which needs to be exposed, challenged and contained lest they plunge the entire world into Ww111.
Just how long do they think the Muslim world particularly will sit by idly and watch members of their faith being slaughtered in this way?
Do they not know that everyone has a limit to what they can take and that if this madness does not stop there will be a terrible and irresistible reaction which Israel may not survive?
Can people like Ben Shapiro and the Jewish extremists and Zioninsts that think like him not see this coming?
Can Israel fight against the whole world bar America and survive it? Will America herself risk her survival for an Israeli state that has gone rogue, lost its mind and become a terror to the citizens of the world?
Do Christian and Muslim lives not matter too and is Jewish blood any more precious than ours?
Again are Jewish babies more important than that of the Arabs or ours?
Where is this madness coming from and why are so many egging it on in the name of political correctness and out of fear of the Jewish lobby and America?
And if the truth be told this madness, hypocrisy and double standard is driving the world to the precipice of a conflagration the likes of which have never been witnessed before.
I say this because the entire Muslim world is boiling with rage and anger.
Nothing reflects this growing anger and grave danger better than the words of the Afghan Taliban Government when they were asked why they did not attend the recently concluded summit of Arab and Muslim leaders in Riyadh Saudi Arabia last week.
Afghanistan was the only Muslim country that did not attend.
They offered an explanation for their absence by writing the following on X:
“Saudi Arabia sent us an invitation to which our Supreme Leader replied, ‘we don’t need an invitation: send us the location where Muslim armies will be gathering.”
This was indeed a chilling and sobering response if I ever saw one.
Thankfully Saudi Arabia withdrew their invitation after that but the words of the Afghan Government have eloquently and graphically depicted the rage and extreemly dangerous sentiments of the overwhelming number of Muslims in the world.
And frankly, who can blame them?
Israel needs to sheath her bloody sword and stop the carnage in Gaza and the West Bank before the more moderate Arab Governments and Muslim leaders can no longer hold the line, are swept away and the whole world is confronted with a massive and irresistible jihad in which literally millions of people on all sides of the political, religious and ethnic divide will be killed and after which the world will never be the same again.
For the record it is not just the Muslim world that is enraged. South Africa, along with a number of other countries, have not just broken diplomatic ties with Israel as a direct consequence of their barbarism in Gaza but they have also called for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Clearly the clock is ticking for the Zionists that take pleasure and pride in the slaughter of infants.
By her despicable, graphic and morbid display of savagery and her clear reflection of what can best be described as a psychopathic, murderous and barbaric disposition, the State of Israel has now become a danger to the peace and security of the world.
The world is now left with a choice about what to do with her but in my view the bottom line is best reflected by the following anecdote.
Consider this: when a lion runs mad and seeks to kill every single living thing because its cubs were attacked and killed by a rogue pride you can understand its rage but you cannot allow it to kill and decimate every single living thing in the jungle as an act of vengeance.
You must save it from its momentary madness and violent grieving rage by putting a bullet in its head before it wipes out everything that has life including itself.
That is the story of Israel and if she is not reigned in at the soonest and compelled to regain her senses that is what her fate may ultimately come to.
This is a hard and bitter truth which many do not wish to acknowledge or accept.
Permit me to end with the following points.
On 3rd of October 2022 Hilary Rodham Clinton, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Secretary of State) of the United States of America and a former presidential candidate posted the following on her X handle. She wrote,
“If the Russian leadership would rather not be accused of war crimes they should stop bombing hospitals”.
I urge Mrs. Clinton, the lady that rejoiced when Muammar Ghadaffi was brutally murdered, to refrain from her application of double standards and cowardly and complicit silence when it comes to Gaza and offer the same counsel to the Israeli Government and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
This would go a very long way indeed in helping the situation and redeeming her utterly battered and discredited image.
An Israeli-American activist, Miko Peled, offered the following insight about the mindset of the Israeli war machine. He said, “the Israeli Army’s entire purpose is terrorism”.
Given what is happening in Gaza, the West Bank and Southern Lebanon today can anyone dispute this? Is what he has said not the bitter truth?
Have the events in Gaza not proved that and provided ample evidence to substantiate Peled’s allegation?
And just in case anyone is inclined to dismiss him as being delusional or just another self-hating, liberal American Jew that does not care for Israel they should consider his antecedents and noble lineage.
His grandfather, Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
His father, General Mattiyahu Peled, fought in the war of 1948 and 1967 and later condemned the Israeli military for seizing the West Bank, Gaza, the Egyptian Sinai and the Syrian Golan Heights.
This is indeed a distinguished family of warriors and achievers. They are men of truth, courage, conscience and character, they are forthright and righteous souls and they are notable heroes who risked their lives for Israel and who never shied away from speaking the truth to her leaders when they got it wrong.
Peled is far more worthy of our attention and respect and needs to be taken far more seriously than pin size, puppet propagandists with a questionable pedigree and a thoroughly uninspiring lineage like little Ben Shapiro.
On his part Major Scot Ritter, a retired US Marine and former Military Intelligence officer offered some laudable and timely counsel and advice. He posted the following on X:
“the United States needs to bring this to an end. An immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the deployment of Turkish peacekeepers to protect the Palestinians from the IDF is a must. The Israelis simply don’t care anymore. They are a nation consumed with bloodlust”.
Ritter has hit the nail on the head. Let us hope President Joe Biden and the Zionist hawks around him will listen.
Finally President Erdoğan of Turkey issued the following warning to the Zionists and the State of Israel. He said,
“I would like to speak very bluntly. Israel is a terrorist state. They consider Hamas to be a terrorist organisation but Hamas is a political party that won the collective vote in Palestine and after they won the election you have seized and usurped their rights. Israel and the US have seized those rights. Two-thirds of the 12,000 people who have been murdered by Israel in Gaza are women and children,” he said. Israel is carrying out the most heinous attack against women and children in all of history. They [Israel] have been speaking about murdering all those people using nuclear weapons so let me call on Benjamin Netanyahu: do you have nuclear weapons or not? Explain this if you have the courage! You are threatening people with atomic bombs, nuclear bombs. It does not matter what you have, you are a goner!”
It appears that the quest to exterminate the Palestinian people will not go unchallenged and cannot be fully implemented without strong resistance and a bloody fight.
Let us hope that Ben Shapiro and his Zionist co-travellers whose intention is to rid the world of the Palestinian people are listening.
A word is enough for the wise.
Sadly despite all “listening” does not appear to be on the horizon given the fact that despite the gathering clouds, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel appears to have thrown all caution to the wind and refused to even attempt to hide his bellicose and murderous disposition and genocidal intentions.
He confirmed this two weeks ago when he said, with reference to the attack on Gaza, that the State of Israel was “waging a war against Amalek”.
The import of this utterly chilling, frightful and utterly comment is not lost on many and it is highly instructive.
For those who do not fully appreciate what he means I would suggest that they read the Old Testament of the Holy Bible which tells us that the Jews were ordered by God and therefore have a divine obligation to wipe out and exterminate every man, woman and child that is a descendant of Amalek in their quest to enter and occupy the Promise Land and establish, protect, defend and secure the State of Israel.
Amalek’s descendants were collectively referred to in the Bible as the Amalekites and today they are known as the Palestinians.
Can you put two and two together?
Do we need any more evidence about what the intentions of Israel really are?
Need I say any more?
May God deliver the people of Gaza, the Palestinian people, the Middle East and the entire world from evil and bloodthirsty men, whether they be the animals and terrorists of Hamas, the barbaric hordes of ISIS and Islamic Jihad, the butchers and child killers of the Israeli Defence Force or the fanatical zealots and extremist disciples of the divisive, racist and cancerous philosophy and plague known as Zionism.
•Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, the Sadaukin Shinkafi and the Wakilin Doka Potiskum, is a lawyer, a former Minister of Aviation and a former Minister of Culture and Tourism
A bloody clash has occurred in Borno State between Boko Haram fighters and those of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), claiming scores of lives.
The wave of insecurity in the Northeast at the weekend also saw the convoy of Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni come under insurgents’ attack, leaving a policeman dead.
Kaduna and Sokoto states were also not spared the horror of insecurity as gunmen killed a pastor in the former and abducted his wife while a clash between some youths and bandits in Sokoto State also left one person dead.
A counter-insurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad, Zagazola Makama, who disclosed the clash between Boko Haram and ISWAP in a post on his social media platform X on Saturday, said the casualty figures on both sides could add up to more than 60 as the infighting continued.
According to Makama, a heavy fight broke out between the two militant groups at Tumbum Ali Island in Marte LGA at about 1400hours, culminating in the death of some commanders of the warring groups.
He said the attack was in retaliation of the massive killing of ISWAP fighters by the Buduma factions which had seized most of their hideouts.
He wrote: “Scores of fighters from the Jam’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihd (Boko Haram), and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists, including their commanders, were killed during an infighting in the North East of Borno State.
“Reports indicated that a heavy fight broke out between the two groups at Tumbum Ali Island in Marte LGA at about 1400hours.
“Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region, that six boats belonging to the Bakura Buduma faction and four JAS elements boats, all filled with fighters, were destroyed.
“The sources said the casualties on both sides could be more than 60 as the infighting continued.”
Buni’s convoy attacked on Maiduguri/ Damaturu highway
No fewer than six security personnel were wounded while a policeman was feared killed as Boko Haram terrorists attacked Governor Buni’s convoy on the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway at about 6 pm yesterday.
The convoy was returning to Damaturu from Maiduguri after the governor attended the 24th combined convocation of University of Maiduguri only to run into an ambush laid by the terrorists between Mainok and Benishiek communities.
The governor was, however, not in the convoy as he had jetted to Abuja after the convocation ceremony.
Among the top Yobe Government officials in the convoy were the Secretary to the State Government, Baba Malam Wali; the Special to the Governor on Security, Brig-Gen. Dahiru Abdulsalam (rtd) and his Special Adviser on Religious Affairs, Babagana Malam Kyari.
There were also military escorts with two mine resistant ambush protected (mrap) vehicles and 3 Toyota gun trucks, police escorts, DSS operatives and members of Yobe State Hunters Group who had accompanied the governor to the convocation ceremony.
A witness who survived the attack said the attack was launched at both the front and the rare of the convoy simultaneously.
Sources said that the troops leading the convoy with MRAP, a gun truck and another vehicle conveying the police and DSS were shot at, while the vehicle at the end of the convoy only had to drive rims as all the tyres were deflated with gunshots.
A source at the Gen. Sani Abatcha Specialist Hospital Damaturu source informed that one military truck driver, four police escorts and one DSS operative, who all sustained gunshot injuries, were in stable conditions.
The source further informed that one of the injured police escorts died shortly after arriving at the hospital in Damaturu.
Gunmen kill Kaduna pastor, abduct wife
There were also echoes of insecurity in Kaduna State where some gunmen invaded Damakasuwa in the Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Friday, killing the pastor in charge of the second Evangelical Church Winning All, Damakasuwa, and abducting his wife.
A resident of Damakasuwa, who witnessed the incident, said about three months ago, the gunmen had attempted to kidnap the son of the clergyman but were repelled with the help of the community, even though he (the son) was injured.
“Again, yesterday, they stormed his house, gunned him down and kidnapped his wife.
“The gunmen had earlier called in the morning, demanding N3 million ransom from the family. They have not called again,” the witness stated.
According to him, there has been tension in the community since the incident occurred.
He added: “We are calling on security agencies and the government to help rescue the widow who is traumatised at the moment.”
The police were yet to react at press time last night.
In Sokoto State, one person lost his life when the youths of Kwakwala, a community in the state, resisted some bandits who wanted to attack their village.
The spokesman for the Sokoto State Police Command, ASP Ahmad Rufa’i, said the bandits, in an attempt to attack Kwakwala community in the Sokoto metropolis, engaged in a shootout with the youth of the area.
He said: “Based on the report at our disposal, the suspected bandits numbering about 10 and armed with cutlasses and guns attacked a community behind the main campus of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.
“The youth of the area resisted the attack and in the process, the bandits shot one of the youths named Usman, who died instantly.
“Four other youths of the Kwalkwala and Dundaye communities also sustained various degrees of injuries in the attack.”
The PPRO, however, assured that the command under the leadership of CP Ali Kaigama was doing everything possible to ensure that the culprits were apprehended.
Nollywood actress and politician, Tonto Dikeh, has urged the Nigeria Police to release the body of late singer, MohBad for a befitting burial.
The movie star expressed how exhausted she is over the slowness of the autopsy process.
She stated she would front the discussion if no one spoke up, saying she has invested too much of her emotions, time, and love not to see this justice go through.
She noted how she, as well as other lovers of Mohbad, have given the Nigerian police time, adding that the case can’t be swept under the rug.
Tonto Dikeh wrote: “@nigerianpoliceforce, give us Mohbad for a befitting burial. We are tired of your carelessness and slowness. If no one speaks I will, I have invested too much of my emotions, my time, and my love to see this justice go through. Like QM says give the police more time. Honestly, we have given you all the more time than necessary. This is not the case to be swept under. We want Justice.”
Afrobeats singer and Mavins Records signee, Charles Chibuezechukwu, popularly known as Crayon, has likened himself to a regen of Grammy-winning singer, Wizkid.
The ‘Ngozi’ crooner also claimed that he also has a touch of Canadian superstars, Drake and Justin Bieber, in him.
Grammy-nominated singer, David Adeleke aka Davido has stated how his record-breaking album, Timeless served as a healing process for him.
It would be recalled that Davido released the album on March 31, 2023; and it was his first work of music since the death of his son Ifeanyi Adeleke.
In an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1, Davido revealed that he had recorded most of the songs in his home, surrounded by his family, and that gave him a calm atmosphere to make something.
He said: “I actually recorded most of the album in my house where I live with my wife. At the time, it was really only me, her, and her sisters, and I had one of my boys staying with me. It gave me time to really calm down. It was a healing process because I was happy to be making music. I was excited about it. I felt like an artiste that had just got a record deal.”
Davido also revealed that he had initially recorded a total of 28 songs for the album but had to filter out some.
He said that he wanted the musical work to be accepted by his fans based on its own merit rather than it being accepted by the fact that he had lost his son.
Reality star, Phyna has continued to drag a self-acclaimed relationship expert, Blessing CEO, over her foul statement about Edo women.
Blessing had stated in a video, alleging that Edo women are often uneducated and are mostly found in Europe doing prostitution for a living amongst other things.
Reacting in a new video, Phyna ridiculed the self-acclaimed therapist for crossing the line by insulting her people.
While mocking her for covering her BBL scars with tattoo inks, the BBNaija star threatened to beat up blessing Okoro in a fistfight.
She urged her to tender a public apology and retract her statement about her people.
She wrote: “Mama Blessing CEO, no be you dem carry go police station wey come dey beg? No be you wey dem don shook shook come use tattoo cover your eczema? I no get respect, all those things you list about Edo people, you no list finish. 52-year-old woman, you no go focus on your life problems? Who told you Nigeria needs a therapist? Where your madness end, an there my mama own start.”
