Posted by Irohin Odua.

I wrote this article last Friday, September 18, for another purpose. That was three days before Chief Olu Falae was attacked and kidnapped on his farm by persons suspected by police to be Fulani cattle herders. Written before the unthinkable outrage against Chief Falae, this article proves surprisingly prophetic.

The country named Yugoslavia in southeastern Europe broke up in 1990. While it existed, it was similar to Nigeria of today in many ways. Like Nigeria, Yugoslavia consisted of many different nationalities – the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Albanians, etc. Britain had thoughtlessly pushed many nationalities together to create Nigeria in 1914; Britain and France also thoughtlessly pushed many nationalities together to create Yugoslavia in 1918.

Like Nigerian leaders, Yugoslav leaders were never able to manage their inter-ethnic relationships amicably. Like Nigeria therefore, Yugoslavia was always unstable. Under a dictator, Josip Tito, in 1945 to 1980, Yugoslavia’s ethnic hostilities were forcibly kept under control. But after Tito died in 1980, the instability returned in full force.

Most of Yugoslavia’s ethnic leaders did try to save the country. Throughout the 1980s, they held national conferences to find a settlement. But the Serbs (the largest of the nationalities) foiled all the attempts – because the Serbs would not accept any agreement that did not guarantee their dominance. The country slipped on – until it exploded in 1990.

The final break-up started when some of the nationalities announced secession. The Serbs mobilized a large army and tried to suppress them, but more nationalities announced secession. Yugoslavia descended into a horrendous conflagration.

We must now note the particular experience of one of the nationalities – Bosnia. While the other nationalities had attended to their own homelands in the 1980s, the Bosnian nation had been very careless about its own homeland and its future – just as the Yoruba are today in Nigeria. Like Yorubaland in Nigeria, Bosnia had attracted many immigrants from the other nationalities of Yugoslavia, as traders, job seekers, and settlers. The leaders of the Bosnian people had paid no attention to that development. Just as the Yoruba are doing today, the Bosnians had let the immigrants do as they wished. Bosnian politicians gave all their attention to Yugoslavian politics and did nothing as troubles openly brewed in their own homeland – exactly as Yoruba leaders are doing now in Nigeria.

When the Yugoslav conflagration finally came in 1990, and Bosnia announced secession like the other nationalities, the Bosnians immediately found themselves in hell – real hell. Some of the immigrant groups claimed parts of Bosnia as theirs, and tried to create small countries of their own in such places; and armed groups came from their homelands to help them. Serbian armies also came to suppress Bosnia’s secession. In the confusion, Bosnian people were killed in their tens of thousands, and their women were raped and killed. Bosnian towns and cities were devastated. This horror continued until NATO and the United States mercifully intervened, stopped the carnage and destruction, and helped Bosnians to have their country.

Yes, the Bosnians did get their country. In addition, many of the persons who had brutalized them during the secession confusions were later arrested by international authorities, hauled before the International Court of Justice, tried, and harshly penalized. But the Bosnians are still living with the scars and the painful memories of their horrific suffering, and they will live with such forever. Had Bosnian leaders been more dutiful to their nation instead of expending all their energy in partisan political wrangling in the 1980s, Bosnians would never have suffered as horribly as this.

The lesson here is clear. When different nationalities, each living in its own homeland, different in culture and religion, are forced together into one country, dark forces of rivalry, envy, fear, ill-will, hatred and domination can sometimes be generated in the hearts of some of the nationalities against others. That is what happened in Yugoslavia. It has happened in many Black African countries too. It is the duty of the leaders of each nationality to ensure that their people are not left unprotected.

Signs of these dark forces are manifest in Nigeria. Sure, Nigeria enjoys some fragile peace. Many Nigerians desire that Nigeria should become a harmonious and peaceful country and thereby exist for long as one country. However, for that to happen, Nigeria would need to be structured into a proper and well-ordered federation – with all of today’s over-centralization eliminated.

Much will also depend on how much Nigerian nationalities respect one another. Those who migrate to other peoples’ homelands and choose to be disrespectful of their hosts, and to indulge in aggressive and unruly claims and behavior against their hosts, and those who seek to dominate others, must know that they are essentially making Nigeria impossible to keep together.

Also, very importantly, each Nigerian nationality owes the duty of making inter-ethnic relationships in its own homeland orderly and healthy. Nearly all Nigerians relocating from their homelands today are heading to Yorubaland and, already, the coming of many of them is disorderly and unhealthy. Yoruba leaders need therefore to remember the experiences of the Bosnians. Like the Bosnian leaders, today’s Yoruba leaders may be preparing the grounds for the suffering of Yoruba people too. These Yoruba leaders may also be unknowingly strengthening the forces that can break up Nigeria – since it is impossible that the masses of common Yoruba people will forever tolerate being insulted and trampled underfoot, no matter how much Yoruba leaders may be committed to Nigeria.

Hospitality to strangers is a well-established icon of Yoruba culture. Moreover, welcoming people from other lands is something that can add greatly to prosperity in Yorubaland over time. However, the large-scale immigration into Yorubaland today creates many serious problems – problems that Yoruba people, Yoruba leaders, and especially Yoruba governors and legislatures, need to find answers to. Yoruba leaders should establish some modicum of unity in their own ranks, at least for the purpose of facing these serious problems together. The six governors of the Yoruba South-west, and the six legislatures, should establish ways to put heads together to find and implement answers to these problems.

The problems are many and complex, but they as soluble. The leading problem is that Yorubaland is not generating enough economic development, and enough jobs, for its burgeoning population. Among the Yoruba people themselves, in spite of their solid education, enough businesses are not being created – because the governments are not developing their people. As a result, most educated Yoruba youths are unemployed, and most of the immigrants are unemployed too. Huge numbers of the immigrants struggling for survival, as well as many of the Yoruba youths, take to petty peddling on the streets, which is a classic example of “under-employment”. In their frenetic hurrying around, they make the main streets of most Yoruba cities look like trash-dumps churned by whirlwinds.

The state governments must arise to this situation. Obviously, what the governments need to do is to create programmes of human development – improved basic education, job-skill development, entrepreneurial development, small business promotion, modern farm programmes, and well-managed micro-credit systems, for all (indigenes and immigrants alike). The objective must be to achieve the purpose of the old Yoruba adage – “that the owners of the home and the strangers in the home may all have plenty to eat”. That “plenty” must also include housing space – meaning that public authorities must aggressively build housing estates.

Another problem is the serious shortage of shopping centres in Yoruba towns. The old marketplaces are still there, but more shopping centres and malls are urgently needed. Also needed are proper licensing of traders and stores, introduction of sales tax, and prohibition of street peddling in designated residential zones of every city. Laws should also be made to prohibit the existence of exclusive “tribal” marketplaces or shopping centres, and to make all marketplaces and shopping centres the common property of the community, equally open to all. Provisions also need to be made for the proper observance of law in the commercial life of Yorubaland, as well as laws for the prohibition of ethnic-based, or other, monopolies or cartels.

Yet another problem is that, though Nigeria’s laws vest the management of the land of every state in the state government, Yoruba states have evolved no land policies and no land transfer systems. Therefore, land acquisition and land transfer are occurring on a massively chaotic scale – obviously threatening indigenes and immigrants alike (and the whole society) with mightily confused land problems. These need to be corrected.

Yet another serious problem is that, in many rural areas, migrant Fulani cattle herders from across the Niger, pushed south by drought, and by attacks by cattle rustlers, are increasingly clashing with Yoruba farmers on their farms, and becoming more dangerously armed and more aggressive – resulting in serious harm to farmers and cattle herders alike. Yoruba leaders and governments must find sensible and sustainable answers to this situation.

There are more problems, but we will stop here. Altogether, the impression must be eliminated that the Yoruba homeland is a “no-man’s-land”, a land without rules or order or leadership, where people from other parts of Nigeria can do as they wish. The core need is that Yoruba leaders and state governments must urgently rise up to their duties of ensuring orderly progress in their homeland.

By Professor Banji Akintoye

The writer is an idiot, as are many yorubas who think like him. For your information, your countrymen who live in your part of the country are no strangers - they are compatriots, and I'm 100 percent sure they are not living on your goodwill. They won't worship you and would only reciprocate whatever respect your accord them.

You will not dictate to them how they will live, or organise themselves, the constitution is there for such. And if you don't want them to live, do business, or prosper in your so-called space, get your representative to state that in the national constitution. And until Nigeria finally disintegrates to several pieces, Lagos - nay Nigeria will always be a no-man's land for all her citizens!!

Again the writer is a very foolish, stup/id and sufferscated bast/ard!

nice write up op

PointB:
The writer is an idiot, as are many yorubas who think like him. For your information, your countrymen who live in your part of the country are no strangers - they are compatriots, and I'm 100 percent sure they are not living on your goodwill. They won't worship you and would only reciprocate whatever respect your accord them.

You will not dictate to them how they will live, or organise themselves, the constitution is there for such. And if you don't want them to live, do business, or prosper in your so-called space, get your representative to state that in the national constitution. And until Nigeria finally disintegrates to several pieces, Lagos - nay Nigeria will always be a no-man's land for all her citizens!!

Again the writer is a very foolish, stup/id and sufferscated bast/ard!

Your father will not die well for this your response. The OP is making serious valid points and as always the answer has to come from a useless idiotic tribe. Why dont you approach the authorities in Lagos and tell them this is no man's land. And where in the constitution does it say Lagos is no man;s land and it is for everybody?
The fact is until all states in Nigeria have the same level of migration and stampeded in the same manner, Lagos resolutely remains a Yoruba state.
The commissioners have been selected and are being screened. Go and challenge that they are all Yorubas.
Whether your father likes it or not, this is Yoruba land. Go and build your shops and mansions in Igboland. The hatred is building up and mutual.

Ok

Stoking the embers of tribalism

Anyways I am for a total restructuring of this fraudulent entity to a fair, equitable and just society where winners do not take it all, either into regions or we empower the states to control their resources and contribute to the federal purse.

2014 National conference recommendations on my mind.

basilo101:
Envy will kill yoruba ppl. useless lazy ppl. u support the centralized fake country and want to be given our FCT on a platter of gold? u call a citizen an immigrant in his own country and want him to thank you for what he suffered to achieve in his own country? let every tribe form their own regional govt, and let smaller tribes merge as they wish, then u can make ur useless laws after which ppl will vacate ur region and hunger will kill u lazy lots.

Lol!
No be ibo man, Ironsi destroyed our regional govt?
Yeye people!

basilo101:
Envy will kill yoruba ppl. useless lazy ppl. u support the centralized fake country and want to be given our FCT on a platter of gold? u call a citizen an immigrant in his own country and want him to thank you for what he suffered to achieve in his own country? let every tribe form their own regional govt, and let smaller tribes merge as they wish, then u can make ur useless laws after which ppl will vacate ur region and hunger will kill u lazy lots.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

You and your father are on a long thing. 10 years ago I swore Nigerians regardless of tribe or religion are too cowardly to engage in suicide bombing.

Now we know the truth. Keep calling people coward while pushing them to the wall or change their way of life. Na for your eye e go explode.

OP - I feel u. We are not a nation. Awo was right and Zik was wrong. I am interested in the Yoruba nation coming together to press for implementation of the National Conference report.

You can cite the Yugoslavia case and wait for the explosion or do something about it and help in the dismantling of this contraption we call a country

It can only end here or you sneak into Alaba in the death of the night and paste cowardly posters

Well, Yorubas should also realise that they should also end the notion that gives the impression that the hydrocarbon stuff in Nigeria is NO MAN'S OIL. Yorubas should loose the ownership of oil blocks that were not given to them by the real owners of such.

Based on this writeup, I will urge Anambra and Abia state not to cooperate with the Yoruba states that want to send Yorubas to Igbos states as apprentices to learn one skill or tthe other.

King Hate the Great of Lagoonville

Kagawa10:

Lol!
No be ibo man, Ironsi destroyed our regional govt?
Yeye people!

Why can't you use your fetish suffercation to start it again. ..if Ironsi destroyed it, why cant your thin god awo, Gowon, tinubu and buhari start it over again, are they dumber than Ironsi? Morons everywhere

First off, i don't support tribalism or nepotism but based on your analysis on how/what Bosnia suffered after Yugoslazia disintegrated, you gave me cause to worry about the present political situations in Nigeria, which could result to disintegration if many issues are not addressed on time. e.g Biafra agitation(radio biafra), Power tussle btw the north and the South west, Ogoni, Niger delta agitation for resource control, Decline of oil price e.t.c

And if that should happen, are Yoruba's prepared to defend themselves?

I mean a readily trained and disciplined army.

For me Biafran's are readily ready, and some Niger deltans are also prepared to defend themselves.

But i don't see it coming until South westernerns and Niger deltan's decides to secede..

forgiveness:
First off, i don't support tribalism or nepotism but based on your analysis on how/what Bosnia suffered after Yugoslazia disintegrated, you gave me cause to worry about the present political situations in Nigeria, which could result to disintegaration if many issues are not addressed on time. e.g Biafra agitation(radio biafra), Power tussle btw the north and the South west, Ogoni, Niger delta agitation for resource control, Decline of oil price e.t.c

And if that should happen, are Yoruba's prepared to defend themselves?

I mean a ready trained and disciplined army.

For me Biafran's are readily ready, and some Niger deltans are also prepared to defend themselves.

But i don't see it coming until South westernerns and Niger deltan's decides to secede..

Yinka Odumakin has floated a radio station in Ibadan. South West will be ready.

joeyfire:


Yinka Odumakin has floated a radio station in Ibadan. South West will be ready.

Ok na!

joeyfire:

Yinka Odumakin has floated a radio station in Ibadan. South West will be ready.

we need a good arms supplier

Ok

ibedun:


we need a good arms supplier

No need for arms. Follow the example of Igbo group BILIE that has filed a self determination case in court. Na small small. Eventually a referendum will have to be held.

Focus energy on mobilising people at the grassroots as to why they need to vote to first of all decentralize Nigeria

forgiveness:
... Power tussle btw the north and the South west, Ogoni, Niger delta agitation for resource control, Decline of oil price e.t.c
And if that should happen, are Yoruba's prepared to defend themselves?
I mean a ready trained and disciplined army.
For me Biafran's are readily ready, and some Niger deltans are also prepared to defend themselves.
But i don't see it coming until South westernerns and Niger deltan's decides to secede..

Yorubas will take care of themselves. Besides, war is quite natural to them. Please continue in the pursuit of peace, and let those who look for war be consumed by it.

Which part of yoruba land is the op referring to?

Volksfuhrer:


Yorubas will take care of themselves. Besides, war is quite natural to them. Please continue in the pursuit of peace, and let those who look for war be consumed by it.

Well, i am also for peace but what i read up there gave me cause to worry and think..hnm!

PointB:
The writer is an idiot, as are many yorubas who think like him. For your information, your countrymen who live in your part of the country are no strangers - they are compatriots, and I'm 100 percent sure they are not living on your goodwill. They won't worship you and would only reciprocate whatever respect your accord them.

You will not dictate to them how they will live, or organise themselves, the constitution is there for such. And if you don't want them to live, do business, or prosper in your so-called space, get your representative to state that in the national constitution. And until Nigeria finally disintegrates to several pieces, Lagos - nay Nigeria will always be a no-man's land for all her citizens!!

Again the writer is a very foolish, stup/id and sufferscated bast/ard!

Can you tell me what exactly sounds foolish?
I will get back to you later

Awo I hail oh

Why do yoruba people always like to use the word"host,immigrants,visitors,accommodating? the moment the hear "Biafra" the will start complaining about one nigeria this and that.and by the way who are the people the accommodate?who do the regard as immigrants,? is it Lebanese,Indians or the Chinese? you can be collecting oil money from BIAFRA LAND every month telling us we are all one nigeria,what ever that means at the same time you don't want people in your land,are you people that STUPID!!!EH?

basilo101:
Envy will kill yoruba ppl. useless lazy ppl. u support the centralized fake country and want to be given our FCT on a platter of gold? u call a citizen an immigrant in his own country and want him to thank you for what he suffered to achieve in his own country? let every tribe form their own regional govt, and let smaller tribes merge as they wish, then u can make ur useless laws after which ppl will vacate ur region and hunger will kill u lazy lots.

Read more of history kid and stop listening to beer parlor gists. It was your igbo Nzeogu and his fellow igbo brothers that for selfish and greedy reasons that truncated the first Republic, a republic that saw growth and healthy rivalry among the regions.
The yorubas have always been advocates of regionalism, self determination, federalism. That have always been the Yoruba view until nzeogu. After Nzeogu came igbo aguyi ironsi who made Nigeria a unitary state that gave rise to the current arrangement
The yorubas are already integrating their region economically and socially

elookoo:


Read more of history kid and stop listening to beer parlor gists. It was your igbo Nzeogu and his fellow igbo brothers that for selfish and greedy reasons that truncated the first Republic, a republic that saw growth and healthy rivalry among the regions.
The yorubas have always been advocates of regionalism, self determination, federalism. That have always been the Yoruba view until nzeogu. After Nzeogu came igbo aguyi ironsi who made Nigeria a unitary state that gave rise to the current arrangement
The yorubas are already integrating their region economically and socially

Not just that....in fact.....in all.......the national conferences held before and after the independence...Yorubas have always been the ones fighting for regionalism......the die is cast...we need to get rid of the iboes from our Lands or their flat.heads must be used for farming.......no iboe man can ever want Biafra as much as I do...... ...these people are criminals and must be removed by thunder....by fire.....I don talk my own.....

What exactly do the yorubas want?
you go to Abuja every month to collect allocation sourced from other peoples region.
your people are all over the niger delta region working and doing business with the oil companies and nobody is calling them immigrants or whatever.
you hear of Biafra and you go into delirium and start preaching one Nigeria.
and you call people who are legally living in their own country immigrants and visitors.
I do recall in the early 90s after seat of government was moved to Abuja,how yorubas were worried that Lagos is going to be abandoned and become ordinary like any other SW town but were assured that it's going to remain as the countries economic capital.it took the effort of Nigerians from different ethnic nationalities and diverse backgrounds to make Lagos what it is today but alas they want others to vacate the city for them but one thing is sure,so long as this contraption called Nigerian continues to exist,that won't happen.

IROHINOodua:
Posted by Irohin Odua.

I wrote this article last Friday, September 18, for another purpose. That was three days before Chief Olu Falae was attacked and kidnapped on his farm by persons suspected by police to be Fulani cattle herders. Written before the unthinkable outrage against Chief Falae, this article proves surprisingly prophetic.

The country named Yugoslavia in southeastern Europe broke up in 1990. While it existed, it was similar to Nigeria of today in many ways. Like Nigeria, Yugoslavia consisted of many different nationalities – the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bosnians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Albanians, etc. Britain had thoughtlessly pushed many nationalities together to create Nigeria in 1914; Britain and France also thoughtlessly pushed many nationalities together to create Yugoslavia in 1918.

Like Nigerian leaders, Yugoslav leaders were never able to manage their inter-ethnic relationships amicably. Like Nigeria therefore, Yugoslavia was always unstable. Under a dictator, Josip Tito, in 1945 to 1980, Yugoslavia’s ethnic hostilities were forcibly kept under control. But after Tito died in 1980, the instability returned in full force.

Most of Yugoslavia’s ethnic leaders did try to save the country. Throughout the 1980s, they held national conferences to find a settlement. But the Serbs (the largest of the nationalities) foiled all the attempts – because the Serbs would not accept any agreement that did not guarantee their dominance. The country slipped on – until it exploded in 1990.

The final break-up started when some of the nationalities announced secession. The Serbs mobilized a large army and tried to suppress them, but more nationalities announced secession. Yugoslavia descended into a horrendous conflagration.

We must now note the particular experience of one of the nationalities – Bosnia. While the other nationalities had attended to their own homelands in the 1980s, the Bosnian nation had been very careless about its own homeland and its future – just as the Yoruba are today in Nigeria. Like Yorubaland in Nigeria, Bosnia had attracted many immigrants from the other nationalities of Yugoslavia, as traders, job seekers, and settlers. The leaders of the Bosnian people had paid no attention to that development. Just as the Yoruba are doing today, the Bosnians had let the immigrants do as they wished. Bosnian politicians gave all their attention to Yugoslavian politics and did nothing as troubles openly brewed in their own homeland – exactly as Yoruba leaders are doing now in Nigeria.

When the Yugoslav conflagration finally came in 1990, and Bosnia announced secession like the other nationalities, the Bosnians immediately found themselves in hell – real hell. Some of the immigrant groups claimed parts of Bosnia as theirs, and tried to create small countries of their own in such places; and armed groups came from their homelands to help them. Serbian armies also came to suppress Bosnia’s secession. In the confusion, Bosnian people were killed in their tens of thousands, and their women were raped and killed. Bosnian towns and cities were devastated. This horror continued until NATO and the United States mercifully intervened, stopped the carnage and destruction, and helped Bosnians to have their country.

Yes, the Bosnians did get their country. In addition, many of the persons who had brutalized them during the secession confusions were later arrested by international authorities, hauled before the International Court of Justice, tried, and harshly penalized. But the Bosnians are still living with the scars and the painful memories of their horrific suffering, and they will live with such forever. Had Bosnian leaders been more dutiful to their nation instead of expending all their energy in partisan political wrangling in the 1980s, Bosnians would never have suffered as horribly as this.

The lesson here is clear. When different nationalities, each living in its own homeland, different in culture and religion, are forced together into one country, dark forces of rivalry, envy, fear, ill-will, hatred and domination can sometimes be generated in the hearts of some of the nationalities against others. That is what happened in Yugoslavia. It has happened in many Black African countries too. It is the duty of the leaders of each nationality to ensure that their people are not left unprotected.

Signs of these dark forces are manifest in Nigeria. Sure, Nigeria enjoys some fragile peace. Many Nigerians desire that Nigeria should become a harmonious and peaceful country and thereby exist for long as one country. However, for that to happen, Nigeria would need to be structured into a proper and well-ordered federation – with all of today’s over-centralization eliminated.

Much will also depend on how much Nigerian nationalities respect one another. Those who migrate to other peoples’ homelands and choose to be disrespectful of their hosts, and to indulge in aggressive and unruly claims and behavior against their hosts, and those who seek to dominate others, must know that they are essentially making Nigeria impossible to keep together.

Also, very importantly, each Nigerian nationality owes the duty of making inter-ethnic relationships in its own homeland orderly and healthy. Nearly all Nigerians relocating from their homelands today are heading to Yorubaland and, already, the coming of many of them is disorderly and unhealthy. Yoruba leaders need therefore to remember the experiences of the Bosnians. Like the Bosnian leaders, today’s Yoruba leaders may be preparing the grounds for the suffering of Yoruba people too. These Yoruba leaders may also be unknowingly strengthening the forces that can break up Nigeria – since it is impossible that the masses of common Yoruba people will forever tolerate being insulted and trampled underfoot, no matter how much Yoruba leaders may be committed to Nigeria.

Hospitality to strangers is a well-established icon of Yoruba culture. Moreover, welcoming people from other lands is something that can add greatly to prosperity in Yorubaland over time. However, the large-scale immigration into Yorubaland today creates many serious problems – problems that Yoruba people, Yoruba leaders, and especially Yoruba governors and legislatures, need to find answers to. Yoruba leaders should establish some modicum of unity in their own ranks, at least for the purpose of facing these serious problems together. The six governors of the Yoruba South-west, and the six legislatures, should establish ways to put heads together to find and implement answers to these problems.

The problems are many and complex, but they as soluble. The leading problem is that Yorubaland is not generating enough economic development, and enough jobs, for its burgeoning population. Among the Yoruba people themselves, in spite of their solid education, enough businesses are not being created – because the governments are not developing their people. As a result, most educated Yoruba youths are unemployed, and most of the immigrants are unemployed too. Huge numbers of the immigrants struggling for survival, as well as many of the Yoruba youths, take to petty peddling on the streets, which is a classic example of “under-employment”. In their frenetic hurrying around, they make the main streets of most Yoruba cities look like trash-dumps churned by whirlwinds.

The state governments must arise to this situation. Obviously, what the governments need to do is to create programmes of human development – improved basic education, job-skill development, entrepreneurial development, small business promotion, modern farm programmes, and well-managed micro-credit systems, for all (indigenes and immigrants alike). The objective must be to achieve the purpose of the old Yoruba adage – “that the owners of the home and the strangers in the home may all have plenty to eat”. That “plenty” must also include housing space – meaning that public authorities must aggressively build housing estates.

Another problem is the serious shortage of shopping centres in Yoruba towns. The old marketplaces are still there, but more shopping centres and malls are urgently needed. Also needed are proper licensing of traders and stores, introduction of sales tax, and prohibition of street peddling in designated residential zones of every city. Laws should also be made to prohibit the existence of exclusive “tribal” marketplaces or shopping centres, and to make all marketplaces and shopping centres the common property of the community, equally open to all. Provisions also need to be made for the proper observance of law in the commercial life of Yorubaland, as well as laws for the prohibition of ethnic-based, or other, monopolies or cartels.

Yet another problem is that, though Nigeria’s laws vest the management of the land of every state in the state government, Yoruba states have evolved no land policies and no land transfer systems. Therefore, land acquisition and land transfer are occurring on a massively chaotic scale – obviously threatening indigenes and immigrants alike (and the whole society) with mightily confused land problems. These need to be corrected.

Yet another serious problem is that, in many rural areas, migrant Fulani cattle herders from across the Niger, pushed south by drought, and by attacks by cattle rustlers, are increasingly clashing with Yoruba farmers on their farms, and becoming more dangerously armed and more aggressive – resulting in serious harm to farmers and cattle herders alike. Yoruba leaders and governments must find sensible and sustainable answers to this situation.

There are more problems, but we will stop here. Altogether, the impression must be eliminated that the Yoruba homeland is a “no-man’s-land”, a land without rules or order or leadership, where people from other parts of Nigeria can do as they wish. The core need is that Yoruba leaders and state governments must urgently rise up to their duties of ensuring orderly progress in their homeland.

By Professor Banji Akintoye

You see the kind of prof this man is ....he refused to list the causative factors


I will just list few

Unlike Bosnia Lagos was made the capital with so many infrastructure centred in Lagos and it is bound to attract visitors

Lagos was developed with oil money from the visitors land

Lagos had a functional seaport tactically killing other region port development unlike Bosnia that have many access to the Caspian sea routes did I mention black sea

Now unlike Bosnia that are whites we are Africans and we do enjoy killing


The visitors wanted out since 1967 but unlike Bosnia they fought for one country so this is it



Next time our prof should embark in a research before publishing an article



So much for Nigeria education

doxime:
What exactly do the yorubas want?
you go to Abuja every month to collect allocation sourced from other peoples region.
your people are all over the niger delta region working and doing business with the oil companies and nobody is calling them immigrants or whatever.
you hear of Biafra and you go into delirium and start preaching one Nigeria.
and you call people who are legally living in their own country immigrants and visitors.
I do recall in the early 90s after seat of government was moved to Abuja,how yorubas were worried that Lagos is going to be abandoned and become ordinary like any other SW town but were assured that it's going to remain as the countries economic capital.it took the effort of Nigerians from different ethnic nationalities and diverse backgrounds to make Lagos what it is today but alas they want others to vacate the city for them but one thing is sure,so long as this contraption called Nigerian continues to exist,that won't happen.

I just don't get it

One mouth they want regionalism and one country
The other mouth they say go back to your country
The next mouth will say we don't want you to have Biafra

Its so confusing to decipher what these folks really want I must say

elookoo:


Read more of history kid and stop listening to beer parlor gists. It was your igbo Nzeogu and his fellow igbo brothers that for selfish and greedy reasons that truncated the first Republic, a republic that saw growth and healthy rivalry among the regions.
The yorubas have always been advocates of regionalism, self determination, federalism. That have always been the Yoruba view until nzeogu. After Nzeogu came igbo aguyi ironsi who made Nigeria a unitary state that gave rise to the current arrangement
The yorubas are already integrating their region economically and socially

Is that so ?