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According to BBC Hausa, dozens of civilians were reportedly killed in the early hours of Wednesday, September 15, 2021, after a military fighter jet mistakenly bombed a village named Buhari in Yobe State.

According to a villager who spoke with the BBC, three fighter jets went around the area before one of the pilots dropped the bomb on the civilian population. He added that 5 of his relatives died in the incident.

Recall that a similar event happened in 2017 when the Nigerian Air Force mistakenly bombed an Internal Displaced Persons’ camp in Rann, Borno State.

The military hasn’t released any statement regarding the incident.

Reacting to the development, Bulama Bukarti, a popular journalist, said: “BBC Hausa reports that many civilians were killed & others injured earlier today when a jet believed to be NAF’s bombed Buhari village, Yunusari LGA, Yobe State. A witness who lost five relatives said “three jets went around, then one of them started firing in the center of the village.

“This area is in the northern part of Yobe, close to BH/ISWAP’s area of operation, so it is possible that the jets were on anti-BH operation. Villagers say they are unsure if the jets belong to Nigeria or Niger, but it’s unlikely to be Niger’s given it’s within Nigeria’s territory.”

Zimbabwean court orders Robert Mugabe’s body to be exhumed for reburial at national heroes’ shrine in Harare.

HARARE – A Zimbabwean court has ordered former President Robert Mugabe’s body be exhumed for reburial at the national heroes’ shrine in Harare.

Three of Mugabe’s children challenged the traditional chief’s order for his body to be exhumed and reburied.
Bona, Bellarmine and Tinotenda Mugabe filed a court application, arguing that traditional Chief Zvimba acted outside his jurisdiction when he approached a village court to hold a hearing into Mugabe’s burial.

Mugabe died in 2019 at the age of 95 and was buried in the courtyard of his home, 90 kilometres west of the capital Harare.

The CEO of Dudu Heritage, Ola Ibironke has died after he slumped at the Ibadan Golf Club last night.

Ibironke, who is married to the veteran Nigerian actress Bimbo Oshin was said to have slumped at the golf club around 8:30pm on Sunday while he was out with friends.

Efforts to revive him proved abortive as he was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead by the attending doctors.

The demise of this popular socialite has left many in shock and more in grief as a bright Sunday turned dark with the news of his death.

It will be recalled that there have been rumours about his marriage with Bimbo Oshin having problems and he came out recently to debunk those statements.

The father of two, said he’s still happily married to his wife and they have been together since 2004 and such rumours were untrue and unfounded.

This sad incident therefore, has left Bimbo and their son and daughter in pains as they have lost a father, husband, movie promoter, marketer and a socialite who not only provided for them but protected them from external attack.

I believe Igbo should have their Biafra because I find no single positive reason why we must live as one nation while other people closer to us than the Igbo are having separate nations.
As a man without colonial mentality, I do not allow colonial hangover to becloud my reason.

There is already Biafra. No Hausa/Fulani dares dream of going to the east for whatever reason. So where is the one Nigeria?
Is it not better to make the separation formal so that we can trade freely and and even send ambassadors?
Can’t you see how we ralate with Niger Republic, Cameroon, Ghana, Chad and Benin Republic?
We related with some of them for ages even before we know the Igbo.
What is wrong if strangers, Igbos, have their seprate nation like our old friends in Niger Rep, Ghana, Chad etc do?

For a hundred years past, we have lived in mutual suspicion and bitterness with these strangers, sometimes leading to carnage.
Why must we live as some dead colonial masters wanted us to live?
Only truth can solve this problem not a python [dance] and not a civil war mentality. We, the Hausa/Fulani, are already the victims of this profitless irrational one Nigeria. Countless Hausa/Fulani people have died like dogs, unmourned, uncompensated for, unavenged. Why must we accept economic blockade and massacres in the name of a fictional arrangement ?
What is our gain and what is our profit ?
Northern muslims have never met with disaster in all of their history that consumes more blood, that destroys livelihood, that poisons the pyschic like one Nigeria. I care more for my people than Nigeria. I do not see Nigeria as worth the death and continuous humiliation of my people.

We lack everything because of one Nigeria. Our markets are not ours. Our banks are not ours. Our telecommunitionbusiness are not ours. Our schools are not ours. Our foreign scholarship are not ours. We have no control over anything except our mouths that we are forced to shut up.
We are the poorest in all developemental indices in Africa because we gave up everything to one ungrateful Nigeria.
We must resist the false suggestion of greedy thieves posing as our leaders whose only vision is to own a mansion in Dubai.
Neither shall we fall for the error of old men dreaming of past personal glory.

Let us reassess our condition rationally and boldly. Let us define the direction of our own future. Let us choose what we believe is the best for us and our children and fight for it.
We and our youth must think for ourselves and give direction to our history. The world has changed and so we must change. We are not less than 90 million in population. We are the largest black nation on earth even without Nigeria. We must never remain stagnant and blinded by fake arrangement.

Colonial nation states arrangement like Nigeria are fast losing relevence. The world is dealing in regions made up of real mutually compatible groups of people. Every great compatible group of people are striving to be truly represented in regions.
Each mutually compatible people wish to, directly without acrimonious hindrance, exploit the opportunity offered by regionally organised globalized world. Each also wishes to enrich the world and preserve their common heritage.This is the reason for anti-colonial self determination struggles across the globe from Europe to Asia and from Australia to Americas. The Igbos had travelled and mingled among free nations. No power on earth will stop them from dancing in the rising sun of growing freedom of people away from the stagnant historical dustbin of nation statism.

They want to face the world on their own terms.
We, on our part, must not continue to be victims of shortsighted local helmsmen who cannot think beyond what those dead imperial masters had ordained by force of arms. If our parents were ruled by them, we must never accept their ghosts to rule us via greedy hosts.
Ninety million people are by far larger than 60% of individual nations in the world. We will not be the poorest. We will not be the weakest. We will not be isolated. Infact, we will be the biggest in Africa and among the richest. So why all the self imprisonment in an old moribund, no longer safe and no longer relevant Nigeria ? Every wise man when given the choice of saving the house or the family, would certainly choose to save the family. So I choose my people. I want them to be free anywhere in the world including in Biafra, and I want them to be in control of what is theirs at home. So I choose my people.

I want to be really sure that you’ve gone to meet your maker before I post anything about your death. I have left so many comments on people’s post that your account was hacked, and that you’re still much alive. Today! I got the true confirmation of your death from your daughters through my friend and a sister.

Mummy Mary Ogaga I am short of words. I don’t know what to say because, I spoke with you few days ago before my brothers birthday. I don’t believe you’re no more, but I give God the grace for the the power of resurrection after Death on the last day.

Mummy, journey well. May God grant you eternal rest and may you continue to be at peace with your maker, till we shall all see again and depart no more, Amen. I miss you loads. Thanks for celebrating me , my Children and my family during your life time.

Adieu Mama.

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the United Nations to step in and take control of parts of the country as the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to fulfil its responsibilities under international laws.
Mr Soyinka said the international community “has a right and responsibility to declare sections of the country as a protectorate under the UN,” asking that the international body pull a “Namibia” and protect certain regions of the country.
“We are calling on the United Nations to intervene and stop this slave trade,” Mr Soyinka declared at an event in Lagos at the weekend.
He explained that when protocols and conditions given by the UN and signed by a said nation are violated, such nation has failed to live up to its responsibilities.

the protocols are there for any nation to champion the cause of these children and thereby enforce on this government international intervention in whatever form,” Mr Soyinka said.

Mr Soyinka’s comments refer to school kidnappings, such as the Bethel Baptist School, Kaduna where 32 students were released from their captors on Friday. Mr Soyinka described the kidnapping and targeting of school children as slavery, which he stated is more lucrative within the country than exporting people.
Mr Soyinka said he’d been in talks with governments and foreign heads of states, appealing that they elevate the targeting of children and the “forced repatriation to the attention of the United Nations in the next General Assembly.”

President Muhammadu Buhari has described the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, as thieves.

Buhari insisted that IPOB led by Nnamdi Kanu are thieves promoting terrorism.

The president argued that IPOB is not defending Christians in the Southeast.

In a statement by his mouthpiece, Garba Shehu, the president lamented the group’s attack on police stations and government facilities in the Southeast, NAN reports.

Buhari maintained that the Kanu-led group are not freedom fighters.

The statement reads partly: “Further afield in the South-East, IPOB are not struggling for freedom when they attack police stations and property, but rather committing acts of terrorism,” to steal money.

“IPOB is not defending Christians, as their highly paid foreign lobbyists claim when almost every citizen of those states they terrorize is uniformly Christian.”

The president also appealed to Nigerians to unite against, “those who seek to divide us for their own nefarious financial and political gain.”

Ebonyi, Yobe and Katsina states, as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have received N24billion for ranching from the Federal Government.

Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media, Garba Shehu, stated this last night on Politics Today, a programme on Channels.

He said four received N6billion each for ranching and other associated purposes.

Shehu said: ” Yes, Katsina has been given, but Katsina is not the only state that has been given.

“So far, about N24billion has been disbursed to about four states for ranching and associated activities.

“Yobe has been given. Ebonyi has been given and FCT has been given. More than eight other states are now being processed for this payment.”

Shehu said the programme is one of the ways the Buhari Administration intends to end the farmer/herder clashes.

Economic hardship being experienced in Imo State has been compounded following the strike by the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) now sells for N500 per litre at the black market. This situation has consequently caused over a 100% rise in transport fares across the state.

Members of the Imo State chapter of IPMAN had on Wednesday commenced a strike over refusal of the Imo State government to honour a court judgment to pay compensation to a member of the association whose fuel station was demolished by the past administration of former Governor Rochas Okorocha.

As the strike enters its 3rd day, black market operators are now having a field day, with a litre of fuel now costing between N500 and N550. Fuel stations operating in the state have all shut down. Our correspondent who monitored the situation on Friday reports that commercial bus drivers as well as motorcyclists have tripled their fares.

Saturday Sun learnt the black market operators go to neighbouring states of Anambra and Abia to source PMS at of 240 per litre and then sell at N500 /550 per litre. Transport fare from Owerri to Orlu is N1000 as against normal price of N400 . This situation has left many passengers stranded.