Alaramma

Let me first commiserate with the families of the two Jambutu bomb blasts; the one at the new Jambutu jumu'at mosque and the ever bustling vegetable market/tipper garage. The lives and property lost are irreplaceable. The evil acts have created more orphans, more widows, to the already social problems facing the entire Northern Nigeria due to a large absent bread winners, guardians and role models. My condolences also goes to the victims of the Kano farm center carnage. Those behind it do not represent the mainstream Northern culture, religion or values. An average Northerner, whether Muslim or Christian, was not inclined to violence, or mass murder that we are witnessing today in our different communities. At what point did we turned off the good road? How did we become like this? While I was growing up in Yola, my parents and neighbors often eat together, especially dinner. Sometimes up to five parents would gather round, each with his own dinner, to eat together; there was ...

A serving State governor once ordered his followers to kill opposition members, he  somewhat said they are like cockroaches, "kill them where ever you find them". This kind of statement coming from a governor was the height of insensitivity and recklessness. A political leader, a father and a husband throwing caution to the winds is a subject of study to psychosocial students. Like the former Governor, a former minister of the Federal republic also called for a total Annihilation of Fulani tribe. He called them "tsetse flies". What do humans do to tsetse flies? I find this very distasteful! Senior citizens of the Federal republic spewing such hate speeches. Educated, well traveled, yet petty. If a Yoruba man in Lagos is caught with a human head, will you generalize that all Yoruba's are cultists? The answer is NO. But this former minister had chosen to be a degraded human being. Just like the former Governor, who is a Hausa man, the former minister, a Yorub...