Afam4eva:
This is why i asked if people were compelled or they did it by their own free will. If the latter is the case then no problem but if the former is the case which someone confirmed then it's not right. I'm sure a lot of those market people will rather go to market today but due to fear of the unknown, they'll not. People should not be forced to do something that they'd rather not do. If some of the market people choose not to come to honor her then good but it should not be forced down the throat of everybody.

Dudu_Negro:

Can you deny that the action of MASSOB brought about a new awakening for the Igbo identity? No, you cannot! The internet was flooded with Igbos who acclaimed the action as a unifying rouse and a new motivation for their spirit.

Constitution is a guide for the social order but it does not address everything in society. Should we include a statute in our constitution about Iyaloja in Yorubaland? Should we draft a "sit-at-home" clause for the constitution? We will be a joke of the democratic world. Thanksgiving is a time when businesses in US shut down but we cant find a "Thanksgiving Statute" anywherw in their constitution. Humans make laws. Laws are derivatives of our social exchanges. The law on Iyaloja is customary and rooted in the land, unless the Obas say otherwise, no President or Governor or Constitution can change it.

ilugunboy:

So far ..no Yoruba man or woman is complaining .....like I keep telling you..it's a Yoruba culture in a Yoruba land..learn to respect it for mutual benefit and peaceful co-existence otherwise you will regret it if you go against it...no constitution whatsoever will defend you.

It will be stupid of me as a Yoruba man to go or do anything against Omenala ndi Igbo in Igbo land.

Obi1kenobi:
For all the verbose, self-indulgent stuff you write here, it never masks the crass logic you come up with. Articulate and eloquent it may be, but with strange, degenerate logic. So many words saying nothing as you keep making a clown of yourself. Please, can anyone tell me if touts harrass people to enforce observation of Thanksgiving in the United States? What kind of false equivalence is that? Next you'll be comparing omoniles and agberos with IRS officials in the States. Cos I'm not aware such ever happens in a civilized nation. Mega City indeed. How can anybody look to justify closing market operations round an entire state because the mother of the godfather of agberos in Lagos is dead? Not even the queen of England would be afforded such outrageous pageantry.

They may as well enter Palms or Mega Plaza or any of the shopping malls or car dealerships to stop operations simply because an irrelevant political figure is dead. And some people with mo.ronic clannish justifications are trying to rationalize the absurdity. Unbelievable.

Obi1kenobi:
For all the verbose, self-indulgent stuff you write here, it never masks the crass logic you come up with. Articulate and eloquent it may be, but with strange, degenerate logic. So many words saying nothing as you keep making a clown of yourself. Please, can anyone tell me if touts harrass people to enforce observation of Thanksgiving in the United States? What kind of false equivalence is that? Next you'll be comparing omoniles and agberos with IRS officials in the States. Cos I'm not aware such ever happens in a civilized nation. Mega City indeed. How can anybody look to justify closing market operations round an entire state because the mother of the godfather of agberos in Lagos is dead? Not even the queen of England would be afforded such outrageous pageantry.

They may as well enter Palms or Mega Plaza or any of the shopping malls or car dealerships to stop operations simply because an irrelevant political figure is dead. And some people with mo.ronic clannish justifications are trying to rationalize the absurdity. Unbelievable.

Obi1kenobi:
Why do you purport to speak for all Yorubas? My Yoruba friends think the whole charade is a joke. Their sentiments aren't clouded by clannish, juvenile interests. Go ask the average Yoruba trader on the street if he gives a f**k about marking the passing of Tinubu's mother. Bear your grieving alone and don't saddle others with the burden of your grief. That's what a decent man does. Do not meddle in people's livelihoods like some phoney emperor.

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#FPN The Lagos State Govt did not order the markets closed. The association of market men & women decided to ...@ClassicFM973

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...close the markets in honour of their late leader, and to attend the program planned in her honour today. @ClassicFM973 #FPN

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#FPN The markets will only be closed for today. @ClassicFM973

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@benjeedayo Because the markets associations decided to do so in honour of their late President General, Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji.

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@LagosTownHall @ClassicFM973 #FPN local mkts close wen a trader dies. Iyaoloja is d Head of all mkts in Lagos so all have to honor her.

Obi1kenobi:
Why do you purport to speak for all Yorubas? My Yoruba friends think the whole charade is a joke. Their sentiments aren't clouded by clannish, juvenile interests. Go ask the average Yoruba trader on the street if he gives a f**k about marking the passing of Tinubu's mother. Bear your grieving alone and don't saddle others with the burden of your grief. That's what a decent man does. Do not meddle in people's livelihoods like some phoney emperor.

Saudat Salami ⁠ @lagosshoppin

@LagosTownHall @ClassicFM973 #FPN local mkts close wen a trader dies. Iyaoloja is d Head of all mkts in Lagos so all have to honor her.

Saudat Salami ⁠ @lagosshopping

@LagosTownHall @ClassicFM973 #FPN let's use this opportunity to enlighten our pple of our culture and tradition. We shld be proud of it.

Saudat Salami ⁠ @lagosshopping

@LagosTownHall @ClassicFM973 #FPN the learnings for future shld be a general announcement as soon as possible for pple to be prepared.

thelastPope:

stop being a tribalist my friend. Where did you hear that it is Igbos that are complaining. Are all the shops in Lagos owned by Igbos? Are all those who couldnt buy food since morning Igbos? Your tribalistic head cannot think straight again! Sad

Obi1kenobi:
What's this brain-dead cretin waffling on about? What does kidnapping have to do with anything? No civilized nation violently enforces any absurdities on people in the name of obsolete traditions. No one cares if people voluntarily shut up their shops and throw owambe to mark her passing. It's perfectly acceptable, but why should some Alaba/Aspamda/Ladipo trader be forced to commemorate the death of someone he's never even heard of by closing his shop for 2 days. So your pea brain tells you that it's only your people who mark the passing of their dead? For all your bleating about observance of the culture, I can assure you that well over 90% of your people would have resumed work in their shops/stalls/kiosks if they weren't scared of harrassment by touts. A big shame when a "mega city" is locked in the strangle hold of agberos and any whim they conjure. Culture/tradition my as.s.

Ola Johnson:
I now know your grouse: the inclusion of Alaba, Ladipo, and others like them, where the Igbo trade. On kidnapping, you show how it is becoming a culture in the SE which should be celebrated above the closing markets to honour an Iyaloja. O ne me gi obi ojo.

Obi1kenobi: And for those who keep going on about culture, please comprehend the real grievance and quit the red herring evasive arguments. The aggrieved have no issue with observing the rites, the issue is with enforcing it on people with no ties whatsoever to it and infringing on basic rights of people by meddling with their livelihoods. It's just like people having no problem with owambe parties as long as the road isn't blocked by the show. Get it in its simplicity and quit mindlessly regurgitating the same fallacy over and over.

Ola Johnson:
I now know your grouse: the inclusion of Alaba, Ladipo, and others like them, where the Igbo trade. On kidnapping, you show how it is becoming a culture in the SE which should be celebrated above the closing markets to honour an Iyaloja. O ne me gi obi ojo.

bory09: We have close our shop now, what is the benefit. I think lagos is a mega city competing to be cities like dubai, london, johannesburg. Is this how they close market there, did i say market, even those task force come to my forgotten street to close shop even when it comes to infrastructure they forget us but today they remembered us. Lagos is monopolise by tinubu and his ACN cohort that is for sure. If the tinubu himself die they will make it operation lock yourself inside. ACN ARE MADDAFUCKER THEIR OWN WORSE PASS GADAFFI.

Obi1kenobi:
Once again, you clown, what does kidnapping in the SE have to do with the topic? What does pointing out its irrelevance to the topic under discussion have to do with celebrating it? You're a simpleton, aren't you? My grouse is that I went to Agboju at Festac to get foodstuff, only to find it's been shut for 2 days because of jobless thugs who ensured its closure. Learn to read and quit exposing your failed education.

naptu2: The Lagos State Government did not close the markets.