Firefire:
I don't support this call outrightly but...

“It is globally accepted that there cannot be two kings in the same domain as there cannot be two captains in the same boat.”


However, this calls is against the spirit of National Unity and Oneness, BUT our Igbo brothers and sisters should tread softly and let understand our limitation when on foreign land until the law is amended.

Agba ki wa lo ja, ki ori omo tuntun wo oooo.

I am proudly Nigerian and not advocating for any tribe / race.

Please tell me the bolded was a mistake. What in Hell is a 'foreign land' when I reside in my country?
What is really going on in Nigeria. So, all those who fought to keep NIGERIA ONE made a mistake, if I will be regarded as a 'foreigner' in a part of Nigeria.
Truly your post made me sad.

lygn19:

an eze ndigbo is not a traditional king he is like a social leader of igbos in a foreign land.
If ur Oba doesnt like foreign hats if he asks him to remove it there is no way he wont.
u know it's staged they had him in mind and he fell for d bait, d sudden appearance of the youths with canes attests to that.

You forgot the part where the eediot came to protest!
Shameless people!

DeLaRue:
I went to Benin city earlier this year, and I was in no doubt I was in a 'foreign land' and conducted myself carefully knowing I was far from 'home'.

Even when l'm in Abuja I feel the same. I feel and know I'm a stranger there. It would be no different from being in Accra or Lome. This feeling did not stop me from doing my business and being friendly with people in Benin or Abuja, but inside me & irrespective of what the Constitution says, I exercised caution in these places at all times. I saw myself as an immigrant in both cities.


I am surprised Igbos seem chocked when they are told they are foreigners in Yorubaland. You are.

they have stayed there for over 70years based on the articles read.
naturally when even the igbos there first went there they behaved same way but with time u blend in... right or wrong?
there is a big differ between somebody who was born in Lagos, stays in Lagos and was raised in Lagos and somebody who hasn't been to Lagos before and its his first time, its obvious that the new guy would be scared of everybody, even non yorubas can easily bully him, but as time goes on he toughens up. its a normal thing.
so stop acting like the igbos went there and started dragging land with them.

Trut:
This is a wake up call for we Igbos to think home and support the actualisation of Biafra. Imagine this man calling Igbos "immigrants" in the so called One Nigeria?

in a sense,you are!!!......the tenant can not have the same authority as the landlord....this dont make sense.....

Kagawa10:

You forgot the part where the eediot came to protest!
Shameless people!

how many mouth una get.
u guys said he was invited to the palace disrespected the oba by wearing his crown to his palace, another mouth says he came to protest.
lies everywhere.

emmalexabl:
Afeniferere are bunch of confused old fools who decided to chase rat when their brown roof house is on fire..
Fulanis have been desecrating their land and kidnapping their obas and they never coughed.,so how come eze ndigbo (igbo affair).,is giving them insomnia ??

This generation of yorobass are FOOLISH AND DEVILISH !!

Who was the Yoruba Oba that was kidnapped?
Shameless people with their lies!

Kagawa10:

I did my schooling in the SS though!
And for the records, I was discussing how the dein of Agbor wears Bini attires and has some of its villages with Bini names!
Yeye!

u just dae sharp mouth up and down if I start with u, even yorubas from America would be sending letters demanding igbos to halt the attack in yorubas, they wont know is one of there ediotly son that started it with his mis yarnings.

lygn19:

how many mouth una get.
u guys said he was invited to the palace disrespected the oba by wearing his crown to his palace, another mouth says he came to protest.
lies everywhere.

Lol! Ibo dunces full nairaland!
Read the previous thread and tell me who was narrating the story if not the flogged stup!d eze?
Shameless dunces!

lygn19:

u just dae sharp mouth up and down if I start with u, even yorubas from America would be sending letters demanding igbos to halt the attack in yorubas, they wont know is one of there ediotly son that started it with his mis yarnings.

Lol!
See ape chest beating!

Kagawa10:

Lol!
See ape chest beating!

u know say u no reach.
I ve already marked the name be rest assured that this quarrel u are looking for u wud get it.

People who don't want to get to the bottom of things keep going on and on about the man's attire, whether he was a guest or not etc.

But the primary issue is that the guy usurped the King's authority by apointing a leadership for a market over which the Akure traditional rulers have exercised authority for centuries.

This was a coup. A challenge to the King's authority.

That was why he was called to the Palace.

I think the primary question should be why the Igbo guy decided to override a centuries old Yoruba tradition.

FreeGlobe:

Yoruba should stop diverting attention. A yoruba general has just been sentenced to death, Fualnis have captured the entire yorubaland. These are the real issues. Yorubas should man up and confront their masters and not picking side battles. Anyway, the news is a welcome development for some reasons.

Lol!
Daydreaming Ibos!

DeLaRue:
People who don't want to get to the bottom of things keep going on and on about the man's attire, whether he was a guest or not etc.

But the primary issue is that the guy usurped the King's authority by apointing a leadership for a market over which the Akure traditional rulers have exercised authority for centuries.

This was a coup. A challenge to the King's authority.

That was why he was called to the Palace.

I think the primary question should be why the Igbo guy decided to override a centuries old Yoruba tradition.

fu*ck off u are biased.
even if I explain from now till next year u wud still cut corners go tru dz thread read and understand then come back.

chuna1985:



Anything that concerns igbos de pain u badly.....

Yeye man!

liberty300:
yea, the Hausas rape, kidnap murder and pillage through your towns but no..focus on the Igbo man that caused you harm by his dressing to an event.. Clap for yourself, you get sense

Where did these happen? At Aguleri, right?

Afenifere vs Afenifere Renewal Group is more or less PDP vs APC. One attacks the Fulani to put the other in an uncomfortable defensive position. The other has now attacked Igbo to shut up the former. Tally is 1:1.

Both claim to be fighting for Yoruba interests.

For whom does the critic write? Who says politics in SW is not sophisticated?

SirJeffry:
I never heard that any Eze ndi Igbo challenged an Oba or other yoruba kings in yorubaland so why the hate?

so wearing a crown to greet the whole king of akure is not a challenge enough ? He has to come out and announce it in TV? Why are igbos so dumb ?

lygn19:

if in london u dont wear crown before the queen u won't be allowed to come in and u wud be asked to remove it or leave, u people allowed him pass the Obas gate security guards didnt tell him, he passed doors, greeted people nobody told him, was ushered to the palace while he waited for the Oba nobody told him, then when the oba came they used it as an excuse to carry out there plans, and to proove my assertions true the day it happened was not a weekend neither was a festival going on, how did youths appear suddenly with kane, youths up to that number for that matter, u guys shud just tell the world the truth u yorubas and your oba had him in mind that; that day was his day. fullstop.

that's why we say Igbo's generally lack common sense and love to start what they cant finish and only to play victims later .. The trait of pure coward they are .. I think ojukwu laid that example ..

First, why go to the queen of england with a crown in the first place when you know you won't be allowed in .. Common sense should have told you its wrong and you behave like human being ..

A whole king invited you. first, that is a sign of respect, he didn't summon him like a common criminal.. But then, he had to show he is true igbo son of ojukwu, he had to disrepct the invitation to settle a dispute that could have ended with both side having a good plate of amala ..
Are you saying he is not aware that his action is wrong before he even started?

FreeGlobe:

Yoruba should stop diverting attention. A yoruba general has just been sentenced to death, Fualnis have captured the entire yorubaland. These are the real issues. Yorubas should man up and confront their masters and not picking side battles. Anyway, the news is a welcome development for some reasons.

when are you going yo be more concerned about Fulani killing Igbo leaders and raping their women ..

At least Yoruba's are already issuing threats ..

Igbo, the coward of the nation

Firefire:
I don't support this call outrightly but...

“It is globally accepted that there cannot be two kings in the same domain as there cannot be two captains in the same boat.”


However, this calls is against the spirit of National Unity and Oneness, BUT our Igbo brothers and sisters should tread softly and let understand our limitation when on foreign land until the law is amended.

Agba ki wa lo ja, ki ori omo tuntun wo oooo.

I am proudly Nigerian and not advocating for any tribe / race.

one Nigeria means that we are all under one constitution as equals, and this constitution does not require one to be subjected to the constraints of any culture.

You can get your odua republic and fall back to constituted monarchy.

IdisuleOurOwn:



The Sarkin hausawa(s) and Sarkin fulani(s) never and will never disrespect their hosts.

It is the y1bos that disrespect their hosts.

In what way are the Igbos disrespectful??

Would you dare go to a cattle market to mess with their leadership? Would you appoint a babaloja over a miyetti Allah chief??

Would an oba dare summon a miyetti Allah chief to his palace, close his ranch/market at his whims even though those places are full of shanks, dirts and stink to high heaven?

I don't support the proliferation of Eze ndi Igbos but I think the Yorubas should stay clear of this. Any group of people should come together and appoint someone to represent them. Eze ndi Igbos are tasked with affairs related to Igbos and they are not in competition with obas or Yoruba chiefs.

The man who was allegedly crowned at the dejis palace should not have been crowned there. What nonsense was that? i don't support Ezes outside of Igbo land, that's my opinion but if he must be crowned, it mustn't be in any obas, deji or whatever name they are called palaces. That in itself is sacrilege.

This is the real AFENIFERE! The other one has members who are too old with conflict of interest.

This very AFENIFERE IS all about Yoruba land.

ODUBEZE:

Which one be Afenifere Renewal Group again?

eagleeye2:

Please tell me the bolded was a mistake. What in Hell is a 'foreign land' when I reside in my country?
What is really going on in Nigeria. So, all those who fought to keep NIGERIA ONE made a mistake, if I will be regarded as a 'foreigner' in a part of Nigeria.
Truly your post made me sad.

Nigeria is not a land. Are you not aware?

So use of foreign land is correct.

DeLaRue:

It's as if the Igbos have an agenda to forment inter tribal chaos. As a stranger in a land, yes, you can challenge some things, but challenging a people's tradition in this way is peculiar to Igbos and ill advised.

this is one Nigeria
no part of Nigeria is foreign land to any Nigerian
no Nigerian is a 'stranger' in any part of Nigeria as he enjoys the same full consitutional rights as he does even in his home town.

Your Deji and I are equals under this Nigerian constitution.
If yorubas want to return to constituted monarchy, they should fight for odua republic.

IdisuleOurOwn:



The Sarkin hausawa(s) and Sarkin fulani(s) never and will never disrespect their hosts.

It is the y1bos that disrespect their hosts.

They are already killing and raping you - What manner of disrespect is worse than that one?

fr3do:


one Nigeria means that we are all under one constitution as equals, and this constitution does not require one to be subjected to the constraints of any culture.

You can get your odua republic and fall back to constituted monarchy.

If you notice, Afenifere was specific....."customary law" of the land!

Truckpusher:
They are already killing and raping you - What manner of disrespect is worse than that one?

They just killed an Eze on your soil very recently after raping the women and girls in his household.

Igala is beheading and sacking you from your land.

What do you say to that?

fr3do:


this is one Nigeria
no part of Nigeria is foreign land to any Nigerian
no Nigerian is a 'stranger' in any part of Nigeria as he enjoys the same full consitutional rights as he does even in his home town.

Your Deji and I are equals under this Nigerian constitution.
If yorubas want to return to constituted monarchy, they should fight for odua republic.

Yes it is One Nigeria and no one respects you in it. You are 5th class in this nation, whoever told you are equal lied to you.

Even the President of.the nation told you and broadcasted it to the entire universe that you are a 5%ter.....you are a minority!

ThisMeansWAR:
when are you going yo be more concerned about Fulani killing Igbo leaders and raping their women ..

At least Yoruba's are already issuing threats ..

Igbo, the coward of the nation

Dem no born Ibo well to issue that kind of threat asking Fulani to vacate Iboland. The other half of their yellow sun go drop that day....it will be a total calamity.

MayorofLagos:


Dem no born Ibo well to issue that kind of threat asking Fulani to vacate Iboland. The other half of their yellow sun go drop that day....it will be a total calamity.

Una envy, hatred can not stop us

FKO81:

Una envy, hatred can not stop us

Writing for Naij.com from Magodo, Lagos, Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye says the Yoruba youths are no longer making their valuable contributions to the political and cultural life in Nigeria. What can the Yoruba people do to restore lost influence?

Lateef Raji, a public policy analyst, in an article titled “Dwindling Oil Revenue: What Next for Nigeria?” posited that today, despite the pitiful state of unemployment in Nigeria, ironically, the nation is still rated as the third destination of investors and one of the fastest-growing economy in the world. Raji noted that Nigeria is a golden land of numerous opportunities for those who are resourceful, ingenious, creative, innovative, inventive, groundbreaking, enterprising, hardworking, focused, visionary and, most significantly, disciplined.

Consequently, as a concerned Nigerian, I want to question the role(s) of Yoruba youths in the current fight against unemployment, starvation and poverty in Nigeria. This question was necessitated by my discovery through indirect observations that Yoruba youths are the most lazy, perfidious and egoistic youths in Nigeria as at today.

I discovered that the pride of an average Yoruba youth has overshadowed his intellectual judiciousness, level-headedness and sagacity. Today, among ten Nigerians submitting their resumes to multinational corporations eight would be Yorubas. Folks from my generation in the Western Nigeria are too lazy to tap from the abundant opportunities that litter the streets of, say, Lagos, for primitive accumulation of wealth.

The Igbos, and, by extension, the Niger-Deltans and the Northerners have indirectly taken over the control of economy of Lagos, Nigeria’s indisputable number one centre of success, excellence and opportunities.

The Apapa wharf in Lagos has virtually been taken over by the Easterners. The data that I got from the Nigerian custom services divulges that 63% of those licensed to transact businesses in Apapa Wharf are Igbos.

More so, data collected from licensing office reveals that owners of 56% of commercial motorcycles in Lagos are Northerners and Easterners. The lucrative transport business has been hijacked from the Yorubas.

Today, the major work of average Yoruba youths on the streets of Lagos is to collect royalty, due and charges from the Hausas and Igbos, using their motorcycles to make cool cash from their land. Ninety-five percent of transport, travel and tour firms operating in Lagos are owned by the enterprising and hardworking Easterners.

The Yorubas stay at various intersections harassing hardworking people transacting their legal businesses in the name of collecting charges and dues for the local government. I also discovered that majority of the few Yorubas riding commercial motorcycles in Lagos are locally-trained automobile engineers that have abandoned their workshops.

Furthermore, the popular Ladipo and Owode motor spare parts markets in Lagos are now solidly in the hands of Igbos. As usual, the Yoruba youths are in the market collecting dues for their local government chairmen and the Iyaloja General of Lagos. Yaba, Oyigbo, Sabo, Oshodi, Agege, Alaba, Idumota, etc. markets have been taken over by the Easterners and Northerners who are predominantly youths.

Let me also assert unequivocally that the Igbo youths are now becoming more prosperous in the entertainment industry than the Yoruba youths. Today, the Yorubas hardly tune their DSTVs to the Yoruba movie channel of the satellite television; rather, they watch some other movie channel that show English movies with actors and actresses of Igbo extraction. Why? Because most Yoruba movies are short of creativity.

I can also articulate that 85% of the CEOs and executive directors of commercial banks operating in Nigeria today are Igbos and Hausas under the age of 50. They are very talented in boardroom politics, unlike their Yoruba counterparts, and they assist each other with an amazing ease.

Educationally, the Yorubas are no longer in the top-three. According to the National Universities Commission (NUC), Anambra, Imo and Enugu have the highest number of professors and doctorate degree holders in Nigeria. Ekiti and Ondo states that used to top the list have been demoted to number four and six respectively.

In 2014, the reports of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) revealed that the Yorubas have been upturned by the Easterners in terms of academic performance. Ekiti, a state known as fountain of knowledge, was number 34 in 2013.

The Yorubas are also missing in the sports sector. The Golden Eaglets, Flying Eagles, Super Eagles, Flamingoes, Falconets, Super Falcons, D’Tigers, other national teams are dominated by the Igbos and Hausas. The team that won the African Cup of Nations for Nigeria in 2013 was tagged Biafran national team by some columnists and social commentators, including myself.

Politically, the Igbos and Hausas are more united than the Yorubas. The result of the 2015 presidential election is a point of reference. The Hausas voted massively for General Buhari of the APC, while the Igbos extraordinarily voted for Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.

Sadly, the Yorubas had no bearing during the election. Jonathan’s inner circle members are currently blaming the Yorubas for their son’s expected defeat. Victorious Buhari’s teammates are reportedly saying that the Yorubas contributed little or nothing to the success of their kinsman.

In conclusion, I want to impel my generation in the Western part of Nigeria to wake up and begin to act. The nation of Nigeria that I am seeing today is hemorrhaging. I suggest we put ourselves in strategic positions. The bitter truth is that our leaders only think for themselves and their children.

MayorofLagos:


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Emerging trend of social almajiri in Yorubaland
By Hakeem Jamiu

[b]There is a social malaise which is gradually creeping into the lexicon of Yorubaland and this is the ugly spectre of hungry children begging for food and alms at social events. Older women are equally not left out in this ugly but strange practice in Yorubaland. It is strange in Yorubaland because the concept of almajiri which simply means street urchin is common in the Northern part of the country. Yorubas use to refer derisively to anybody soliciting for arms in Yorubaland in the olden days as almajiri. The almajiri of the North are usually children between the age bracket of 7 and 20 in most cases. Almajiris are so desperate for food that any unsuspecting visitor to the Northern part of the country who goes to a restaurant to eat but mistakenly left his food to wash his hands is likely to lose such to waiting almajiris before he comes back for the food.

I first noticed this ugly trend at a ceremony I attended a few months ago at Ayetoro Ekiti. Elderly and middle aged able bodied women from Kwara, Osun and Oyo states invaded the burial ceremony uninvited and were embarrassing guests who refused to give them money. Also noticeable were children with their begging bowls who thronged the venue of the ceremony soliciting for left over food and alms. The children were a pitiable sight. Poverty was clearly written on their faces. I have attended many social functions after that and the same trend was noticeable. But I became worried a few days ago, when I attended the burial ceremony of a friend's father in Ilesha , Osun State . They came in various groups and employ different methods in soliciting for alms. There were the elderly women who were busy harassing guests in the name of praise singing and would not leave until you part with money, there were the men with their public address system which they use in praise singing but which is disturbance and yet, there were Yoruba children in the mould of almajiris with their begging bowls scrambling for left-over and at the same time soliciting for alms.

Fellow guests on my table at the event who were also journalists expressed their concern in unison about the growing trend of almajiri of various categories in Yorubaland. They all agreed that it has become a social problem. We started discussing and realised that the culture of begging in the mould of almajiris is alien to Yoruba culture. In those days before the advent of the British, the Yorubas are a proud people known for their hard work and industry. They practiced hoe agriculture and were well known as traders and for their crafts. Yoruba artists have produced masterpieces of woodcarving and bronze casting, some of which date from as early as the 13th century. Many of Nigeria 's best-known artists and writers are Yoruba. Other occupation of the Yorubas at that time were drumming and masquerading which would now be called showbiz. They engage in all the foregoing occupation but a Yoruba man or woman (able bodied) would not beg for alms as it is considered shameful and something akin to a curse. The Yorubas cherish their oriki (folklore) which is a poetic version of eulogizing the exploits of their progenitors which is an incentive for them to excel and even surpass their progenitors. The Yorubas have harsh words for lazy people. Such people are objects of ridicule and butt of jokes in the society. With this background, it is understandable why we became worried with the array of beggars at the Ilesha ceremony.

After leaving the party, I reflected on the scenario of the almajiris in Ilesha and I was able to draw a relationship between Political almajiris and social almajiris. I discovered that social almajiri had its root in the advent of the politics of do -or-die introduced into the political lexicon of Yorubaland by apostles of mainstream politics especially ex-President Obasanjo. The grand Patron of political almajiris who recently passed away was Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Many have argued that his death has led to the proliferation of almajiris in Yorubaland. This is because those he hitherto dole handouts to must look for other means of survival since he is no more. These political almajiris are ready to exchange their mothers for few coins. A new political class of men without integrity and anything goes was created and they became political almajiris who survive on crumbs from their masters. They would rig, kill, maim and do all sort of things to acquire political power. With the ascension of these men in power, good governance became a thing of the past. Our collective patrimony was squandered by these political almajiris. Nigeria has never been so blessed with petro dollar with oil selling for $156 dollars per barrel but Nigeria has never been so poor with a chunk of the population living below poverty line. So versions of the political almajiris are the social almajiris that now invade ceremonies in Yorubaland. With these children begging for alms, a ready made market for thuggery and other social vices is assured. The activities of the beggars are not limited to parties. At bus stops in our cities, it is a common sight to see women most of who are still in their mid thirties, who would strap a baby at their backs and approach men with stories of despair to solicit for alms. Many of them would end up in bed with such men. This is another brand of alamajiri and these are Yoruba women. A violent version of almajiri but which is gradually being tackled in Lagos is the 'Area Boys' syndrome. These are Yoruba street urchins who are semi- armed robbers.

The underlying factor in this new trend is failure of the Nigerian State on one part and the laziness on the part of these women. Most of them don't want to work, In those days, when everybody's occupation was farming you dare not beg. You must find something to do. But these days, our women and children are too lazy. It is either they steal or beg. In most cases a mother and child become almajiris at social events. So the question now is can a Yoruba man now refer derisively to a Hausa beggar as almajiri when we have many of them now in Yorubaland? The answer is no! This trend must be arrested before it goes out of hand. The almajiris in the North these days engage in novel forms of drug abuse like sniffing of gutter water to get intoxicated, sniffing of adhesives and other drugs so that they are ever ready to unleash terror on the rest of the society whenever they are called upon to do so by the political wing of almajiris. I strongly recommend that guests at public functions must stop encouraging almajiris by giving them money.

But can government which itself owns the political wing of almajiris arrest this trend? Time will tell.[/b]