₦airaland Forum

Godfatherism!

Not surprised. Man’s heart is evil.

Nice one there.

What happened to this country...? It’s supposed to be a great nation.

I can’t comprehend what happened to this country. It’s supposed to be a great nation.

alexistaiwo:

Lots of sweet talks from politicians yet the heart is full of evil.

ProfAmaben:
You loved humanity and lived an excellent life. Well done sir!

The life of an atheist who values humanity is better than being an hypocritical moslem or christian that can kill for their God.

The Gates family just like the Rockefellers can never be wiped away from the sands of time.

Rest on sir.

Well said.

Abouwaza:
Another gbedu wey dey burst brain

Now this is funny

Way to go

sapientia:
He is now writing letters

Lol
Internet never forget.

Face your fear Nigerians.

Which kind wahala be this for this country...

MejiLoyon:
Everything na avenue for these guys to scam
Na so them control my niece Wey come do holiday for my end.
I never knew that she came under the guise of holiday. Them Don program anty from Ibadan say central recruitment team dey Lagos.
This same amotekun o.
I sha see say my niece wen if she come house na she dey commandeer my Netflix with Korean romance dey watch action movies all of a sudden.
Extraction, bloodshot all the Gbogbo she dey watch am.
When she watch kung-fu hustle na him I know say something dey wrong.
The day I start to hear hia hia hia for her room na him I know say dem Don get her. My soft niece dey practice shakpanshuu.
Modaran.
Na him I press her well well. She later confess say she dey practice for amotekun recruitment for Agege.
I do like say I understand Waka comot for her end.
Sharply I make some sweet calls. Sharp sharp Them round them up. No be money Wey dem collect for her hand even pain me. If you see as these guys be like dry fish. They looked so haggard that the dpo had to say make we pity them.

Amotekun commandos
It is well

Ah!!!

Too bad for a nation

Heart of a man is the evil known.

LaboPolitics:
yorubas should first unite themselves first. Ewedu muslims singing soprano, yoro-christian throwing shekere. No unison.

Are they serious? Just asking.

azmanaty02:
It seems these people don't know what they want.

Today, we want president, tomorrow we want oduduwa republic. The next day, we want restructuring.

Acrimony And Confusion In Yoruba World Congress

By Titilope Joseph On Sep 13, 2020 1:26 AM


LAGOS – The recent happening in the camp of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC) which has been at the forefront of struggling for the liberation of the Yoruba race in Nigeria and the diaspora may be the end of the fight against slavery and independent of the Oodua Nation as they claimed in their agenda of promoting the in­terest of the race.

Without mincing words, the recent happening in the camp of Yoruba leaders is a cause to worry about and if not handled probably may jeopardize the com­radeship and brotherhood vision they all shared in achieving the desired Yoruba state they all clamoured so much for.

The YWC is the umbrella body of Yoruba people and groups across the globe. It is made up of representative body of over 300 Yoruba groups worldwide. Its main agenda is to promote, de­fend and achieve the collective growth and developmental aspi­rations and interests, prosperity, security, wellbeing, welfare and sustenance of Yoruba people and culture.

Erudite professor, Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, was elected the leader of the group with four persons as major members of the committee.

In the past one year, YWC has gained the attention and respect of many Yoruba people at home and abroad because of its innova­tive ways of doing things.

In just one year, YWC has host­ed what was agreed to be the big­gest town hall meeting ever held. The event saw the largest ever gathering of Yoruba groups and leaders featuring over 1,800 del­egates from 27 countries in five continents.

However, there seems to be a discord among the group which now has fractionalised following the crisis that has ensued among them as some members of the executive expressed their loss of confidence in the leadership of Akintoye.

The body that was formed just over a year ago to start a new dawn in the Yoruba nation seems to be reaching its end due to infighting caused by allega­tions of various kinds among its leadership.


In August, four notable mem­bers of the executive had issued a statement on the removal of their national leader, sighting gross in­competence, indecisiveness and absolute disregard for laid down rules as reason behind the sack of Akintoye.

There is no doubt that the current crisis might jeopardise the achievements and accom­plishment recorded so far by the group. It would be recalled that the challenge of the group be­came a thing of concern on Au­gust 25, when a press statement signed by Akintoye, and some other names communicated that some members of the YWC Lead­ers Council had been removed.

The Emeritus professor had announced that Anthony Kila, the secretary of the group, a NA­DECO veteran, Amos Akingba, Tola Adeniyi, and Solagbade Popoola who were all elected as executives of YWC, have been sacked.

This step was however consid­ered an extreme measure against respected YWC leaders by Akin­toye who did not state the reason why these leaders were sacked from their post or when and how the decision was taken before the information was shared with the media.

Meanwhile, the group mem­bers have been going back and forth on the sack of their mem­bers as the said members alleged­ly sacked also issued a statement that the leader who sacked them has also been sacked by them.

In a statement made avail­able by National Secretary of the YWC, Prof. Anthony Kila, on August 30, and jointly signed by four of the co-founders of the worldwide organization, Dr. Amos Akingba, Chief Tola Ad­eniyi, Chief Solagbade Popoola and Kila, and shared with all registered members of the YWC, Prof Akintoye was charged with gross incompetence, indecisive­ness, obnoxious dictatorship and absolute disregard for laid down rules and order, lack of consisten­cy and reliability.

The statement added: “Akin­toye has one leg in the motley associations which elected him Yoruba leader at Ibadan August 2019, another leg in Afenifere, a leading Pan-Yoruba socio-cultur­al political organisation where he is the chairman of that body’s po­litical committee and strangely another leg in YWC where he has been decorated as protem leader since late 2018.

His legendary divisiveness has created unprecedented ac­rimony and confusion in all the listed entities, particularly in the Europe and America chapters of the YWC.”

In retaliation to the previous reaction by the Kila group, coali­tion of Yoruba groups, under the aegis of Yoruba World Congress, also passed a vote of confidence on Akintoye as the leader of the YWC.

The coalition passed the vote of confidence on Akintoye on Tuesday in Ibadan, Oyo State at a press conference to mark the first anniversary of the Congress and to assess the state of affairs of the Yoruba race, a day after he was sacked as leader by the Co-Founders of the YWC.

Dr. Tunde Amusat, the Con­vener, Odu’a Coalition Against Insurgency and Kidnapping in Yorubaland, said leaders of various Yoruba groups in Nige­ria were gathered to affirm the mandate given to Akintoye for the protection of Yoruba people and Yorubaland.

Amusat said: “You will recall that on August 22, 2019, the leaders of almost 50 pan-Yoruba self-deter­mination organisations assembled in Ibadan to unanimously elect Prof. Banji Akintoye as the Leader of the Yoruba Nation.

“Subsequently, the Yoruba World Congress came to be the um­brella organisation of the groups, with Prof. Banji Akintoye as the president.

“Since that time, over 100 Yoru­ba organisations, both in Nigeria and in the diaspora, have been admitted into the YWC and still counting as members.

“While celebrating the one year anniversary of YWC, we also want to reaffirm our unal­loyed confidence in the leader­ship of Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye.

“We wish to salute his uncom­mon courage and uncompromis­ing doggedness in translating the Yoruba redemption agenda and vision into action within the con­text of the finest Omoluabi ethos and traditions.”

He further said the admission of YWC into the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisa­tion within a year of its existence was novel and commendable.

Amusat said the Oodua Nation project was on course and appre­ciated the efforts of Akintoye and other leaders in that respect.

He said: “The Yoruba World Congress is one and indivisible under the leadership of Emeritus Prof Banji Akintoye.”

Meanwhile, the Co-Founders of the Yoruba World Congress have also threatened to drag Akintoye to court if a statement credited to him and some other backing his leadership of the YWC was not withdrawn.

The Co-Founders – Dr. Amos Akingba, Akogun Tola Adeni­yi, Chief Solagbade Popoola and Prof. Anthony Kila – under the Leaders Council, issued the threat after a group declared Akintoye as the substantive lead­er of the YWC.

“The YWC is a content-based global organisation populated by disciplined and principled mem­bers with a clear sense of history and that holds in high esteem the Yoruba dignity, image and unity but we shall not let our members be slandered.

“The YWC wishes to reassure all its members that we shall not be derailed by anyone because our vision has been very clear before the Ibadan election of a Yoruba leader and we remain fo­cus on the emancipation of Yoru­ba Nation,” the statement reads.

Yorubas Are Each Other’s Enemy – Members

A member of the YWC, ‘Papa­Tee in his reaction said his wor­ry has been ably expressed in a write- up where he stated that the “Yoruba race can’t organise itself”? Our tradition over the years is to always “destroy that proverbial house” we have built together if nothing seems working in our fa­vour.

Everyone wants to be leader, some people belong to a founda­tion for the sake of selfish oppor­tunities and what to steal there from. Some are moles planted by circumstances, some are looking for undue publicity and other pe­destrian stupidity that goes with the ephemeral and once they be­lieve that all these are not coming their ways the next thing to do is to pull down the house. They cared not if their action would end up destroying themselves along with others. That has been the pattern of our orientation and thinking over the years oth­erwise over 150 associations in the life of a single race should be worrisome to any reasonable individual. They are the very reason right from Baba Awolowo days till now why the Yoruba race hasn’t got to the promise land. It’s always in their nature to do evil.

Another member identified Odusoga said, “I was almost moved to tears when I saw the inscription on some of the placards carried by the anti Oduduwa Nation protest­ers in Ibadan.

“We don’t want our Greenland to turn to a war zone,” says one of the placards.

Honestly, I don’t know how some corrupt and ill-informed Yorubas view the ongoing situation.

“We are talking about libera­tion from slavery here. Are they daft? These morons should wake up and smell the coffee, Yoruba land is already a war zone where the cells of Fulani militia are well dug in awaiting the code to com­mence war. These are the people who will rather allow their fam­ily to be slaughtered instead of defending them.

“What kind of people are these? How much were they paid to sell their birth right? As for me and my family, we will get to the prom­ise land with YWC,” he said.

https://www.independent.ng/acrimony-and-confusion-in-yoruba-world-congress/

How Ken Saro-Wiwa sabotaged Aburi Accord— IPOB Founder

ON SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 5:30 PM

Mr. Emeka Emekesiri, the man that “founded and nurtured Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, before it was hijacked,” has said some stakeholders in the South-South led by late rights activist and author, Ken Saro-Wiwa, sabotaged the Aburi Accord.

Emekesiri, a legal practitioner, said this in his presentation to Igbo Congress at the 3rd Quarter Board/HOD Meeting, adding that Saro-Wiwa’s actions led to the then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon(retd) splitting the South-East Region into three states on May 27, 1967.

Aburi Accord refers to the set of agreements reached at Aburi, Ghana, between January 4 and 5, 1967 by delegates of the Federal Government led by Gowon, and the Eastern delegates, led by late Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, at the height of political unrest, precipitating the Civil War.

It is the breakdown of this agreement that Emekesiri told the Igbo Congress Quarter Board/HOD Meeting can be blamed on Saro-Wiwa.

He said: “I am aware that many people have blamed General Yakubu Gowon for the failure to implement the Aburi Accord. Yes, the buck stopped at his desk.

“But many people who are crying today joined in the betrayal and subversion of the will of the people expressed in the Aburi Accord.

“Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, in his book, ‘On a Darkling Plain’, (Pages 61 to 62), said as follows: ‘When news came that general agreement had been reached at a cordial meeting in Aburi, there was general elation.

“‘Ojukwu returned and spoke in glowing terms of Aburi. He had virtually achieved his confederal aims; if the decisions of Aburi were implemented, there was little doubt that peace would return to Nigeria.

“‘The generality of Igbo were cock-a-hoop about Aburi— it was inconceivable that an Igbo would go to bargain with Hausa and fail to win.

“‘The non-Igbo, on the other hand, were dismayed: it looked as though the nation had sold them to the Igbo. In Rivers circles particularly, there was great agitation. Some showed their dismay openly’.”

Emekesiri said according to Saro-Wiwa, the non-Igbo were not happy with the Aburi Accord, which created a confederation of regional governments.

He continued: “In the book, he told the story of how he took some of the chiefs in the riverine areas, went to Lagos and defected to the Nigerian side.

“He told General Gowon that the non-Igbo in Eastern Nigeria did not want to be joined with the Igbo in the same region and did not want Biafra.

“Consequently, General Gowon violated the Aburi Accord and divided the Eastern Region into three on May 27, 1967 by creating three states: East Central State, with headquarters at Enugu; Rivers State, Port Harcourt, and South-Eastern State, Calabar.

“Three days later, on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu declared the Republic of Biafra. This was a wrong move in political calculations because the region had already been divided three days earlier.

“It was a masterstroke by General Gowon. The Rivers State and South Eastern State had been given their own separate political identities three days before Biafra was declared

“The whole Eastern Region was no longer one entity on 30 May 1967. Mr Ken Saro-Wiwa said that their rejection of Biafra and rejection of being together with the Igbo in the same region was based on their fear that the Igbo people would dominate over them.

“In fact, he used a phrase that the Nigerian Government had sold them to the Igbo as slaves by signing the Aburi Accord.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/

Too bad

We can’t forget all the whole praises and the same pattern used for Buhari so soon.

‘Akufo-Addo risks Ghana’s economy by playing games with Nigeria’

By Tareq Hassan

Despite largely prosperous diplomatic and trade relations over the last few decades, relations between Nigeria and Ghana have soured in recent months. Unless cooler heads prevail, the wide-ranging dispute may threaten growth and democracy in West Africa’s two most powerful nations.

Considering the political and economic repercussions of previous feuds, especially against the backdrop of the pandemic, it’s surprising that the Ghanaian government under incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo and the Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari have failed to quell public anger.

While the Akufo-Addo government in Ghana pleads ignorance of any wrongdoing, Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) officials have been locking Nigerian-owned storefronts, seizing warehoused goods, and demolishing trading centres. So far, GUTA officials have forcibly closed 600 Nigerian shops in 2019 and 250 Nigerian shops in 2020. According to Nigerian business owners, recent government regulations have made it near-impossible for foreign nationals to receive approval for a retail trading permit.

Despite widespread condemnation from Ghana’s own Trade Ministry, Akufo-Addo — in what is likely an attempt to curry political favour with Ghana’s industrialists — has obstructed any attempt to find a civilized solution. Akufo-Addo’s government has also been implicated in the seizure and demolishing of a building in the Nigerian High Commission compound in Accra. Under international law, this unscheduled destruction of a diplomatic compound is in contravention of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Aside from international legal questions, the Akufo-Addo government has also been accused of illegal deportation of Nigerian citizens.

In a strongly-worded official statement, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information & Culture denounced Akufo-Addo for his incendiary rhetoric and tepid engagement with Nigerian representatives. In the same statement, the Federal Ministry of Information & Culture formally accused Ghanaian authorities of unlawful persecution of Nigerian-born foreign nationals and repeated breaches of the Vienna Convention.

With tensions between Nigeria and Ghana threatening to boil over, representatives of the Nigerian government have been diplomatically obstructed and stonewalled. Akufo-Addo’s impulsive treatment of Nigerian representatives is a microcosm of a broader trend of his government’s inattention and neglect amid an election year – a trend that has now turned a minor trade dispute into a major political crisis.

Ironically, by prioritizing his own reelection campaign, Akufo-Addo has allowed a diplomatic row with Nigeria to escalate to the point where it now threatens to undermine crucial bilateral economic relations. After a COVID-19 induced economic contraction sent Ghana’s growth forecasts to a 37-year low, mounting tensions with Nigeria threaten to hurt Ghanaians jobs and incomes as the country rely heavily on Nigerian imports and trade.

Over one million Nigerians work in Ghana, an important part of the labour force in the West African nation. Ghana’s $165 million worth of exports to Nigeria could also suffer from the tensions, weighing heavily on Ghana’s jobs and incomes. Ghana’s crucial imports from Nigeria are also predicted to decline if a diplomatic solution is not reached. Last year, 17% of Ghana’s total imports came from Nigeria, including food and beverages, minerals, and even boats to support Ghana’s fishing and maritime industries. A breakdown in trade relations between Ghana and Nigeria would likely leave Ghana reeling – a weakened budget, expensive food, and labour shortages.

Mindful of the looming public relations nightmare, Akufo-Addo has turned to the media to shore up crumbling public opinion. Even as diplomatic channels are left unattended, the Akufo-Addo government has had no problem leveraging its influence over state-run broadcasters and friendly radio channels to snipe at Nigerian policymakers and attack the Nigerian business community in Ghana. This is especially concerning due to the Nigerian accusation of a “Media war against Nigerians in Ghana.”

Akufo-Addo’s National Patriotic Party’s brazen appropriation of public communications is especially disheartening considering that Ghana was once regarded as a regional bastion of democracy and press freedom. In the last three years, Ghana has seen the closing of radio stations tied to opposition groups, and broadcast contracts awarded to the close friends of influential NPP members like Kennedy Agyapong and Gabby Asare Otchere Darko.

If conditions on the ground in Ghana continue to deteriorate at their current pace, what started as a modest diplomatic row regarding foreign-owned small businesses could quickly escalate to a serious regression in bilateral relations between Nigeria and Ghana. The dramatic downturn in bilateral relations between the countries could isolate Ghana’s economy, increase prices, and crush the local job market. As Akufo-Addo nears the end of a divisive re-election campaign, he needs to understand that Ghana does not need an economic feud with Nigeria.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/

Justice to be served fast

MejiLoyon:
Just being alive dey vex them
I Don see where police stop one guy tell am say make he open him teeth. I swear, bros teeth be like rusted zinc roof. Na here I forrr for olopa

Olopa "bros why your teeth dirty like this, you no get toothpaste? You wey no get toothpaste how you take dey brush not to talk of food. You say wetin? You dey hustle for food. Which kind hustle? I sure na tiff you be. Youre under arrest.

Na their I burst laff

This is a case of being too lazy to be tattered

olawalepopoola:
This guy isn't normal at all

Lol