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The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III, has said that Nigeria’s unity is very important to all, adding that all deliberations about it must be harmonised without bias.

The sultan spoke through a representative yesterday at a two-day symposium organised by the Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) in collaboration with the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA).

Sultan Abubakar who urged Nigerians to refrain from bias in their contributions, said the symposium must be towards helping to bring progress and development to Nigeria.

The sultan who was represented by the Emir of Keffi, Dr Shehu Usman Chindo Yamusa, said: “The unity of Nigeria is very important to us and to our nation, and so all deliberations must be harmonised without bias.

“All discussions must be compiled without disparities. All contributions that affect the ummah must be analysed in a way to bring progress and development in our country.”

A former chief of state to the senate president and spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed, in a paper titled: “The Nigerian Federation and the Management of Our Diversity: A Critical Evaluation,” said since a nation is made up of diverse peoples, citizens have identities which define them further.

He said the issue of indigene and settler is not in contention in Nigeria.

“The constitution mentions ‘indigenous’ only in reference to qualification for citizenship (Section 25(1). The indigene has acquired a profound presence in our lives and in the manner we organised the struggle for power and economic resources. The elaborate constitutional provisions for the fundamental rights of the citizen had been blind to the indigene, or for that matter, the monster it has created.


“Chapter IV of the constitution outlines among others, rights to life, dignity of the human person, private and family life, thought, conscience and religion, expression and press, peaceful assembly and association, movement and acquisition of property to apply equally to each citizen,” Baba-Ahmed said, adding that a federal arrangement is primarily an acceptance that countries will be basically designed to accord recognition to cultural, spatial or even political pluralism, and sharing of powers between federating units and a centre which gives substance and meaning to identities, values and aspirations to all citizens.

“Significantly, federal systems define citizenship at the national level, and in various forms and scale, allow federating units the scope to design and determine how they organize governance and other matters which influence lives of citizens who live within them.

“Conflict over these attempts to create a state and a national citizen are endemic in all federal systems, and they have been resolved in most instances, by recourse to the judicial process and in many countries, by an alert agency which polices inter-governmental relations,” he added.



A discussant, Dr Auwal Abdullahi Aliyu who also spoke on the citizens/settlers dichotomy said it was unfortunate that no matter how long you live in Nigeria, you cannot become a citizen in that area even if you were born there.



He said issues of indigenes/settlers dichotomy had made Nigeria to lose a lot of people, adding that most deaths in the country were caused by ethnic, religious or even regional clashes caused by reckless comments and utterances of some leaders.

https://leadership.ng/nigerias-unity-must-be-negotiated-without-bias-sultan/amp/?

This Terrorist would use one mouth to be playing Taqiya and another to do jihad

As the leader of the Nigeria Islamic Council how have you controlled the Islamic space brewing these Terrorists

Sheik Gumi is cashing out as Islamic clerk without sanction from the Islamic council

Nigeria would be more better if we go our seperate ways..

All man for himself.

I thought,u guys says It can Never be negotiated.

Disintegration is the answer. We can't live in the same country with backward people.

You guys are bunch of terrorists

H

Bigflamie:
Disintegration is the answer. We can't live in the same country backward people.

You guys are bunch of terrorists

By backward people, you mean drug lords/merchants, human traffickers, cultists, and ONION BANDITS?

Yes, it must be negotiated taking everything into cognizance.

Including onions.

OnionBandit:
By backward people, you mean drug lords/merchants, human traffickers, cultists, and what have you?

You forgot onion bandits.

Simplyleo:

You forgot onion bandits.

Adding it right away

Simplyleo:

You forgot onion bandits.

Make Igbos loot too. Is it only northerners and Yorubas who should loot? Do me I do you God no go vex. I once saw Yorubas carting away bags of rice from an articulated truck in Akungba in Ondo State

Ok

Please us in the campaign to take down the App built by Garba Adamu, the idiat who started the move against twitter and sued twitter.

He is against the west but uses their platform. He has an App called CROWWE on play store. Open the APP. Dont it, click on the 3 dots... on the top right and declare the APP as inappropriate.

Over 10,000 people have done already. That APP must be taken down.

Google as already deactivated the desktop version. Remaining the mobile version.

See reviews from Nigerians already

iwaeda:
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III, has said that Nigeria’s unity is very important to all, adding that all deliberations about it must be harmonised without bias.

The sultan spoke through a representative yesterday at a two-day symposium organised by the Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) in collaboration with the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) and Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA).

Sultan Abubakar who urged Nigerians to refrain from bias in their contributions, said the symposium must be towards helping to bring progress and development to Nigeria.

The sultan who was represented by the Emir of Keffi, Dr Shehu Usman Chindo Yamusa, said: “The unity of Nigeria is very important to us and to our nation, and so all deliberations must be harmonised without bias.

“All discussions must be compiled without disparities. All contributions that affect the ummah must be analysed in a way to bring progress and development in our country.”

A former chief of state to the senate president and spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr Hakeem Baba Ahmed, in a paper titled: “The Nigerian Federation and the Management of Our Diversity: A Critical Evaluation,” said since a nation is made up of diverse peoples, citizens have identities which define them further.

He said the issue of indigene and settler is not in contention in Nigeria.

“The constitution mentions ‘indigenous’ only in reference to qualification for citizenship (Section 25(1). The indigene has acquired a profound presence in our lives and in the manner we organised the struggle for power and economic resources. The elaborate constitutional provisions for the fundamental rights of the citizen had been blind to the indigene, or for that matter, the monster it has created.


“Chapter IV of the constitution outlines among others, rights to life, dignity of the human person, private and family life, thought, conscience and religion, expression and press, peaceful assembly and association, movement and acquisition of property to apply equally to each citizen,” Baba-Ahmed said, adding that a federal arrangement is primarily an acceptance that countries will be basically designed to accord recognition to cultural, spatial or even political pluralism, and sharing of powers between federating units and a centre which gives substance and meaning to identities, values and aspirations to all citizens.

“Significantly, federal systems define citizenship at the national level, and in various forms and scale, allow federating units the scope to design and determine how they organize governance and other matters which influence lives of citizens who live within them.

“Conflict over these attempts to create a state and a national citizen are endemic in all federal systems, and they have been resolved in most instances, by recourse to the judicial process and in many countries, by an alert agency which polices inter-governmental relations,” he added.



A discussant, Dr Auwal Abdullahi Aliyu who also spoke on the citizens/settlers dichotomy said it was unfortunate that no matter how long you live in Nigeria, you cannot become a citizen in that area even if you were born there.



He said issues of indigenes/settlers dichotomy had made Nigeria to lose a lot of people, adding that most deaths in the country were caused by ethnic, religious or even regional clashes caused by reckless comments and utterances of some leaders.

https://leadership.ng/nigerias-unity-must-be-negotiated-without-bias-sultan/amp/?

Finally a man with wisdom

OnionBandit:
By backward people, you mean drug lords/merchants, human traffickers, cultists, and ONION BANDITS?

Yes can they be left alone to go ?

Nna mehnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Built2last:
Ok

Please us in the campaign to take down the App built by Garba Adamu, the idiat who started the move against twitter and sued twitter.

He is against the west but uses their platform. He has an App called CROWWE on play store. Open the APP. Dont it, click on the 3 dots... on the top right and declare the APP as inappropriate.

Over 10,000 people have done already. That APP must be taken down.

Google as already deactivated the desktop version. Remaining the mobile version.

See reviews from Nigerians already

Glady I have flagged it

The value system across Nigeria is too different to be one country honestly ...if we must tell ourselves the truth

The chief terrorist have spoken

Illiterate and zombie should be in one country why sensible people should be in another country. I want a technologically advanced country, not an illiterate, zombie country

It is not important to us.
We want a referendum. All this unity-begging by the north should end.

Built2last:
Ok

Please us in the campaign to take down the App built by Garba Adamu, the idiat who started the move against twitter and sued twitter.

He is against the west but uses their platform. He has an App called CROWWE on play store. Open the APP. Dont it, click on the 3 dots... on the top right and declare the APP as inappropriate.

Over 10,000 people have done already. That APP must be taken down.

Google as already deactivated the desktop version. Remaining the mobile version.

See reviews from Nigerians already

The way Oyigboupdate uses different fb s to report Nnamdi Kanu posts, that was how I used different s to report Cow-we.

Skillsnigeria:
Illiterate and zombie should be in one country why sensible people should be in another country. I want a technologically advanced country, not an illiterate, zombie country

If you travel through Nigeria, you will understand development is far from us.

Kingsnairaland:


Finally a man with wisdom

Habi, even here in Lagos, I am discriminated against, despite my dad born in Isale-Eko. The day an Ibo man becomes a governor in Kwara and Hausa man in Anambra and Ijaw man in Kano, that day is the birth of new Nigeria!

Built2last:
Ok

Please us in the campaign to take down the App built by Garba Adamu, the idiat who started the move against twitter and sued twitter.

He is against the west but uses their platform. He has an App called CROWWE on play store. Open the APP. Dont it, click on the 3 dots... on the top right and declare the APP as inappropriate.

Over 10,000 people have done already. That APP must be taken down.

Google as already deactivated the desktop version. Remaining the mobile version.

See reviews from Nigerians already

Done

Unity beggers everywhere

IamFINESSE:
Unity beggers everywhere

It is the system, Nigerians are not lazy.

Lalasticlala.

Skillsnigeria:
Illiterate and zombie should be in one country why sensible people should be in another country. I want a technologically advanced country, not an illiterate, zombie country

I can ensure an illiterate zombie country, I can't survive a criminal country.

Sipsum:


I can ensure an illiterate zombie country, I can't survive a criminal country.

Criminalities is everywhere in the country now due to a Visionless zombie president we have. Even here in south west, criminalities is now on the increase. Illiterate and zombie are the worst set of people to associate with