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Southern Kaduna
February 18, 2017

The Thread: Audu’s unfortunate arrest is a teachable moment, Oby Ezekwesili says | #FreeAudu

Yesterday, Audu Maikori was arrested and shipped to Abuja for ‘inciting violence’. Today, Ms Ezekwesili spoke with the state governor, El Rufai, who says he will release Audu, but wants to teach him some lessons about consequences. Do see below: I urged the @GovKaduna to get @Audu out & he replied that his policy of... Read More
The News Blog
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February 18, 2017

Backstory: #SouthernKaduna killings and the arrest of Audu Maikori | #FreeAudu

Audu Maikori is the CEO of Chocolate City Entertainment and one of the most vocal advocates against the spate of killings in Southern Kaduna, Nigeria. At noon on Friday, he was picked up by men of the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos and was flown to the Force Headquarters in Abuja. Mr Maikori’s lawyer, Mark... Read More
Featured, Thinking Through
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February 17, 2017

The Thread: Some people are convinced Audu Maikori’s arrest is justified | #FreeAudu

Senior Special Assistant to the Kogi state Governor on media, Gbenga Olorunpomi, is of the mind that Audu saw his arrest coming and set “Twittermania” in motion. Gbenga believes that Audu deserves to be arrested for spreading falsehood. This just makes us wonder about a number of things: El Rufai’s statements, his role in the... Read More
The News Blog
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February 17, 2017

The Thread: MI Abaga and other Nigerians cry out for the FG to #FreeAudu

Since Audu Maikori, Chocolate City Group boss and native of Southern Kaduna took on the job of letting Nigerians know the extent to which Southern Kaduna had become a killing field, controversy stirred. He was accused of instigating hate and spreading falsehood and using fake pictures to buttress his messages. It turned out that one... Read More
The News Blog
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February 17, 2017

The Thread: Maybe this is confirmation that El-Rufai would be a disastrous president | #FreeAudu

Audu Maikori, a vocal critic of the government’s handling of the Southern Kaduna crisis, has been arrested. Information circulating on social media says that an arrest warrant was issued by a magistrate court in Kaduna, upon which Audu was moved from Lagos to Abuja. https://twitter.com/chairmanNHRC/status/832666636272300037 Twitter NG is largely furious about this development, and some persons... Read More
The News Blog
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February 17, 2017

YNaija Says: These reports of Audu Maikori’s arrest had better not be true

We have just got hold of very disturbing news of Chocolate City boss, Audu Maikori’s arrest. The National Human rights Commission reports that he was picked up by the Nigeria Police and has been flown to the Force headquarters in Abuja. Audu Maikori has been very vocal about the killings in Southern Kaduna and has often had... Read More
Thinking Through
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February 17, 2017

BREAKING: Police arrest Chocolate City boss, Audu Maikori

by Dolapo Adelana The Nigeria Police Force has arrested CEO of Chocolate City Audu Maikori. According to @chairmanNHRC, Maikori was picked up in Lagos on Friday and was flown to the Police Headquarters in Abuja. It is believed that he was arrested following his advocacy and request that the killings in Southern Kaduna be stopped.... Read More
The News Blog
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February 6, 2017

Ayo Sogunro: The gross misconducts of president Buhari

by Ayo Sogunro   Part A: Background  In 2007, Wole Soyinka wrote the very scathing essay: “The Crimes of Buhari”. In the essay, Soyinka reviewed General Buhari’s 1985 regime, and highlighted the features of that era: Buhari’s imperial attitude; repression of free speech, selective enforcement of decrees, and partisanship towards the core political elite. The... Read More
Opinion
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February 4, 2017

The Thread: Nigerians call for Audu Maikori’s head over false information on #SouthernKaduna

Audu Maikori may just have lost all credibility as it relates to #SouthernKaduna killings. The Chocolate City Group boss had taken it upon himself to shine the light on the genocide that had been taking place in his hometown over the past year. He wrote articles, conducted an interview and circulated pictures of the genocides... Read More
Opinion
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Sultan
February 4, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: The dangerous criminalisation of Fulani ethnicity

by Farooq Kperogi The Nigerian mass media—and the online echo chambers they have spawned on social media and elsewhere—have normalized the pathologization and criminalization of the Fulani ethnic identity through their popularization of the odious “Fulani herdsmen” collocation. Criminalizing and pathologizing an entire ethnic identity is often the precursor to genocide. That’s why an ignorant... Read More
Opinion
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February 4, 2017

“I unreservedly apologise” | Audu Maikori retracts statement on #SouthernKaduna killings (READ)

by Audu Maikori Following the statement by the College of Education, Gidan-Waya Kaduna and the Kaduna State government refuting the story that 5 students of the school were killed by Fulani herdsmen en-route to school on the 27th of January 2017, as reported by one Simon Joseph (my personal driver) I decided to further investigate... Read More
Opinion
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February 3, 2017

Douglas Murray: Who will protect Nigeria’s northern Christians?

by Douglas Murray Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to be their neighbours — and who are now cleansing them from the area. The locals daren’t collect the freshest bodies. Some who tried earlier have already been killed, spotted by the waiting... Read More
Opinion
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February 2, 2017

The YNaija Tracklist: FG to increase VAT on luxury items | Arms cash: Obanikoro returns N30m, to pay N417m more | More stories

From the papers this morning – a Tracklist. FG to increase VAT on luxury items – YNaija FG’s attempt to hold secret trial for Dasuki is satanic – Fayose – YNaija 3 soldiers, several terrorists killed as troops clash with Boko Haram – YNaija Just In: Gunmen kill 3 Nigerian officials in Cameroun – YNaija... Read More
Featured
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February 1, 2017

Opinion: Growing calls for self defence, an indictment of government ineffectiveness

Adesina Tosin Nathaniel   “And I Told My People, I say Any Fulani Herdsmen you see Around You Kill Him, Yesterday she was talking I just kept Quiet, Because you know women there are Things you don’t tell Them and I’ve told them in the Church Here, Around This Premises that any Fulani Herdsman that... Read More
Opinion
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January 30, 2017

Opinion: DSS Vs Apostle Suleiman- Let justice be done

by Inibehe Effiong It is politically correct and simplistic for anyone to demand the arrest and prosecution of Apostle Johnson Suleiman, the outspoken and controversial Founder and General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries over his recent belligerent utterances against those said by the Nigerian government to be aliens from Mali, Niger, Chad and other... Read More
Opinion
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January 29, 2017

Simon Kolawole: On the bloodbath in Southern Kaduna

by Simon Kolawole Sigh. Usually, the most tricky topic for me to discuss regarding Nigeria’s nationhood is religion and ethnicity. Difficult to discuss not because I’m afraid of being verbally molested and splashed with mud, but because emotive issues hardly lend themselves to reason. Ethno-religious matters are so emotionally charged that reason is always the... Read More
Opinion
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January 27, 2017

Insiders: “Our government should stop being in denial about #SouthernKaduna killings”

The Southern Kaduna issue has become an albatross for the Federal government, there seems not to be any effective solution to address the issue, because in spite of the deployment of the army, the crisis has not been nipped in the bud yet. Our Insiders all think the federal government seems not to be doing... Read More
Thinking Through
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January 26, 2017

The Thread: An ethnic crisis is brewing on Twitter and Audu Maikori is in the crosshairs

Twitter NG is feeling the tremors over alleged deliberate falsehoods by Chocolate city boss, Audu Maikori. Some persons allege that the stories he’s told and the pictures he’s used to buttress those stories and canvass support for Southern Kaduna crisis are all false. He has been lumped in the same category as Femi Fani-Kayode and... Read More
Cover Stories, Opinion
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January 26, 2017

The Thread: ” How much is enough to dance on the corpses of your fellow Nigerians?” Southern Kaduna native comes to Audu Maikori’s defence

Advocacy is a thankless job anyday, so when Audu Maikori decided to raise thenecessary awareness of the havoc going on in Southern Kaduna, which someone aptly named “The Killing fields of Southern Kaduna”, no one thought his motive was suspect. Until today. When the coalition of @jag_bros, @Ayourb and others raised the distressing fact of... Read More
Cover Stories, Opinion
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January 26, 2017

The Thread: Audu Maikori defends himself

Earlier today, @jag_bros surfaced on Twitter and began fact checking pictures Audu Maikori, chocolate city boss, had use to highlight the crisis rocking Southern Kaduna. Soon enough, @Ayourb and others joined in, saying that Audu was spreading false information, inciting hatred and religious mayhem and should be picked up by the DSS. In fact, one... Read More
Cover Stories, Opinion
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January 26, 2017

The Thread: Twitter wars | Audu Maikori is accused of spreading falsehood about Southern Kaduna genocide

This came out of left field, we swear, although the tweet directly below says something about a meeting of northern social media influencers. Hell Ruffy invited APC social media influencers to Kaduna recently. The uncoordinated attacks on @Audu is the outcome of the visit pic.twitter.com/5ONVbenh6O — IKECHUKWU (@iykimo) January 26, 2017 @Ayourb and @ jag_bros... Read More
Opinion
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January 25, 2017

Femi Fani-Kayode: The killer midget and the stunted dwarf [Pt. 1]

by Femi-Fani Kayode “Not a single soul has been prosecuted, let alone jailed for the genocide in Southern Kaduna and you are blaming someone for preaching self defense? You are INSANE. Yes, INSANE”- Olufemi Korode, Twitter, 24th January 2016. Can anyone dispute the fact that Mr Korode is right? Are those that say that Christians should... Read More
Opinion
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January 25, 2017

The Thread: “Hate speeches against Christians have been going on in Mosques from time immemorial”

Can two walk together except they agree? Except one is gagged and bound. “Hate speech,” according to the American Bar Association, “is speech that offends, threatens, or insults groups, based on race, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or other traits.” This is what Apostle Suleman has been accused of when he gave this message to members... Read More
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