Opinion
OPINION: Who Created Nigeria, God Or Lugard?
By: Emmanuel Onwubiko
This piece is not theological in nature but a direct response to the statement often rendered by political office holders in Nigeria each time certain agitations are raised for a fundamental restructuring or overhauling of the structure of the polity.
These persons defending Nigeria as a divine product are those who profits from the dysfunctionality that Nigeria has been made to become by politicians and their military allies through a cocktail of corruption and economic brigandage of Nigeria’s commonwealth.
Of course the bulk of those proponents of restructure or self determination are persons who feel that they are treated with the short end of the stick by those who have cornered political powers through hook or crooked means.
The latest sermon came from the speaker of the Federal house of Representatives Mr. Yakubu Dogara in which he alluded to the claim that Nigeria is a creation of God even as he dismissed the agitation for restructuring of the country as a product of some minds who have not sufficiently appreciated God’s desire for Nigeria’s unity.
Dogara’s house of representatives is seen as one of the main obstacles to the institutionalization of good governance.
Most Nigerians see the legislators as few privileged Nigerians who are reaping where they did not sow.
But this is not the perspective of this reflection nor is it a verdict on the apparent ethical deficit of the political class.
I’m concerned with debunking the error of judgment by Dogara and others who ascribed divine creation to the emergence of Nigeria.
Dogara, a lawyer by training seems to be responding to the very latest public intervention of the Nobel laurette in literature professor Wole Soyinka who had rendered an opinion that Nigeria as a nation is not cast in stone in such a way that it cannot be negotiated by the various component units that make up the whole.
Professor Soyinka was clearly responding to the cacophony of opinions by mostly reactionaries who believed that the groundswell of calls fro restructuring of Nigeria are generic product of anarchists bent on destroying Nigeria.
Soyinka, while fielding questions from students of a publicly built academy in Bayelsa state recently and also from a renowned poet, Mr. Odia Ofiemun, on whether Nigeria should break up or not, insisted that such an argument sounded “hypocritical, dogmatic and dictatorial.”
The Nobel laureate said, “My response is basically a plea; we must stop confusing or mixing up the argument. When people come up with the question of whether to break up or not to, it always sounds hypocritical, dogmatic and dictatorial. And for the statement that the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable, that, for me, is a falsity.
“Anything is negotiable. The right of people to determine their future is what is non-negotiable. Most nations came into being through negotiations. Sometimes, when people say negotiate, what they really mean is to restructure. What the argument or question should be is: should Nigeria break up? And my answer to that is no.
“But please, don’t tell me that Nigeria as it stands is non-negotiable. For me, this is a fallacy. The nation has got to be negotiated. Negotiation includes ensuring that there is no marginalization. Negotiation has to do with control of resources; it has to do with restructuring the nation in a way in which its components, its constituents are not feeding a bloated center to the detriment of their own development.
“So, Nigeria is negotiable. So, what we should say, the language we should use is, what are you willing to sacrifice, what efforts are you willing to make to ensure that Nigeria remains intact? That is the citizen question.”
In his direct response to the time -tested submission of Soyinka, rather than spend quality time to reflect before making his intervention, the Nigeria’s speaker of parliament Mr. Yakubu Dogara, a very young Nigerian, decided to adopt the intellectually lazy approach of holding on to the fallacy that Nigeria as a nation state was the creative work of God.
Hear him: “Those who think Nigeria is a mistake, it may be because they don’t know the purpose. But if you want to know the purpose of a thing, you have to go back to the manual, and who puts the manual together? It’s the manufacturer, so I would challenge them to go back to the manufacturer of Nigeria, who is God, so that we can get the manual for Nigeria.
“If we were a mistake, maybe during the first civil war, this country would have disintegrated but God decided to keep this country one and God has never made a mistake,” he stated.
The Speaker argued that for the country to have survived the civil war means that there is a purpose for the nation, and that “until the destiny of this nation is realized, nothing will happen to Nigeria.”
While acknowledging that the nation is facing multifaceted challenges, the Speaker urged Nigerians not to relent in offering prayers for the country as according to him, nothing is impossible with God, including Nigeria’s challenges.
“‘For our country, we will never cease to ask that prayers be made, especially collective prayers. We all know the benefits of collective prayers; it is said that whenever two or three of you come together and ask of anything, God will do it.
“‘We know the challenges we face, they are quite enormous challenges, they are very difficult, but they are not insurmountable. With God on our side, we will surmount them, and the only way we can do that is when we have the benefit of the wisdom of God; wisdom means application of knowledge.”
Although the Nigerian speaker spoke within the premises of a church during what is called a thanksgiving service, he nevertheless committed a grave intellectual error known as fallacy of over generalization.
There’s no law forbidden Christian worshippers from engaging in critical thinking.
I do not want to accuse speaker Dogara of committing heresy or a sacrilege, but I believe he got it all wrong by swimming along the incredible tide of illogicality of the ‘God theory’ in the matter of the political creation of Nigeria as a nation state in 1914.
Is God a politician? Not at all.
Aristotle made us know that only human being is a political animal by nature.
Speaker Dogara is wrong because the historical persona behind the nomenclature Nigeria and behind the coupling together of the various component parts to arrive at a geographical expression (apologies to late Chief Obafemi Awolowo)is no other person than the British colonial overlord called Frederick John Dealtry Luggard, first Baron Luggard (1858-1945).
This man is clearly identified in the official biography as a British imperialist and colonial administrator in Africa of the pre-independence era.
Does it mean that Dogara and all those political office holders who preach this political heresy of Nigeria being the creation of the Divine force not knowledgeable about the political history of Nigeria?
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Please let him and others do just a simple research on the founder of Nigeria Mr. Lugard of Britain so as to cure themselves of this class heresy. I have undertaken to conduct a very brief historical research on the personality of Lugard who founded Nigeria in 1914.
As recorded in his official biography, Mr. Frederick Lugard was born on Jan. 22, 1858, of missionary parents in India. He attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, England.
He obtained a commission in 1878 and returned to India, where he participated in the Afghan War of 1879-1880.
In 1885 he accompanied the Indian contingent to the Sudan, joining the Suakin campaign to relieve Khartoum; in 1886 he joined military operations in Burma.
In 1887 Lugard returned to England, but unable to resume his commission for medical reasons and despairing over an unhappy love affair, he set out for the east coast of Africa.
In 1888 he arrived in Mozambique, where he entered the employ of the African Lakes Company, for whom he commanded a mission to Lake Nyasa to relieve a trading station besieged by Arab slave traders.
In 1890 he went to Mombasa, where he was employed by the Imperial British East Africa Company to open a trade route to Buganda. Lugard remained in the interior of East Africa for 2 years, where, through a combination of diplomatic skill and military force, he established the suzerainty of the company over the region of present-day Uganda. During this time the company decided to withdraw from Buganda, a decision Lugard chose to ignore.
He returned to England and launched a political campaign designed to convince the government to annex Uganda. In England, Lugard was criticized for his activities in Buganda, particularly for his treatment of French missionaries. Therefore, in defense of himself and in advocacy of his imperial vision, he published his first book, The Rise of Our East African Empire (1893), an autobiographical account of his activities in Nyasaland and Uganda.
In 1894 Lugard visited West Africa for the first time. Employed by the Royal Niger Company, he led an expedition to forestall a French effort to establish a position on the lower Niger River. After a brief tour to Bechuanaland for the British West Charterland Company, he returned to the Niger in 1897 as commissioner for the hinterland of Nigeria and commander of the West African Frontier Force, a military contingent designed to aid the Royal Niger Company in defending its territorial claims.
When the charter of the Royal Niger Company was revoked in 1900, the British government assumed administrative responsibility for former territories of the company, and Lugard became high commissioner for Northern Nigeria. At that time, Northern Nigeria existed in name only, since the company had never extended any form of administration beyond the banks of the Niger.
During his tenure Lugard laid the foundations of British rule in the North, first establishing British sovereignty by conquest of the Moslem states which had resisted alien domination and then by developing the forms of administration whereby the British would rule.
In 1906 Lugard resigned as high commissioner and the following year accepted an appointment as governor of Hong Kong, where he remained until 1911. Then, in 1912, he returned to Nigeria as governor of both the Northern and Southern protectorates, charged with amalgamating the two territories into a single unit.
Lugard’s plans for amalgamation provided for the extension into the Southern Protectorate of the policy of indirect rule which he had developed in the North. Indirect rule was designed to allow for the administration of colonized peoples through the agency of indigenous institutions.
Historians recorded that although indirect rule was not uniformly effective among peoples of very diverse traditional institutions, Lugard pushed hard for its adoption and as a guide published his Political Memoranda, earlier directives he had circulated in establishing the Northern administration. By 1919, when Lugard retired as governor general, Nigeria had been set well on its way to becoming a unified territory administratively… his wife, the former Flora Shaw, was the author of A Tropical Dependency, a history of Nigeria.(See http://biography. yourdictionary.com/frederick- john-dealtry-lugard).
Two distinguished legal minds Yinka Fasakin and L.O Alimi also authored an opinion which provides a historical preamble to underscore the fact that the nation state known as Nigeria is a human creation of the British overlords.
In the researched article titled: “The continuing debate of systems of government and good governance ideals-the best model for Africa, ”published in the book titled: “Globalization, National development and the law, “edited by Professors D.A Guobadia; and Epiphany Azinge (SAN),the duo laid out a very convincing empirical evidence to show the historical context in which Nigeria as a nation state came about.
Hear them: “Over the years, countries in Africa have experimented with various systems of government in search of good governance for their citizens. Various countries in the continent after independence from COLONIAL OVERLORDS, moved from the parliamentary and Westminster model of government to the military system of government. Many of them are presently coming back to democratic governance”.
Also,in a piece by Max Boot,titled “origins of United States Indepence defamed by here and now,” the author was clear that even the United States of America whose independence status was heralded by a church bell,there are clear historical evidence that America was created by the people and not by some Divine Being.
The author wrote thus: “On July 4, 1776, church bells rang out across Philadelphia. The Continental Congress had approved a Declaration of Independence to inform the world that the goal of the colonial revolt, which had begun more than a year earlier, was not mere autonomy within the British Empire. Rather, the rebels were seeking the creation of an independent republic the likes of which the world had never seen.”
“Their demands were couched in then-novel language of natural rights; “all men are created equal”, they wrote, and “they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”.
The authors of this revolutionary text warned all governments to respect these rights or else face the consequences: “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”
So Dogara and all others who think that Nigeria was created by God should go back and dust up the history books to appreciate the historical fact that it was one Mr. Lugard a British who created Nigeria.
I’m not sure if Speaker Dogara has not committed the fallacy of knowing that since Frederick Lugard attaches the title of a Lord, it is therefore conceivable to ascribe some forms of divine authority or mandate to his political activities for his then home British empire in coupling up Nigeria.
– Emmanuel Onwubiko is Head of Human rights writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA). He blogs @ www.emmanuelonwubiko.com and www.huriwa@blogspot.com.
Op–ed pieces and contributions are the opinions of the writers only and do not represent the opinions of Oriental Times
Mascherano
July 19, 2017 at 7:57 pm
Fredrick Lord Lugard created Nigeria, God can not be author of Confusion. after warning in book of 2Corinthian 6:14 .”Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?” who are the unbelievers to Christians Muslim are unbelievers , same with Muslim to christian , In the country you see Christian and Muslim sitting ( Senetor, House Assemble ,etc) together making decision that has not been working since the creation . Most christian in the midst of Muslim Terr en find it difficult to serve God , Some are even killed in the process , My bible say s that every thing God created are good . Nigeria was created out of interest of the colonial master. with out considering what will come out in feature . a nation that did nt last for 10years after independence war brook out. to be candid Nigeria is too Big for a person to rule with the level of our intellectual and mentality. weather is convenient for Any body or not Nigeria is united because of self interest of the majority and Politians
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obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:00 am
Lunatic Dog Lugard and hotpant Flora Shaw the prostitute.
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 10:59 am
Lunatic Dig Lugar’s and hotpant Flora Shaw the prostitute.
Murray Attah
July 18, 2017 at 1:15 pm
Count God out of who created Nigeria .How many times did Lugard pray or asked from God before joining Nigeria together.
Samuel Ebene
July 18, 2017 at 1:10 pm
the evil man lugard created evil nigeria.
Maji Danladi
July 18, 2017 at 12:12 pm
Who created Lugard? God the Author of every things
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:02 am
Shut your gworo mouth,bokoharam.
Odii Sylvester Ogochukwu
July 18, 2017 at 11:43 am
blood sucking lugard
Idris Saliu Adeyanju
July 18, 2017 at 11:37 am
GOD Created Nigeria
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:03 am
Bokoharam is talking
Idris Saliu Adeyanju
July 18, 2017 at 11:36 am
GOD Created Nigeria
Ibrahim Yahaya
July 18, 2017 at 10:36 am
who created Lugard, and his wisdom.
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:05 am
Witch Elizabeth and Bokoharam
Thankgod Asuqwo
July 18, 2017 at 10:10 am
A white man came frm Scotland into Africa and said you, you and you frm today u are Nigerian all d animal jump up and said heheh we are Nigeria, while d are bamboo and monkey.
Chukwuebuka Chukwuebuka
July 18, 2017 at 10:04 am
Nigeria is man made, country like Israel, syria, somalia, ethopia was created by God.
Nkemjika O Ogbonnaya
July 18, 2017 at 9:20 am
animals in human skin lugard!
Jonathan Bolarinwa
July 18, 2017 at 9:18 am
EUROPEANS BUT GOD KNEW ABOUT IT
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:07 am
Shut up ode ode mmanu
David Ifeanyi
July 18, 2017 at 8:24 am
Devil who came in human form
Sunny Okonofua
July 18, 2017 at 7:58 am
,who is the dumb ass idiot asking this foolish question? Ever heard of Genesis 1:1about creation.
Obi Sunny
July 18, 2017 at 8:39 am
mr gullible brain washed stooge,did the chapter and verse in the book of gensis told u that God created nigeria?-#mtcheeew
Sunny Okonofua
July 18, 2017 at 8:44 am
Mr busybody where is nigeria. In another world??Some people just want to talk.
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:09 am
Keep quiet you fool.
Ibeawuchi Ndubuisi Paul
July 18, 2017 at 7:34 am
Lugard. Niger mean dark/black, area mean territory, that’s why niger republic people called Fulani is strongly in control of this territory. Tufiakwa for darkness area.
Confi Emmanuel
July 18, 2017 at 7:33 am
The evil Lugard.
John Iheanacho Ezugwu
July 18, 2017 at 6:40 am
Satanic Lugard
Odinaka Udeh
July 18, 2017 at 6:36 am
Evil british
Chris John
July 18, 2017 at 6:26 am
GOD was not involve in creation of nigeria and that’s the major cause of the problems
Ndidi Chukwuma Chukwuka
July 18, 2017 at 6:20 am
simple answer and we shouting God, that’s how people fail exam. I too know. Is lugard jareh with the help of his girlfriend
Marczito Odan Aboh
July 18, 2017 at 6:12 am
Who created lugard nd nigeria?
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:12 am
Shut up you drunk.
Ajao Babatunde
July 18, 2017 at 6:03 am
God created Nigeria through Lugard
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:17 am
Imbecile,shut your ewedu mouth.Anu ohia.
Chigozie Okafo
July 18, 2017 at 6:01 am
See the Devils that created the zoo
Okematic Biafra
July 18, 2017 at 5:58 am
MURDEROUS BRITISH DEVILS
Okenwa Bestman Jnr
July 18, 2017 at 5:57 am
Hmmm
Fakeye Idowu
July 18, 2017 at 3:28 am
flora
Chuks Peter
July 18, 2017 at 2:47 am
Flora shaw wife of Lugard
Willfred O Osiwu
July 18, 2017 at 2:10 am
Nigeria was lugards ideology
Japheth Odoh
July 18, 2017 at 1:43 am
God cannot create evil
Clifford Z. Miri
July 17, 2017 at 11:54 pm
Who created Lugard
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:20 am
Witch Elizabeth and Ahmadu Bello the hater of Biafrans.
Matthew Dunu
July 17, 2017 at 11:46 pm
Alhaji lord lugard. You think say i no know
Prince Ugo Uzonta
July 17, 2017 at 11:43 pm
It was a prostitute that named it.her name was flora Shaw. A girlfriend to sugardaddy lord luggard when she was drunk
Andy Victor
July 17, 2017 at 10:57 pm
????? y asking ?????
Amadi John
July 17, 2017 at 10:46 pm
Lugard of Course
Princewill Iloegbunam
July 17, 2017 at 10:31 pm
Lord Lugard of course
Charlie Achomrough
July 17, 2017 at 10:29 pm
Slave master called Lugard.
Peter Jideofor Amechina
July 17, 2017 at 10:23 pm
Man made
Chinedu Ani
July 17, 2017 at 10:23 pm
Lugard of course
Obinna Obuzor
July 17, 2017 at 10:20 pm
Lugard is hausa FOOLanis god. The people that can not reason like human being
Tochi Boiy
July 17, 2017 at 10:18 pm
Devil and His wickedness
Uzochukwudimma Agubuike
July 17, 2017 at 10:18 pm
Nigeria is a zoo created by lugard where hausa fulani Uncircumcised pigs dwell.
Lucky Willy
July 17, 2017 at 10:15 pm
D God almighty that i knw has nothing to do with d goddess of river called mami water, its d uncircumcised Briton Lord Luggard n his Ashowo girl friend n that is why nothing will ever work in this country nigeria.
Nwojiji Andrew
July 17, 2017 at 10:09 pm
Lugard.
Clifford Z. Miri
July 17, 2017 at 11:53 pm
Who created Lugard?
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 11:26 am
Your father Buhari,idiot.
Okey Nnam
July 17, 2017 at 10:08 pm
This very question should be directed to Dogara and his co national Assemblies
Kennedy Ikemefule
July 17, 2017 at 10:03 pm
Its luggard cos of business gains…
Fredrick Chinoso
July 17, 2017 at 9:57 pm
Experimentation of Britain by lugard and florashior
Joseph Daniel
July 17, 2017 at 9:56 pm
Those who keep mentioning God as responsible for the creation of Nigeria do not know God.Nigeria was brought together my an evil man called lugard, by an evil country called Britain, the name Nigeria was given by lugard’s girl friend not even his wife after they were both high on alcoholic wine and the name Nigeria is satanic ,it means darkness.
How can a sane man say God is behind this?
What was godly about the invasion of Nigeria by the british ?
And what is godly about British meddling in Nigeria’s present day affairs?
Those who say God created nigeria can as well say God is behind the adoption of christians girls by boko haram and lslamic clerics and force them into islam and marriage.
A country that can not boast of a good leader 100 years after it’s creation can not be a creation of God.
Do we know how many innocent blood that have been spilled in this country?And they are crying for justice on a daily basis.
Did God creat Nigeria so that His children will be dominated and be killed on a daily basis?
There is so much injustice in Nigeria and God hates injustice.
Iyke Ajagu
July 17, 2017 at 9:56 pm
Thief lord lugard n his galfrnd
Asuenfa Deima
July 17, 2017 at 9:55 pm
Nigeria is surviving because of corruption and sharing of oil monies. The northern parasites own, control, steal and share Niger Delta people’s oil and gas monies at whim because of corruption. Remove oil monies from the hands of the northern parasites and stop sharing oil monies in Abuja, Nigeria will collapse and disintegrate naturally and peacefully without collateral damage.
Therefore, the fact is that Nigeria is boiling very fast and furiously per-second-cube and that’s why it can’t stand the test of time any longer, because the British and Shell will definitely fail one day to forcefully keep Nigerians together due to their insatiable selfish interest in Niger Delta people’s oil and gas wealth.
The only solution to Nigerian problems now is that the northern parasites should jettison their wickedness and greed for Niger Delta people’s oil and gas wealth and accept the practice of true federalism to allow equity, justice and peace to reign supreme or peaceful break up of the country so as to avoid imminent implosion and explosion of the country.
Onyebuchi T Nwuzor
July 17, 2017 at 9:53 pm
Lugard the thief
Kingsley Asinobi Ononuju
July 17, 2017 at 9:51 pm
na Lu lu,s project
Daniel Chimezie
July 17, 2017 at 9:51 pm
Nigeria is a fake lugardic contraption made to last for hundred years only, but was made to pass hundred years by the hausa fulanis and their yoruba slaves.
Daniel Chimezie
July 17, 2017 at 9:50 pm
Nigeria is a fake lugardic contraption made to last for hundred years only, but was made to pass hundred years by the hausa fulanis.
Isaac N. C. Isaac
July 17, 2017 at 9:50 pm
Anybody bringing God into the matter, is an animal. The history is vividly clear, how Lord Lugard craved out the areas and his prostitute girl friend name his that imagination, Niger-Area (Nigeria).
Udeh Olisah
July 17, 2017 at 9:45 pm
Jude Ugom
July 17, 2017 at 9:43 pm
Lugard and his ashawo girl(flora shaw)
Anibiafra Umoren
July 17, 2017 at 9:41 pm
luguard
Odoh Chinonye Ife-Adigo
July 17, 2017 at 9:37 pm
And,Am hapi bcz nigeria hz just been destroyed by a simple truth.Brain work.
Ali Isah Bununu
July 17, 2017 at 9:34 pm
Who created that Lugard???
Itz Mentor
July 17, 2017 at 9:33 pm
God create everything but devil design nigeria
Auwal Usman
July 17, 2017 at 9:32 pm
God creat L.nigeria
Julius Inalegwu Akpa
July 17, 2017 at 9:29 pm
God did not create any country in this world. Every country has different groups of people as its members including the U. K
Ihezuo Nwabugo
July 17, 2017 at 9:29 pm
Nigeria was not created but formed by lord lugard and the …………….!!!!
Wein Billy
July 17, 2017 at 9:24 pm
Populace. Agreement na agreement. Was the name imposed?
Chris Ejimofor
July 17, 2017 at 9:23 pm
Lugard and his mistress. a.k.a international whore
Lawrence Ayobami Akanni
July 17, 2017 at 9:23 pm
Buhari and Osinbajo
Oparaocha Chikaodi K
July 17, 2017 at 9:21 pm
A prostitute, the girlfriend of Frederick L
Maiyaki Audu
July 17, 2017 at 9:20 pm
Ur father and your foolish mother. Onyeshi
Anyanwu Judith
July 17, 2017 at 9:20 pm
Lord lugard created nigeria,lugard is the lord of nigerians
Ilueme Emeka
July 17, 2017 at 9:19 pm
British did, for their selfish interest.
Prince Sky Prince Don
July 17, 2017 at 9:19 pm
Lugard gal frnd dat create nigeria
Eric Amaechic Eze
July 17, 2017 at 9:16 pm
The right word is that British colonies Nigeria and gave its name….no human that create Africa…we are in existence before the British…but the truth is that, the British is the root of Nigeria problem… Not Biafra…
George Mbaike
July 17, 2017 at 9:15 pm
Evil lugard and his girlfriend
Nasir Ibrahim
July 17, 2017 at 9:13 pm
Have you seen the effect of alcohol and hard drugs?
Aso Chigozie
July 17, 2017 at 9:20 pm
How bros
Nasir Ibrahim
July 17, 2017 at 9:29 pm
Aso Chigozie, how can a rational and right thinking person would even think of asking this nonsense question! Is there other creator of everything except God Almighty? This question actually is nonsensical.
Joseph Daniel
July 17, 2017 at 9:12 pm
Those who keep mentioning God as responsible for the creation of Nigeria do not know God.Nigeria was brought together my an evil man called lugard, by an evil country called Britain, the name Nigeria was given by lugard’s girl friend not even his wife after they were both high on alcoholic wine and the name Nigeria is satanic ,it means darkness.
How can a sane man say God is behind this?
What was godly about the invasion of Nigeria by the british ?
And what is godly about British meddling in Nigeria’s present day affairs?
Those who say God created nigeria can as well say God is behind the adoption of christians girls by boko haram and lslamic clerics and force them into islam and marriage.
A country that can not boast of a good leader 100 years after it’s creation can not be a creation of God.
James Ogbodu
July 17, 2017 at 9:16 pm
Hnnnmmmm…you are right.
Solomon Nkuma
July 17, 2017 at 9:37 pm
Go ahead good points (gbammmmmm) bravo
Hifedayo Hibukun
July 17, 2017 at 9:11 pm
God is d creator of all universe
Michael Nwachi
July 17, 2017 at 9:10 pm
Evil lugard
Ezekiel Okereke Manfredo
July 17, 2017 at 9:05 pm
Its dt animal called Lugard cus God can not create a typical #Zoo and call it a country.
Chukwuebuka Ofoma
July 17, 2017 at 9:05 pm
Na ekperima called lugard
Okwu Dike
July 17, 2017 at 9:04 pm
Artificial country created by lugard and named by his bitch called flora show.
Bigman Demo
July 17, 2017 at 9:02 pm
Nigeria
Eric Amaechic Eze
July 17, 2017 at 9:00 pm
God created all…but lugard gave Nigeria it name…
Fidelis Ibegbunam Obiajulu
July 17, 2017 at 9:00 pm
Lugard and not God
Martin Aghanya
July 17, 2017 at 8:59 pm
The British fool called Lugard.
But Biafra is my homeland
Christian Onyebuchi
July 17, 2017 at 8:59 pm
Selling indos by luggard
Joseph Daniel
July 17, 2017 at 8:58 pm
Those who keep mentioning God as responsible for the creation of Nigeria do not know God.Nigeria was brought together my an evil man called lugard, by an evil country called Britain, the name Nigeria was given by lugard’s girl friend not even his wife after they were both high on alcoholic wine and the name Nigeria is satanic ,it means darkness.
How can a sane man say God is behind this?
What was godly about the invasion of Nigeria by the british ?
And what is godly about British meddling in Nigeria’s present day affairs?
Those who say God created nigeria can as well say God is behind the adoption of christians girls by boko haram and lslamic clerics and force them into islam and marriage.
A country that can not boast of a good leader 100 years after it’s creation can not be a creation of God.
Morris Nonso Madike
July 17, 2017 at 8:58 pm
No need.This is the answer you seek
Eze Junior
July 17, 2017 at 8:57 pm
It z ordinary criminal human being called him self lugard
Mark Chuks
July 17, 2017 at 8:57 pm
Lugard the thwart.
Christian Ibeh
July 17, 2017 at 8:56 pm
U no get time
ThankGod Kc Ibe
July 17, 2017 at 8:55 pm
Ordinary looseguard
Chinemeze Okafor
July 17, 2017 at 8:54 pm
Lugard and his gal friend
Rex Emeka Nathan
July 17, 2017 at 8:54 pm
YOU ARABIAN DESERT ALLAH god did not creat the heaven and t he earth.so they must perish under the heaven.
Amabiri Ene-ebibolade Alexander
July 17, 2017 at 8:50 pm
Lugard .is like ll
Rudeboy Emeka
July 17, 2017 at 8:47 pm
Mr drugard lugard
Prince Hail-Sellasie
July 17, 2017 at 8:47 pm
Flora Shaw did not have issue ‘thats children’ and Lord Lugard did not have children too and because Lord Fredrick Lugard has evil agenda against South that is why God purnish him…. Flora Shaw died of deceased….
Okey Innocent
July 17, 2017 at 8:46 pm
Thief lugard create the zoo and her girl friend named the zoo
Akachi Eze
July 17, 2017 at 8:46 pm
devil created zoo Nigeria
Paul Ezuo
July 17, 2017 at 8:46 pm
The drunkard lugard.
Osazuwa Gabriel Ndudi
July 17, 2017 at 8:45 pm
LUGARD THE SON OF LUCIFER
Mujittafah Surajo
July 17, 2017 at 8:42 pm
the one who create lugard and also he is the one who create everything
Abubakar Mohammed
July 17, 2017 at 8:40 pm
Allah
Freedom Abia
July 17, 2017 at 8:40 pm
Frederic lugard
Prince Macedon Nwa Ezeja
July 17, 2017 at 8:40 pm
My grandfather did
Aliyu Abubakar
July 17, 2017 at 8:38 pm
He who creates Lugard and you create Nigeria!
MB Yazeed Abbare
July 17, 2017 at 8:38 pm
ask ojukwu
Liadi Abass
July 17, 2017 at 8:38 pm
George Goldie, who played a major role in founding Nigeria, placed a curse on anyone who attempts to write his biography.
Nnachi Oge
July 17, 2017 at 8:37 pm
Stupid Lugard!
Hassan Oguta
July 17, 2017 at 8:37 pm
God created Nigeria, Lugard and other oyibo people shaped Nigeria .
Victor Chima Onyebuchi
July 17, 2017 at 8:37 pm
frudstar lugard
Ugwu Brendan Onyebuchi
July 17, 2017 at 8:36 pm
Frederick lugard.
Bello Ibrahim Nagogo
July 17, 2017 at 8:36 pm
Stupid question from stupid people
Loveij Mmadu
July 17, 2017 at 8:39 pm
COW PISS DRINKER
Kelechi Mbamalu
July 17, 2017 at 8:40 pm
Stupid comment frm stupid Arecow youth.
Ibrahim Abdulhamid
July 17, 2017 at 8:35 pm
God created the land and the living creatures in it but british put it together and named it Nigeria.
Ekwe Francis
July 17, 2017 at 8:38 pm
And u ar proud to answer de name
Victor Chima Onyebuchi
July 17, 2017 at 8:41 pm
is lugard a prophet,? imam,? herbalist,? native doctor,? economist,? or a soilder? pls answer
Divine Chigozie
July 17, 2017 at 8:33 pm
titled thief lugard.
Ik Brown Brown
July 17, 2017 at 8:31 pm
Zoo to zoo up zoo
Chidiebere Iheke
July 17, 2017 at 8:30 pm
For That Person We De Asked That Question, Who Created U ? Na Ur Mama Or God
Amb Aliu Olalekan Abayomi
July 17, 2017 at 8:29 pm
God created Lugard and Nigeria, Lugard’s wife gave the name “Nigeria”, while some hoodlums gave the name “Biafra”
Divine Chigozie
July 17, 2017 at 8:31 pm
olodo
Victor Chima Onyebuchi
July 17, 2017 at 8:35 pm
God Created Lugard, Lugard Created you and named you a nizorian
Ekwem Aloysius
July 17, 2017 at 8:38 pm
u sed God created Nigeria n lugard but the wife gave the name dat means its not God dat created Nigeria if the wife shud give the name, if it is God lugard shud have been the one to name the name or even God himself. Nigeria is man made n man made do xpire dat is y it has xpired.
Chizoba Kings
July 17, 2017 at 8:29 pm
Lugard the exploitionist!
Dominic Enyinnaya Onu
July 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm
Ganster lugard & his sex mate
Ikenna Ejiofor
July 17, 2017 at 8:26 pm
Lol… Lugard with her prostitute girl friend Flora Shawn.
Emmanuel Archibong
July 17, 2017 at 8:25 pm
Lord lugard
Sea Paddy Man
July 17, 2017 at 8:24 pm
Lugard British criminal
KC Dollar
July 17, 2017 at 8:24 pm
Lugard Lucifer
Chukwuma Ogazi
July 17, 2017 at 8:23 pm
It was lords lugard and his girl friend flora ashawo unda d influence of mkwamiko
Frank Nnadubem
July 17, 2017 at 8:23 pm
Nigeria wasnt on god,s map
Ekwegh Chimaobi
July 17, 2017 at 8:23 pm
Na floxy baby create am, hope you know her? Na lugard asha… be that.
Gibson Okey Okoli
July 17, 2017 at 8:21 pm
The cut and join was done by Lugard
Ugochukwu Ihuefo
July 17, 2017 at 8:20 pm
Man created that country.
Ajah Anayochukwu Kelechukwu
July 17, 2017 at 8:19 pm
Mad British Lugard
Uchemadu Onyekwere
July 17, 2017 at 8:19 pm
We must stop confusing the argument on the negotiability of Nigeria’s unity – Soyinka
Prof. Wole Soyinka, in this Channels Tv video clip said that Nigerian leaders should stop confusing and mixing up the arguments on the negotiability of Nigeria’s unity, saying that every thing is negotiable.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.
com/2017/07/we-must-stop-confusing-the-argument-on-the-negotiability-of-n
igerias-unity-soyinka/
We must stop confusing the argument on the negotiability of Nigeria’s unity – Soyinka – Vanguard
Awa Aso
July 17, 2017 at 8:19 pm
It is your type that calls stealing TAPPING.
Chukwuemeka Sunday Biafran
July 17, 2017 at 8:18 pm
Blood sucker lugard
Nwangwu Eloka
July 17, 2017 at 8:18 pm
Nonsense Luguard
Sunny Ogbonna
July 17, 2017 at 8:18 pm
F. Lugard
Princewel Jose
July 17, 2017 at 8:17 pm
lugard-
Rapheal Ukawanne Johnson
July 17, 2017 at 8:17 pm
Flora Shaw and lugard
Lucky Chinomnso Uwakwe
July 17, 2017 at 8:17 pm
which kind Neco be this.
Who create the lugard? Who create you n ur fada
Godswill Arunsi Ulu
July 17, 2017 at 8:16 pm
For goodness sake, God didn’t create Nigeria as an entity, rather the selfish British government through Lugard did….
Uchman Jesus
July 17, 2017 at 8:16 pm
Lugard Allah
Nwanza Motors Nwanza
July 17, 2017 at 8:15 pm
senseless lugard
Kaycee Vincent
July 17, 2017 at 8:15 pm
Flora Shaw , Lugard’s girlfriend oooo. them use us dey practice oyibo love. coined d name frm Niger_area=Nigeria.
Waribo Ferene Oko Jaja
July 17, 2017 at 8:15 pm
Lugard son of devil
Nath Omonuse
July 17, 2017 at 8:15 pm
IGBOs continue to fool yourselfs,when you are tire you will beg for one Nigeria
Nwabueze Biafra
July 17, 2017 at 8:20 pm
UNITY IS NOT BY FORCE! NIGERIA HAVE EXPIRED
Durugo Clifford
July 17, 2017 at 8:22 pm
You that has not been begin what is your position in Nigeria today
Innocent Olowu
July 17, 2017 at 8:15 pm
lugard and Christine shrew
Tokas Okafor
July 17, 2017 at 8:14 pm
LUGARD CREAT NIZOORIA NOT GOD.
Deborah David
July 17, 2017 at 8:13 pm
Lugad
Kcee Kenedy
July 17, 2017 at 8:13 pm
stupid lugard
Stephen Nwachukwu Egbuo
July 17, 2017 at 8:12 pm
God only creat pafect things, he can’nt creat zoo like nigeria. nigeria was created by fredrick lugard in the year 1914. but God allmighty created Ariwa, Oduduwa and Biafra and that was why they were leaving in peace and will not kill each other.
Odunukwe Anthony
July 17, 2017 at 8:11 pm
God created nigeria but it was assembled and name by luggard
Peter China Ejirika
May 30, 2018 at 8:04 pm
God did not create Nigeria rather Lord Luggard by almagamation defined the Sales Territory of the British Company he worked for but due to low level of literacy Africans misconstrued it as the almagamation of Northern Protectorate and Southern Protectorate terms which were poorly defined. There is no verifiable document that denotes or connotes the Biafran Territory as a part of the Southern Protectorate.
Timothy Wiseness
July 17, 2017 at 8:11 pm
stupid LUGARD.
Prince Chris Bobby
July 17, 2017 at 8:09 pm
LWKMD hahahaha o boy see Question
De Don Govanor
July 17, 2017 at 8:07 pm
LU-LU WHICH MEANS LUCIFER LUGARD
Yehoyaqim Chukwuemeka Iheanyichukwu
July 17, 2017 at 8:06 pm
Satan(Lugard) created the Zoo.The year the Zoo was created brought about the descent of the Devil on Humanity.
It was the same year the World experienced one of its devastating Wars which was The First World War!!
1914-1918
Donmarce Abuchi
July 17, 2017 at 8:06 pm
U ar a fool at 40ty.
Yusuf Musa
July 17, 2017 at 8:06 pm
Stupid question of the day!
Desmond N Dominic
July 17, 2017 at 8:05 pm
@Ajao Babantunde Yes, I agree with you that God is knowledgeable of everything that happens in the world but no all does He approve of. So use your common sense. Luggard created Nigeria for British empire selfish reasons.
Guvnor UC
July 17, 2017 at 8:05 pm
beastial lugard
Obumneke Peace Iheagwu
July 17, 2017 at 8:03 pm
Lugard prostitute girlfriend
Prince Wisdom
July 17, 2017 at 8:03 pm
Sir.lu
Desmond N Dominic
July 17, 2017 at 8:03 pm
Lugggard
Nonso Joseph
July 17, 2017 at 8:02 pm
God
Ajao Babatunde
July 17, 2017 at 8:02 pm
God through Lugard. Nothing happen without God’s knowledge.
Ifeanyi Ezurukam
July 17, 2017 at 8:04 pm
And the US was created by Satan.
koko
July 18, 2017 at 9:00 am
You are worst than an animal in reasoning, so when God created the world, why not commissioning it to human to create?
obinna Ibeawuchi
July 19, 2017 at 10:54 am
Shut up
Nnonyelu Holy Field
July 17, 2017 at 8:02 pm
foolish luguard
Sunday Nwankwo
July 17, 2017 at 8:01 pm
Lugard
Ibrahim Mustapha Salihu
July 17, 2017 at 8:01 pm
These Oriental Times Admin Is Indeed A Fool, How Will You Compare God And Human… God Create All Things
Ifeanyichukwu Madunagu Frank
July 17, 2017 at 8:01 pm
Biafrans demand referendum for biafra now because we can’t continue to live with northern youths terrorist anymore
Okoye Samuel Ugochukwu
July 17, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Useless lugard
Ifeanyichukwu Madunagu Frank
July 17, 2017 at 8:00 pm
It’s the British gangsters agents luggard that created this monster called Niazooria
David Ifeanyi
July 17, 2017 at 8:00 pm
White monkey n wife
John Nwaeze
July 17, 2017 at 8:00 pm
LUGARD’s girl friend.
Unanka Henry
July 17, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Sir lugard
Eke Paul
July 17, 2017 at 7:59 pm
God can not creat zoo for human beings to live in;
Sagacious Sunday Isaiah
July 17, 2017 at 7:59 pm
Lemme see who ll fail dis simple test… Lugard created it.
Felix Gideon
July 17, 2017 at 7:59 pm
lurat
Sunday Oporo
July 17, 2017 at 7:58 pm
lugard
Christopher Ochini
July 17, 2017 at 7:58 pm
Lu
Bernard Udeh
July 17, 2017 at 7:57 pm
Lugard not God
Everestus EZe
July 17, 2017 at 7:57 pm
Luggad