THE MENACING NIGERIAN INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTES BY S. KadiriSTITUTES

[Salimonu Kadiri]

Sequel to the appearance of Nigeria's Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar on Piers Morgan 'show' Barrister John Onyeukwu expatiated thus, "Diplomacy Meets Reality: what the Piers' Morgan Interview Reveals About Nigeria's Governance Gaps. Why Nigeria's Global Messaging cannot succeed while insecurity and silence define its domestic reality." Piers' Morgan show was designed to entertain, firstly, the Americans and the rest of the white world, and it was not meant to be a fact finding mission as it would have been in a serious interview. Yusuf Tuggar ought not to have attended the 'show' that was planned to humiliate him and ridicule Nigeria. It is for those reasons that I am in total agreement with Barrister Onyeukwu that Nigeria's global messaging as displayed by Yusuf Tuggar in Piers Morgan's 'show' is useless, while insecurity and silence define Nigeria's domestic reality. Nigerian leaders and the political elites should be communicating regularly with Nigerians on the subjects of economic and security developments in the country, instead of trying to please outsiders who do not have the good interest of Nigerians in their hearts.

Although Mr. Morgan was never in Nigeria he confronted Mr. Yusuf Tuggar with statistics of purported Christian casualties from Islamic genocides and numbers of churches destroyed. The statistics were produced by a group of Nigerian intellectual of prostitutes, often euphemistically referred to as NGOs and which are heavily financed by the USA. People die daily in Nigeria of different causes regardless of their religious faiths. As of date, birth and death registers are not well-kept. Anyone producing statistics of burnt Churches in Nigeria, must be able to tell, not only the total number of Churches in Nigeria but, the location of each Church. In order to be able to account for the accurate numbers of dead Christians in Nigeria there must be a total number of dead Nigerians in the whole country for the period from which the former is computed.

Narrating one of the Nigerian insecurity problems while silence defines its domestic reality, Barrister Onyeukwu wrote, "on 17 November 2025, armed men stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Maga, Danko/Wasagu LGA of Kebbi State, around 4 a.m. The attackers scaled the school fence after an exchange of gunfire with local security personnel, killing the school Vice Principal, Mallam Hassan Yakubu Makuku, and abducting 25, female students."     

Contrary to the accounts rendered by Barrister Onyeukwu on how the kidnapping of school girls in Kebbi occurred, the Governor of Kebbi State, Nasir Idris, was reported to have said the following in the online Nigerian Premium Times, "Credible intelligence was provided; the state mobilised soldiers to guide the school; yet mysteriously, and in a fashion that reeks of a choreographed treachery, the soldiers walked away mere moments before the attackers arrived." https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/836581-clear-sabotage-outrage-grows... (over Kebbi School abduction as governor blames security negligence). In normal clime, the President and the Governor should have addressed the nation in a joint television broadcast, to report the security personnel to Nigerians and with the promise of stiff penalty for the security deserters. That never happened. This has been the pattern of behaviour of Nigeria's security officers since 2014 when 300 Chibok's girls were abducted. Recall that President Goodluck Jonathan had declared a State of Emergency in Borno State and dusk to dawn curfew was in in force. Yet, Boko Haram could file in, in a convoy of vehicles to kidnap and transport about 300 school girls from Chibok to Sambisa, a distance of 60 kilometres without any security officers, who were supposed to enforce curfew, in sight. The complicity of the Nigerian Armed Forces in banditry, kidnapping for ransom, and insurgencies in Nigeria was highlighted by Shiekh Gumi when, on Wednesday, 23 of June 2021, he said in an interview in Arise News that, "these bandits, if you don't know, are cooperating with a lot of bad elements in our SECURITY system. This is business. So many people are involved." He wondered in the interview how the big weapons he saw with bandits/insurgents could cross the Nigerian borders and get into the forest without the cooperation of some bad elements of the security operatives assisting them. It is time for the President of Nigeria and all the Governors to hold the Nigerian Armed forces by the jugular to end their impunities and lawless behaviours.

  S. Kadiri  

[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Stockholm,

Peoples’ Planet

 

27th November, 2025 

To begin with, on the whole, given The role of NGOs in Nigeria and indeed, the rest of Africa, I’d like to take exception to Baba Kadiri's wording here, that the statistics for the alleged genocide of Nigeria’s Christians “were produced by a group of Nigerian intellectual prostitutes, often euphemistically referred to as NGOs and which are heavily financed by the USA”. My objection to the wording is that  it gives the impression that generally speaking Nigerian intellectuals working for NGOs that are heavily financed by the USA are in reality a bunch of ”Prostitutes” (Ashawo) and not just specifically the bunch that gave some false,  manipulated or misleading statistic to please their employers.  

Secondly, in this case “intellectual prostitutes” serves as a blanket term meant to cover a wide range of diverse Nigerian people, among whom numbers one of my favourite 21st Century Nigerians and his name is Auwal Musa Rafsanjani . He and his NGO The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre are doing very valuable work and of course, in his right mind Brother Auwal Musa Rafsanjani would not betray his country his people and his Faith by trying to please some Islamophobic people who want to spur their Crusader spirit by lying that there’s an ongoing ”Genocide of Nigerian Christians “

It’s difficult to imagine Donald Trump would voluntarily face a firing squad or agree to debate Brother Obama at this precious time - about anything - or accept an invitation to be grilled at Piers Morgan Uncensored - an invitation to be given the unfettered opportunity to explain to the curious world at large and to his wonderful American people ( the greatest people on earth) about the amicable relations he once had with his dearly departed buddy Jeffrey  Epstein and with Epstein’s sidekick Ghislaine Maxwell . 

No Sir, Trump would never put himself in that kind of danger, because he knows all too well that the fallout from such an extended grilling - Trump in the hot seat ( I almost wrote “Trump in  the electric chair”) - everybody in America would be talking about it , and Trump would then definitely be toast. But have no fear, Trump is wise, he is familiar with this piece of advice : “One must never stand in a place of danger expecting a miracle  to protect the faithful”

Baba Kadiri has made the unassailable point that given the kind of reputation that Piers Morgan Uncensored has - and the sort of dodgy character that Piers Morgan himself is, (just check out the kinds of hot water he has been in and out of with the sleazy tabloid known as The Sun , and the controversies that continue to swirl around him as a journalist , even if the Nigerian Government is  or was desperate to clarify the situation in Nigeria  before American “smart bombs” and drones and maybe boots start to swing into action, it’s still obviously a high risk enterprise for any Nigerian Government spokesperson to appear on Piers Morgan's no holds barred and everything is allowed uncensored show to face / be battered by a battery of hostile questions and comments from people who are only there to shoot down, damage and destroy whatever credibility such a spokesperson would be trying to establish - a good textbook  illustration of “where angels fear to tread”. 

So someone else - an unofficial / non-official Nigerian or other apologist / Mr Explainer   could have accepted the invitation or invited himself to participate in that show.

Having said that, since he would not be acting in an official government capacity which has its own limitations and the kinds of behavioural restrains  that go with certain official positions, in terms of what I suppose the likes of Per Roguey would baptise / pompously refer to as ”linguistic flexibility”  - and of course Piers Morgan Uncensored is not the kind of venue to show off any colonial or post-colonial inferiority or superiority complex  by wanting to teach Harlow College's Piers Morgan who can afford to be “rude” and really sassy, to want to teach and impress him ( Robinson Crusoe) with some official Buckingham Palace Big Grammar. Even I wouldn’t be impressed. It simply doesn’t work that way, and the former Prince Andrew who has now been degraded  to merely comporting himself as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor wouldn’t be impressed either - like His Imperial Majesty Emperor Donald J Trump was impressed when he said so condescendingly to the President of Liberia, "You speak good English - Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?”

 I have updated myself with my man’s latest Facebook entries on this topical subject matter of the alleged Genocide in Ngeria and I think that he -  Femi Fani-Kayode  - apart from setting the record straight could handle it  with some of the required counteroffensive spunk  and chutzpah on Piers Morgan Uncensored -  just as Malcolm X and James Baldwin could have handled the likes of Spiro Agnew ( Republican)  and George Wallace (Democrat)  

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

FFF is likely to be good for that task as you suggest.

I wonder why its considered offensive to wonder aloud about the command of English of a person whose native language is not English, even if the official language of  the person's country is English.

Nigerians, for example, spread themselves between Standard English, pidgin English and their native languages, with various levels of competence in each of them.

If Trump were to speak any African language, even at a basic level, I would be impressed.

Thanks

Toyin

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[Cornelius Hamelberg]

Amended. 

Peoples’ Planet

Stockholm

29th November, 2025

Oluwatoyin, 

Language, Truth, and Logic should be a good place to start. Or perhaps, a little earlier with The Frankfurt School or earlier still with King Leopold’s Ghost ? 

Today, English is the dominant world language. I just listened to Pope Leo XIV, the most communicative Pope, live and direct - speaking beautiful English . I’m so glad

Yes,  please feel free to blame it all on colonialism. It's a sad & sorry part of what colonialism has done to you and me , and to all of us, from the hoary Wole Soyinka aspiring to an appointment as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, through  necessity being the mother of invention , case in point, the resistance spearheaded by mother-tongue ideologues & mother-tongue warriors such as Ngugi Wa Thiong’o expressing what is not obvious to some of Africa’s mentally colonised uncle toms who are forever either genuflecting, doing sujud and saying “yessah massa” to you know who, or blowing big grammar to Pa Michael Imoudu, thankfully, the radical stream culminating most recently in Ojogbon’s strong advocacy : We must hold on to our languages....and we had better start writing and preserving some of our histories and memoirs in our indigenous languages or we might end up joining the ranks of some African people who future historians may claim never existed, didn’t leave a trace. I arrived at this sober understanding whilst listening to this:

The 7 IMPOSSIBLE Biblical Characters Who Never Existed 

and this : 

Harvard Philologist Says "No Historical Jesus"

Déjà vu :

We’ve been here before, many times, and once more let me cite the opening of  J. M. Coetzee’s Nobel Lecture :

He and His Man

But to return to my new companion. I was greatly delighted with him, and made it my business to teach him everything that was proper to make him useful, handy, and helpful; but especially to make him speak, and understand me when I spoke; and he was the aptest scholar there ever was.
— Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

Futuristically, not “prophetically” speaking, the ethnic chest-beating chauvinism, in alphabetical order, in time, the distinctly Bariba, Beni, Edo, Efik,  Hausa, Fulani, Ibibio, Idoma, Igbo, Ijaw, Kalabari, Kanuri,Tiv, Yourba, could subside, subsumed by an overarching chest-beating nationalism (Nigerianism) - Nigeria First etc. the x tribes of Nigeria  welded into one mighty indivisible nation under the one and only Almighty God of the Universe

About the chest-beating, well, what do you think about this piece of braggadocio : 

D Excellent :  Biafran Currency Introduced

Futuristically  - not prophetically speaking, the residual atmosphere that will result from the future AI dominance is imminent and I daresay our descendants, some of whom (for lack of a better word) - I almost thought “for lack of a better world”) in time, world without end, amen, some of our descendants could be ”humanoids “ living in some new, as yet unforeseen world language communities of distinct AI thought constructs. (As Patrick Wilmot famously said in that Nigerian Guardian article back in 1981, before he went underground in Kano, never mind all the song and dance business for which Nigeria is famous , Nigerians must learn to dance to  "mathematical rhythms" and he wasn’t talking about Johann Sebastian Bach…

Once again that rough guide to what the British say, what the British mean .How many times hasn’t some postcolonial Brit or American told you that you speak “Good English” ? Well, English is the most commonplace language; more than half the world speaks Good English (the rest speak broken English, bad English or no English) 

You “wonder why it's considered offensive to wonder aloud about the command of English of a person whose native language is not English, even if the official language of the person's country is English.”

Does anyone think it’s offensive? A criminal offence, maybe? Certainly not, especially if it’s Donald Trump ostensibly complimenting Liberia’s Joseph Boakai, topped by a rhetorical question ”Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?”- to which I’m sure Trump was half expecting Elder Boakai to blurt out “I was taught to speak so beautifully at Kansas State University, one of the greatest American Universities, Sah!” 

I wasn't only making a general or an abstract statement. With your keen eye for theatre and for context, I’m sure that you'll agree with me that Trump's well-deserved compliments were delivered after the other non-English-speaking African presidents' deliveries through translation and furthermore what Liberia’s President said must have sounded like great American music to Trump’s ears.

Just in case you didn’t witness the whole show live and direct on TV, here’s a transcript of the meeting with the representatives of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal - and the Trump-Boakai section: 

President Joseph Boakai of Liberia. Thank you, Mr. President. We—first, let me congratulate you for your recent celebration of your 249 anniversary. We did in Liberia, at your embassy.

Mr. President, we thank you for this opportunity to be here. Liberia is a longtime friend of the United States, and we believe in your policy of making America great again. And we also go a long way with you at your—in your diplomacy that has to do with economic development and commercial friendship.

Liberia has a lot of minerals. And one of the things we ask, as good friends a long time, is the opportunity to do a survey of our minerals.

And also, we are committed to peace. And we've been very lucky within our region. We had a country that've had a series of democratic elections, and our country had been cooling down. And also, we want to encourage American involvement in the investment in Liberia.

President Trump. Yes.

President Boakai. I would like to see that happen. We want to work with the United States in peace and security within the region because we are committed to that, and we just want to thank you so much for this opportunity.

President Trump. Well, thank you. And such good English.

President Boakai. Yes. [Laughter]

President Trump. It's beautiful. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated? Where?

President Boakai. Yes, sir.

President Trump. In Liberia?

President Boakai. Yes, sir.

President Trump. Well, that's very interesting. It's beautiful English.

President Boakai. Sure.

President Trump. I have people at this table who can't speak nearly as well.

President Boakai. Very good, sir. Thank—[laughter]—

President Trump. They come from everywhere. So thank you very much.

Please.

As you know, when it comes to Trump, well Trump is different. Trump is special, Trump is a special case. An Afghan shot two national guards and this resulted in Trump spontaneously decreeing that henceforth there will be no more emigrations to the United States from “third world countries” ( “turd world” joked one of the Naipauls.) Just imagine if the nutter who shot the two national guards, o r the nutter who took out Charlie Kirk or Thomas Crooks who tried to take out Trump had been  - God forbid - a Nigerian and a Muslim as well ! Good grief. In addition to declaring ALL NIGERIANS  persona non grata forever, by now he & his war cabinet would have been putting some finishing touches to his monstrous invasion plans for the ( God forbid)  “fast, vicious, and sweet” bombardment of Nigeria…     

And, by the way, in Sierra Leone Creole / Krio / patois/ Broken/ pidgin, when a person makes a grammatical mistake in the spoken language - back then,” The Queen’s English” they’d say “ ee shoot” and if it was  a big mistake they said,  “ee bomb ! ”