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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by aribisala0(m): 12:24am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:



He is taking about dirtiness....Oga can you compare even ibadan with onitsha
The dirtiest place on earth is Aba followed by Onitsha

Check this out
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/13/polluted-onitsha-nigeria-perpetual-dust-city-world-worst-air

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by aribisala0(m): 12:26am On Oct 28, 2017
Abi Na Yoruba media?

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:32am On Oct 28, 2017
laudate:

Hunger exists in every part of Nigeria. Or do you want to tell us that there are no hungry people in the Southeast, too?

Where do we have stomach infrastructure again...well you can play ostrich....leave what is in paper and face the truth in ground. Take it or leave it ...I am done

Inshort Osun is littered with gold, Aregberascal is the best thing that happened to osun and would be the best governor osun will ever get in their existence. You win


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=469259606513366&id=262884720484190

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:32am On Oct 28, 2017

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by aribisala0(m): 12:33am On Oct 28, 2017
Empty noise makers

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:39am On Oct 28, 2017
Putinofrussia:



I think the one about the most indigenous industrialized state in Nigeria had been settled here https://www.nairaland.com/3918290/yorubas-most-industriousrichest-educated-tribe

and the Yorubas trashed Igboland astronomically.Facts are sacrosanct.
I laugh...I looked at the thread and I saw people posting guys making shoes....if Aba are to post....have you heard of Igbo made...why not Yoruba made


Oga we are not here to compare....Igbo have 90% of water markets and 70 percent of south south market and having about 50 percent of Lagos market and the north they have made an in road seriously...so who are the most industrialised sir


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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by laudate: 12:39am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:
Where do we have stomach infrastructure again...well you can play ostrich....leave what is in paper and face the truth in ground. Take it or leave it ...I am done

Inshort Osun is littered with gold, Aregberascal is the best thing that happened to osun and would be the best governor osun will ever get in their existence. You win

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=469259606513366&id=262884720484190
You are done with what? Your lies and deception? shocked Were you not the one denying the existence of mud houses in Anambra and Imo? Your lie was busted. Then you switched gear and claimed Ibadan was the dirtiest city around. Again, that lie was shot down as it was made clear by some one here, that Aba has won the trophy of the dirtiest city in the country. Next, you started ranting about hunger. I asked you if there were no hungry people in the Southeast. You have refused to answer that question. Now, you are making noise about Aregbesola. Have you finished wailing about Okorocha? Anyway, na wetin concern me sef? undecided Let me allow those Yoruba people to give you a befitting answer. Hey, you Yoruba chaps, wey una dey?? shocked

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:42am On Oct 28, 2017
aribisala0:
Empty noise makers


This is an average street in osun capital

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by aribisala0(m): 12:42am On Oct 28, 2017
laudate:

You are done with what? Your lies and deception? shocked Were you not the one denying the existence of mud houses in Anambra and Imo? Your lie was busted. Then you switched gear and claimed Ibadan was the dirtiest city around. Again, that lie was shot down as it was made clear by some one here, that Aba has won the trophy of the dirtiest city in the country WORLD .

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by ApexPredator: 12:42am On Oct 28, 2017
aribisala0:
The dirtiest place on earth is Aba followed by Onitsha

Check this out
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/feb/13/polluted-onitsha-nigeria-perpetual-dust-city-world-worst-air
Most polluted air not the dirtiest, you shortbus rider. If I have to school you on the difference you need to sue whatever institutions "educated" you.

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by aribisala0(m): 12:43am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:


This is an average street in osun capital



No This is Onitsha in its porcine glory

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:43am On Oct 28, 2017
laudate:

You are done with what? Your lies and deception? shocked Were you not the one denying the existence of mud houses in Anambra and Imo? Your lie was busted. Then you switched gear and claimed Ibadan was the dirtiest city around. Again, that lie was shot down as it was made clear by some one here, that Aba has won the trophy of the dirtiest city in the country. Next, you started ranting about hunger. I asked you if there were no hungry people in the Southeast. You have refused to answer that question. Now, you are making noise about Aregbesola. Have you finished wailing about Okorocha? Anyway, na wetin concern me sef? undecided Let me allow those Yoruba people to give you a befitting answer. Hey, you Yoruba chaps, wey una dey?? shocked


Oga I haven't seen mud houses in Anambra ....and I can't ever compare Anambra with OSUN ...it's an insult to Anambra and the good people of Anambra


Anambra is light years ahead

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:45am On Oct 28, 2017
ApexPredator:

Most polluted air not the dirtiest, you shortbus rider. If I have to school you on the difference you need to sue whatever institutions "educated" you.

Beijing is the most polluted city in the world but it's not the dirtiest...don't mistake dirt with pollution. Pollution is as a result of industrial activity dirt is as a result of lifestyle and Yoruba cities takes that award Ibadan topping the chart even UNESCO got worried about the lack of toilet facilities in that city...do you want link

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:47am On Oct 28, 2017
laudate:

You are done with what? Your lies and deception? shocked Were you not the one denying the existence of mud houses in Anambra and Imo? Your lie was busted. Then you switched gear and claimed Ibadan was the dirtiest city around. Again, that lie was shot down as it was made clear by some one here, that Aba has won the trophy of the dirtiest city in the country. Next, you started ranting about hunger. I asked you if there were no hungry people in the Southeast. You have refused to answer that question. Now, you are making noise about Aregbesola. Have you finished wailing about Okorocha? Anyway, na wetin concern me sef? undecided Let me allow those Yoruba people to give you a befitting answer. Hey, you Yoruba chaps, wey una dey?? shocked


For us Yoruba, it’s a time of desperate urgency

EVERY nation in Nigeria is in trouble. Every nation in Nigeria is experiencing extreme hardship. Altogether, we the people and nationalities of Nigeria are heading for something unimaginably massive and cataclysmic.

I started in my message of last week to spell out the Yoruba share of this swelling tide of disaster. I mentioned our virtually impotent state governments incapable of doing much for the welfare and prosperity of their people; the masses of our highly educated youths roaming our streets unemployed and depending on their poor parents for sustenance; our nation living today in a depth of poverty that we as a nation have never before experienced in our whole history; and the growing danger that our people may suddenly erupt in a massive and uncontrollable insurrection.

We Yoruba traditionally loved to brag that no Yoruba person could become a beggar in the streets. Any beggars in our streets were usually persons from other lands. But in post-independence Nigeria, it has become more and more common to see Yoruba beggars in our streets. Today, the huge number of Yoruba beggars in our towns has become a Yoruba national shame, and the number continues to balloon.

The famous German professor, Ulli Beier, worked in Yorubaland for years in the middle of the last century – in the 1950s and 1960s when the fabric of Yoruba society and life was intact and strong. A long time later, in his old age in another country, he wrote: “Between 1950 and 1966, during my first stay in Nigeria, I never locked the door of my house. In a closely knit society, theft was almost impossible. - - - During this entire period, I never saw a hungry Yoruba; nor was anybody abandoned by the community”.

But before Ulli Beier left Nigeria in 1966, the situation in Nigeria had already started to corrupt Yoruba society. By the late 1970s, the impact of Nigeria on the Yoruba nation had become remarkable. Many capable Yoruba citizens were giving up productive enterprises and hustling for some sort of share in Nigeria’s petroleum money. Under the impact of federal Nigeria’s seizure and control of the country’s produce exports, the unfortunate falls in export produce prices in the world market, and the grossly inept federal management of the situation, Yoruba cocoa farmers were quickly ruined. According to Ulli Beier, “the farmers could no longer afford to pay the labourers to harvest the cocoa pods. The cocoa began to rot on the ground - - . The large cocoa sheds (in Yoruba towns) stood empty”. Poverty tightened its grip on Yoruba life – as on the life of all other Nigerian nationalities, for a combination of similar reasons. Excessive and intensifying federal control on all aspects of the affairs of Nigeria, and the consequent loss of morale and initiative in our states, made sure that the poverty would grow stronger and stronger. Obviously, the right thing to do at this point was to relax the federal death-hold, reduce the powers of the Federal Government, and empower the states to revive their economies and re-energize their people. Rather than do that, the controllers of Nigeria continued to tighten the federal hold.

By the late 1980s, the disaster had become almost complete. Ulli Beier wrote that when he visited Nigeria again in the mid-1980s, he could not believe how totally the fabric of Yoruba life and society had crumbled. Even in the supposedly rich neighbourhoods of Ikoyi in Lagos, he saw Yoruba people begging. “Yoruba society had fallen apart”, he wrote sadly.

The crumbling is now at an absolute peak. While the masses of Yoruba university graduates are roaming the streets and suffering the shame of depending on their economically battered parents, even the types of Yoruba citizens who have traditionally managed to provide for their families and to help their kinsmen and neighbours have been robbed of most of their strength by the poverty in Nigeria. All over Yorubaland, some of such notable citizens now must look up to their politicians to help them sustain a semblance of economic self-respect. In the circumstance, it is no longer sufficient for the elected public official to perform his duties well (to build roads, renovate the school buildings, improve the quality of teaching in the schools, build water supply systems, etc); he is also expected by some of the notables among his people to give them more or less regular hand-outs. If a governor does not keep up with these expectations, he might risk a political storm rising against him in his state. In the circumstances of today, authentic Yoruba political parties or political leaders have become a rarity; and most of the so-called politicians and parties of these days are just crowds of self-seeking jobbers perpetually regrouping – likemindlessly shifting sands on a sea shore.

All these developments represent a vile and unacceptable destruction of Yoruba character,Yoruba political mores, and Yoruba governance ethics, and they embarrass most Yoruba people. They make it impossible to create and sustain the kind of constructive, accountable and dignified political leadership and governance that the Yoruba people are used to, profoundly negate the ways that Yoruba people want to live and be governed, and alienate the masses of Yoruba people. Obviously, the Yoruba nation must find some way out of this quagmire – and do so in a hurry, before the treasures of their culture are totally destroyed, or before their highly educated masses rise like a hurricane.

For the Yoruba nation in Nigeria, therefore, these are times of desperate urgency. The sad truth is that there is no real hope that the necessary change for the better can ever materialize inNigeria. If Nigeria’s history to-date teaches anything, it is that Nigerians do not, and cannot, have a unity of purpose – a unity of purpose to reorder the direction of Nigeria’s affairs, to restructure the lopsided Nigerian federation, and to deal effectively with public corruption. In the final analysis, it is each nation struggling through the Nigerian darkness and disaster that knows where, how, and how intensely the shoe pinches; and as one proverb of ours says, “Alatise lo nmoatiseara re” (it is the person whose foot is hurting terribly that knows what to do).And as for any of us who is inclined to doubt and dither, or to continue to hug and glamourize the unsupportable, when it is really time to poop the anus will open.

------------------- Diran Apata


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=469259606513366&id=262884720484190

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by laudate: 12:48am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:
Oga I haven't seen mud houses in Anambra ....and I can't ever compare Anambra with OSUN ...it's an insult to Anambra and the good people of Anambra

Anambra is light years ahead
I have shown you evidence that there are mud houses in Anambra. sad Even the First lady of Anambra, Ebelechukwu Obiano has been trying to build houses for widows, to replace their mud houses. I even posted a screenshot of that article from the Sun Newspaper. And you are still here denying it. Bia nwoke, were you baptised with the unholy waters of deceit at birth, that you would rather believe a lie than the truth? shocked

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by ApexPredator: 12:50am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:


Beijing is the most polluted city in the world but it's not the dirtiest...don't mistake dirt with pollution. Pollution is as a result of industrial activity dirt is as a result of lifestyle and Yoruba cities takes that award Ibadan topping the chart even UNESCO got worried about the lack of toilet facilities in that city...do you want link
I'll write this off as friendly fire. I'm with you. Read my post more carefully.
Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by Igboid: 12:52am On Oct 28, 2017
I can't say there are no mud houses in Igboland, there could be some, but they are very hard to find, and most of them are abandoned, it's not uncommon to see a block house just nearby an abandoned mud house, they(mudhouses)are not common, and they are considered a thing of reproach. Only the downtrodden like widows and extremely poor live in mud houses in Igboland , and in Igboland, when one lives in mud house, he/she is considered homeless, because mostly they are actually homeless people, who circumstances forced into parking into hitherto abandoned mud houses.

This is not the case In Yorubaland. It's almost like a norm there. Living in mudhouse is considered absolutely normal there, they would go extra mile to plaster and paint such mudhouses, including building them into upstairs and decorating them. grin

It was in Yorubaland I saw a mudhouse upstairs lininnig an entire street for the first time in my life.
Never knew people will make out time to build mudhouses into upstairs.

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:54am On Oct 28, 2017
LooooooL. Everyone seems to be complaining these days.
Interesting piece from a Yoruba friend who confided to me that this is trending on their many platforms now......

FORWARDED AS RECEIVED.

Greetings, my dear friends.

Now let's reason together and think about my counter views on Igbo bashing as expressed below

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But ask yourself, did the Igbos put guns on anybody's head before buying up Alaba, Ajegunle, isolo and Oshodi in Lagos.

Did they use juju before the Ibadan surrendered Iwo Road to them?

And what were we looking at before the Igbos took over Isida and Adeti in Ilesa.

Where were the YORUBAS when the Igbos thrived and built 90% of the Hotels at Abuja. Was there a law that excluded the YORUBAS from selling building materials? Dei Dei building materials market in Abuja is 90 % Igbo owned.

So the more we point one finger at the Igbos, the more we have the other four fingers pointing at our laziness and lack of initiative as a society.

The YORUBAS should have been better with all our education, but we may be worse that the Fulanis who just roam around the bush.

Why? Because we lack the entrepreneurship spirit. We just want salaries from doing 8am to 5pm job. We proceed in foolishness and we persist in hoping to reap plenty without showing hard. The Igbos are different, hence we are now jealous and envious.

We love wasteful parties and Aso Ebi. Just a little business without even making any profit yet, we usually call musicians to spay money like coffetti .

Where are all the Board Members of Ebenezer Obey today? Where is lawyer Omoyinmi and Lanre Badmus? Where is Oroki Social Club of Osogbo? Where is Felates of Ilesa and the likes whose trade mark was to bring Sunny Ade to Ilesa every Xmas, to waste all income gathered for the year?

The Yoruba society wasted their leading lights on excessive consumption and wasteful attitudes. We wasted our capital on frivolous social gatherings.

We took religion to ridicoulous levels, such that the wealthiest pastors and churches are now Yorubas. But all the wealth extracted by the churches from the Yoruba nation is also merely flaunted to show who's God is the most miraculous.

So we have become paupers and destitutes, as the Yoruba nation cannot now pay salaries. Pensions are owed for years.

Tell me, is Osun State filled with human beings or goats to have tolerated Aregbesola, when they rejected Akande. Say it loud, is the Constituted Authority of Ibadan sane to just bring about 21 Obas from nowhere to receive salaries, where there is no money to reopen Ladoja Akintola University?

Are the Ondos so wise to have allowed Mimiko to devastate their terrain as to be now saddled with 12 months salary arrears? What of Ekiti with rabble rousing Fayose and the intellectually arrogant Fayemi?

Even Lagos, there is nothing to write home about it, despite all the hype.

But the Igbos are hard workers. Let us not continue to deceive ourselves. 20 of their young boys can live in the shop from where they sell goods. There is no place too dirty or remote for them to hibernate and incubate their ideas. Give them 5 years, you will see them buy and take over all shops and lands.

True, some of them are criminals, but majority of the Igbo youths build and build physical structures away, while the YORUBAS are content with looking for salaried jobs, so that they can have siesta in the afternoons and then attend parties on Saturdays. Then spend Sundays in church wishing and praying for divine miracles.

How foolish, as the Igbo people are meeting and strategizing on Sunday, so that they can gather money and come and buy the houses and lands owned by our Yoruba fathers.

Whether we like it or not, Obokungbusi Town Hall will soon be on concessional PPP sale. The Igbos will buy it. The proceeds will be used to pay backlog of salaries owed to impoverished Ijeshas. It will come willy nilly.

It will happen even in a declared Oduduwa Republic. Afterall, the Chinese, the Lebanese and the South Africans are buying us out with reckless abandon. See how ShopRite is buying up everywhere. I heard that they bought Owena Motel estate in Akure. How come we did not sell it to the Igbos?

We shall continue to grumble and hate the Igbos until eternity. Unless we spy on them, copy their ways and imbibe their can do attitude.

The Yoruba nation and society have been pauperised and destituted. In desperation, we shall soon start to behave like the Almajiris' in the North.

In grinding poverty and out of jealousy, the Almajiris of the North regularly loot Igbo shops and businesses. Very soon Yoruba urchins will start looting too to show that they hate the Igbos.

Even some of us here will defend it to show our hatred for the Igbos. Whereas, the looting is as a result of hunger and uselessness of our society.

How sad for the Yoruba Nation. ���

https://m./386299488112224?view=permalink&id=1794334957308663

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by IkpuMmadu: 12:56am On Oct 28, 2017
Igboid:
I can't say there are no mud houses in Igboland, there could be some, but they are very hard to find, and most of them are abandoned, it's not uncommon to see a block house just nearby an abandoned mud house, they(mudhouses)are not common, and they are considered a thing of reproach. Only the downtrodden like widows and extremely poor live in mud houses in Igboland , and in Igboland, when one lives in mud house, he/she is considered homeless, because mostly they are actually homeless people, who circumstances forced into parking into hitherto abandoned mud houses.

This is not the case In Yorubaland. It's almost like a norm there. Living in mudhouse is considered absolutely normal there, they would go extra mile to plaster and paint such mudhouses, including building them into upstairs and decorating them. grin

It was in Yorubaland I saw a mudhouse upstairs lininnig an entire street for the first time in my life.
Never knew people will make out time to build mudhouses into upstairs.


Even in ikpodo in Ikeja there is a mud house ..pls where is mud house again in onitsha of all places where they sell the deckings

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by Obi1kenobi(m): 12:59am On Oct 28, 2017
As always, Ndigbo b'anyi never fail to disappoint in worthless chest-beating. See what this thread has devolved to just because these unbearable Anambra boys can't handle stats that bust their illusions. If you're always squabbling with every group on Nairaland (SW, SS and Northern people), maybe you're part of the problem. For goodness sakes, just learn some damn humility! Bikonu! Just humble yourself once in a while, ehn?

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by laudate: 12:59am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:
For us Yoruba, it’s a time of desperate urgency

EVERY nation in Nigeria is in trouble. Every nation in Nigeria is experiencing extreme hardship. Altogether, we the people and nationalities of Nigeria are heading for something unimaginably massive and cataclysmic.

I started in my message of last week to spell out the Yoruba share of this swelling tide of disaster. I mentioned our virtually impotent state governments incapable of doing much for the welfare and prosperity of their people; the masses of our highly educated youths roaming our streets unemployed and depending on their poor parents for sustenance; our nation living today in a depth of poverty that we as a nation have never before experienced in our whole history; and the growing danger that our people may suddenly erupt in a massive and uncontrollable insurrection.

We Yoruba traditionally loved to brag that no Yoruba person could become a beggar in the streets. Any beggars in our streets were usually persons from other lands. But in post-independence Nigeria, it has become more and more common to see Yoruba beggars in our streets. Today, the huge number of Yoruba beggars in our towns has become a Yoruba national shame, and the number continues to balloon.

The famous German professor, Ulli Beier, worked in Yorubaland for years in the middle of the last century – in the 1950s and 1960s when the fabric of Yoruba society and life was intact and strong. A long time later, in his old age in another country, he wrote: “Between 1950 and 1966, during my first stay in Nigeria, I never locked the door of my house. In a closely knit society, theft was almost impossible. - - - During this entire period, I never saw a hungry Yoruba; nor was anybody abandoned by the community”.

But before Ulli Beier left Nigeria in 1966, the situation in Nigeria had already started to corrupt Yoruba society. By the late 1970s, the impact of Nigeria on the Yoruba nation had become remarkable. Many capable Yoruba citizens were giving up productive enterprises and hustling for some sort of share in Nigeria’s petroleum money. Under the impact of federal Nigeria’s seizure and control of the country’s produce exports, the unfortunate falls in export produce prices in the world market, and the grossly inept federal management of the situation, Yoruba cocoa farmers were quickly ruined. According to Ulli Beier, “the farmers could no longer afford to pay the labourers to harvest the cocoa pods. The cocoa began to rot on the ground - - . The large cocoa sheds (in Yoruba towns) stood empty”. Poverty tightened its grip on Yoruba life – as on the life of all other Nigerian nationalities, for a combination of similar reasons. Excessive and intensifying federal control on all aspects of the affairs of Nigeria, and the consequent loss of morale and initiative in our states, made sure that the poverty would grow stronger and stronger. Obviously, the right thing to do at this point was to relax the federal death-hold, reduce the powers of the Federal Government, and empower the states to revive their economies and re-energize their people. Rather than do that, the controllers of Nigeria continued to tighten the federal hold.

By the late 1980s, the disaster had become almost complete. Ulli Beier wrote that when he visited Nigeria again in the mid-1980s, he could not believe how totally the fabric of Yoruba life and society had crumbled. Even in the supposedly rich neighbourhoods of Ikoyi in Lagos, he saw Yoruba people begging. “Yoruba society had fallen apart”, he wrote sadly.

The crumbling is now at an absolute peak. While the masses of Yoruba university graduates are roaming the streets and suffering the shame of depending on their economically battered parents, even the types of Yoruba citizens who have traditionally managed to provide for their families and to help their kinsmen and neighbours have been robbed of most of their strength by the poverty in Nigeria. All over Yorubaland, some of such notable citizens now must look up to their politicians to help them sustain a semblance of economic self-respect. In the circumstance, it is no longer sufficient for the elected public official to perform his duties well (to build roads, renovate the school buildings, improve the quality of teaching in the schools, build water supply systems, etc); he is also expected by some of the notables among his people to give them more or less regular hand-outs. If a governor does not keep up with these expectations, he might risk a political storm rising against him in his state. In the circumstances of today, authentic Yoruba political parties or political leaders have become a rarity; and most of the so-called politicians and parties of these days are just crowds of self-seeking jobbers perpetually regrouping – likemindlessly shifting sands on a sea shore.

All these developments represent a vile and unacceptable destruction of Yoruba character,Yoruba political mores, and Yoruba governance ethics, and they embarrass most Yoruba people. They make it impossible to create and sustain the kind of constructive, accountable and dignified political leadership and governance that the Yoruba people are used to, profoundly negate the ways that Yoruba people want to live and be governed, and alienate the masses of Yoruba people. Obviously, the Yoruba nation must find some way out of this quagmire – and do so in a hurry, before the treasures of their culture are totally destroyed, or before their highly educated masses rise like a hurricane.

For the Yoruba nation in Nigeria, therefore, these are times of desperate urgency. The sad truth is that there is no real hope that the necessary change for the better can ever materialize inNigeria. If Nigeria’s history to-date teaches anything, it is that Nigerians do not, and cannot, have a unity of purpose – a unity of purpose to reorder the direction of Nigeria’s affairs, to restructure the lopsided Nigerian federation, and to deal effectively with public corruption. In the final analysis, it is each nation struggling through the Nigerian darkness and disaster that knows where, how, and how intensely the shoe pinches; and as one proverb of ours says, “Alatise lo nmoatiseara re” (it is the person whose foot is hurting terribly that knows what to do).And as for any of us who is inclined to doubt and dither, or to continue to hug and glamourize the unsupportable, when it is really time to poop the anus will open.

------------------- Diran Apata
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=469259606513366&id=262884720484190

I couldn't stop laughing, when I read this article. cheesy The writer is upset with his own Yoruba people, not so? And you are delighted about it?
What about the Igbo people? So the Igbo communities or the Igbo society, does not have corrupt elements within it? So corruption has not entered the fabric of Igbo society, in the Southeast? Oh lawd.... don't let me laugh too much this night. grin The way you are jumping from pillar to post, is hilarious. Don't worry, those Yoruba chaps will soon come in here to give you a befitting answer....

Where is that article that Ozodi Osuji wrote again about your people??

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by Obi1kenobi(m): 1:04am On Oct 28, 2017
Igboid:
I can't say there are no mud houses in Igboland, there could be some, but they are very hard to find, and most of them are abandoned, it's not uncommon to see a block house just nearby an abandoned mud house, they(mudhouses)are not common, and they are considered a thing of reproach. Only the downtrodden like widows and extremely poor live in mud houses in Igboland , and in Igboland, when one lives in mud house, he/she is considered homeless, because mostly they are actually homeless people, who circumstances forced into parking into hitherto abandoned mud houses.

This is not the case In Yorubaland. It's almost like a norm there. Living in mudhouse is considered absolutely normal there, they would go extra mile to plaster and paint such mudhouses, including building them into upstairs and decorating them. grin

It was in Yorubaland I saw a mudhouse upstairs lininnig an entire street for the first time in my life.
Never knew people will make out time to build mudhouses into upstairs.


My hometown, Oraukwu, like many other Idemili communities have little to no mud residences, but some poorer, more remote communities in Anambra and the South East have them. And whether there are mud houses or not, so damn what? Why feel so insecure about it? How does it make your life better or worse?

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by laudate: 1:06am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:
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I read this post and I was like -... hehehehe!! Impersonation is a crime, o! cheesy shocked grin You had to pretend to be a Yoruba man, because you wanted to advertise your products? shocked

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by laudate: 1:12am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:
Even in ikpodo in Ikeja there is a mud house ..pls where is mud house again in onitsha of all places where they sell the deckings
You still don't get it, do you? There are mud houses in different towns or villages, within the Southwest. Those houses are several years old. Even in the Middle Belt, you would still find mud houses, in several villages. Go to the North too, you would see them. undecided In fact, PMB declared one traditional mud house along with his list of assets, in his asset declaration form. People are not in denial about it. In many cases, such houses formed part of the ancestral homestead, and subsequent generations have strived to continue keeping such houses in good shape, because it represents a part of their history, or because they have a sentimental attachment to those houses.

It is only your people that deny its existence because they want to feel big, or out of pride. Why?? shocked

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by laudate: 1:15am On Oct 28, 2017
IkpuMmadu:
Even in ikpodo in Ikeja there is a mud house ..pls where is mud house again in onitsha of all places where they sell the deckings
Ah! You are familiar with Ipodo - the red light district of Ikeja? Now, I know what fuels your mentality. I rest my case.

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by Igboid: 1:30am On Oct 28, 2017
Obi1kenobi:


My hometown, Oraukwu, like many other Idemili communities have little to no mud residences, but some poorer, more remote communities in Anambra and the South East have them. And whether there are mud houses or not, so damn what? Why feel so insecure about it? How does it make your life better or worse?

What exactly is the point of this your post?

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by aribisala0(m): 1:49am On Oct 28, 2017
Igboid:


What exactly is the point of this your post?
What is the point of this one

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by Obi1kenobi(m): 1:50am On Oct 28, 2017
Igboid:


What exactly is the point of this your post?

The post was simply telling you to grow the fucckk up and get over your childish chest-beating.

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by totit: 2:00am On Oct 28, 2017
grin

..and I missed another beautiful show. Awwww.. e pain me.

C'on fellas, how can you argue over a well conducted facts/stats when you have no other or counter stats to dispute than usual NL shouting upanda ' mud house, na lie, nah propaganda ".. mehan iiiii I am so use to these damn boring usual ranting and emotional outpouring against facts being a usual norm here, NL.

Laudate,dameolo,aribisala0 et al I see ya'all..yah justice ..upholding nothing but facts and figures una do well.

The noise and emotion thingy on NL sometime fiti boil water for akpu sef grin

I don laff tire grin

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by laudate: 2:10am On Oct 28, 2017
koladebrainiac:
lol
Igbo be dey live in delusion since.
when they want to brag they say SE is better than all Nigeria
when they want to play victim they say they are being marginalized.

awon oniro olorunnnn dirty looking folks
Oh no, this is too much! cheesy

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Re: Poverty Rate Of The 36 States Of The Federation Zamfara Top The Chart With 91% by aribisala0(m): 2:12am On Oct 28, 2017
Tihihihi
Anambra is 4th largest economy in Europe??




Is Anambra in Europe shocked shocked shocked

The Ebola people of Eastern Nigeria
funny people

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