Dear Flourish,
Thank you for your feedback. Even if I am a Muslim, does it mean that a Muslim cannot know history? Some of the oldest hospital written documents in the area now known as Nigeria were written by Muslims.
For example, the Kano Chronicles, which are at least 200 years old, possibly older, were written by Muslims.
Flourish, are Muslims so bad? You and I have a lot to thank Muslims for. Even the very foundation of the Internet, which enables you to make these claims, originated from Islamic science.
The word 'algorithm' is named after Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian Muslim mathematician, who invented the discipline of mathematics. Without him, there would be no Internet as we know it.
The word 'algebra' is taken from his book, Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala, which means 'The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing'.
The father of modern surgery, Abū al-Qāsim al-Zahrāwī, was an Arab Muslim physician, surgeon and chemist.
Some of the scientific tools that we use today were the brainchild of Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, a Muslim Arab mathematician and physicist who lived over a thousand years ago.
The concept of hospitals was first introduced in Baghdad by Muslims in 805 AD, when they founded the Hospital of Baghdad.
The oldest university in the world is the University of Al-Karaouine, founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco, by Muslims.
You need not see Muslims as your enemies. Try to understand them. They have existed as a religion in the geographical area known as Nigeria for far longer than Christianity or Judaism.
Thanks again, and may God bless you.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.
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2027: SOUTH WEST, TINUBU'S SUPPORTERS PLAYING WITH FIRE - Part 1
It is actually premature to be talking about 2027 elections less than 2 years into our first tenure, but what is happening in the political arena is forcing me to speak to it, for as they say, 'a stitch in time saves nine'.
As an APC member, I naturally would want my party to win re-election in 2027.
However, as a realist, I have my concerns.
I recall that during the 2019 party Primaries, when I saw the way our party was handling the Primaries, I wrote that if the party wasn't careful, it could go the way of the PDP which lost power after 16 years.
I predicted then that if we didn't return to our promised progressive path and ideology and instead stayed obsessed with just winning elections at any and all cost, just like the PDP, we could lose power at the federal level by 2031.
When I wrote that, we were not faced with the current situation we are faced with. Indeed, I never imagined that we would be in the current situation any time soon, surely not under President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Note: I am not talking about the present economic situation and the likes. I am talking about the current and increasing 'ghaghagha' in our party and among APC members and supporters of the PBAT administration.
Incidentally, many Nigerians have a short memory. Permit me to juggle the memories of some short memoried and uninitiated political neophytes.
Many will recall that, as we approached the 2023 presidential election, with the conduct of some individuals, I desperately cautioned that we should be careful and not play with the North. Somehow, common sense prevailed, and we succeeded, unarguably and undeniably with the unquantifiable help of the North (the records of the election results prove so).
Less than 2 years into the tenure, we are witnesses to how the relationship between the North and President Bola Tinubu or rather his administration is quickly deteriorating, driven by the words and conduct of unfortunately, many from the President’s geopolitical zone and tribe. Truth be told.
I have read and heard the arrogant posturing and braggadacio by some people who I refer to as political rabble rousers, but I get more worried each day as it keeps looking more and more like a movie we had seen before.
May I remind some persons that, more than the performance or lack thereof of the President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan administration, it was his attitude, and that of people around him, towards the North that ultimately brought him down and by extension the PDP that had boasted that it would rule Nigeria for 60 years.
In the lead up to the 2015 Presidential election, inspite of the popularity of General Muhammadu Buhari Rtd and the gathering of political heavyweights under the umbrella of the then newly formed APC, one key factor that led to former President Jonathan and the PDP losing that election was underestimating the North and the disrespect and insult directed towards to North, notably led by the then first lady and accentuated by elements from the South South geopolitical zone and particularly his Ijaw kinsmen, many of them with little or no political weight and many of whom were living full time in NICON and Sheraton hotels Abuja then (with newly found free money).
Funny enough, many of these individuals contributed little or nothing to Jonathan's victory in 2011.
Indeed, many of them forgot that it was the agitation by groups like the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), spearheaded by the likes of Pastor Tunde Bakare, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Mr Yinka Odumakin (RIP) and co that eventually led to then VP Goodluck Jonathan becoming the acting President in the first place following the incapacitation of former President Shehu Musa Yaradua (God rest his soul).
THE FULL INTERVIEW VIDEO OF HADI SIRIKA ON ARISETV BELOW
1. Hadi Sirika did Justice to the Air Nigeria topic and won my heart.
I knew from day one all the noise going on in the media was paid for by those who lost the transparent bid supervised by @icrcng .
The same people that has killed our aviation sector are after Air Nigeria.
2. Those who are making case for @flyairpeace , I am sure you heard @hadisirika when he said "I stood my ground for @flyairpeace to go to Duabi,but today, is @flyairpeace still going to Duabi? No because they lack the capacity".
3. That is the same @flyairpeace people want @hadisirika to hand over Air Nigeria to.
OBJ handed Nigeria Airways to his friend company,Arik Air and Arik is indebted to the tune of over N300bn of which Nigeria taxpayers money is N250bn via AMCON.
So, do we hand it over to Arik?
4. When the Aviation sector was liberalized, Nigeria had over 130 Airline operating only about 10 are active .
We are always good at propagating blackmail instead of seeking informations from reliable sources.
We pride illogical theories against logic and value rumours more.
5. How can people believe that an aircraft was painted with N136bn?
"N136bn can buy five of such planes . No money was paid to paint any aircraft"- @hadisirika .
God bless you @teguando1
EMEFIELE/137 BDC'S/NAT ASSEMBLY/$2.8Billion. In Jan 2019, Emefiele was alledged to have handed over 137 BDC licenses for distribution to N/A members unknown to the vast majority of members. Each BDC receives $3m monthly for 7 month($2.8Billion). The link man cornered 30 licenses.
"How can you ask me to step down for Labour Party? I am a PhD holder in Engineering, I'm not a Trader. I was Deputy Speaker HoR in 1992, Kano State Governor for 8yrs.....If I see anyone better than me, I may consider withdrawal..."
Today I presented the 2023 Budget Proposals to a Joint Session of the National Assembly; the last time I would be laying the budget of the Federal Government of Nigeria before the National Assembly: https://t.co/LDGr0IrcEn