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The seven-day Kwanzaa Festival for Black people everywhere has just ended, but its seven great Principles should really be taken up as the global philosophy for Black folk. Principle 6 of Kwanzaa is Creativity, that is, to do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Is that going to be possible in Nigeria?  

To start off, Fulanization means Ahmadu Bello’s Declaration of 12th October 1960 that Nigeria is to become an “estate” of the immigrant settler Fulani. Where the lands of indigenous peoples are to be “conquered territory”, and its peoples are never to be allowed control over their future. 

  It is amusing to watch a three-year-old struggling to carry a heavy item. The child has seen Papa carry it, and wants to be like Papa. Papa watches for a few minutes, then goes over to his little one and lovingly says, “Kiddo, it’s my job as your daddy to carry that heavy load. Here, let me take it”. Instantly, the little child understands. The child understands that there are some things that Papa does, and some other things that a child can do.

  To the Nigerian populace, the word “Restructuring” signifies “change”. It generally means resource control by the indigenous owners, and more power to the states, thus, a level of autonomy somewhat comparable to what obtained when Nigeria was a Federation in name and in fact. Tinubu, the presidential candidate of APC is visibly ailing, and his running mate, Kashim Shettima, has already clearly said that restructuring is ruled out should he come to power.  

Seventy-six people have died as their boat capsized while they tried to flee dangerously high floodwaters that have inundated swathes of southern Nigeria. The