Icheoku says gradually but surely, the war of the worlds between Sunni and Shites Islamic sects have finally touched down and anchored in Nigeria. From now on, it is going to be Saudi Arabia/Turkey pitched against Iran, as they battle for consolidation of their hold on Northern Nigeria Islamic community. With the clash between Shiites and the Nigeria military, resulting in a bloody ordeal with Shiites Sheikh Ibraheem El-ZakZaky almost killed, the situation if not managed well could spill out of control.
First it was the Sunni Islamists Boko Haram backed by the Wahabist Saudi Arabia and now the Shiites Islamists with Iranian backing are now ready to join the confrontation with the authorities in Nigeria. The only good news is that the president of Nigeria, President Dr Muhammadu Buhari is himself a Sunni, the reason he was initially defending Boko Haram and would readily crush the Shiites, a rival sect to his Sunni sect. Icheoku calls for other religions as well as secular Nigerians to remain on eternal vigilance and plan contingencies on defending themselves as this two foes are now set on a course to ravage Northern Nigeria the same way they have laid waste the Middle East with Syria and Iraq being their current theater.
What a world we live in where adherents of the same Islamic religion cannot seem to agree on whose mode of worship or brand of their religion is the ideal one, leading to the massive carnage ongoing in the Middle East as well as other parts of the world where they have stepped into. Icheoku says Iran and Saudi Arabia are set for a brutal confrontation with each other in their competition for the hearts and minds of followers of their brand of Islam in Nigeria. A proxy war, using Boko Haram and Shites, is certainly afoot and your guess is as good as Icheoku's that it will be very destabilizing indeedMay be this will be yet another ground for the demand for an independent secular Biafra State, where all these religious manipulations will not be tolerated nor accepted. Icheoku however says that the Nigeria government of President Buhari can ill-afford another front on its war against Islamic terrorists, with the already Boko Haram raging inferno in Northeastern Nigeria. Icheoku warns that adding yet another merchants of death in the name of Shiites Islamist warriors, opening another front in the middle of the North, in Kaduna, is rather too risky a proposition for Buhari's government to fathom nor handle. Therefore whatever be the cost or sacrifice, the government must firmly sit on the situation in order not to let it slip out of control.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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