This thread will never be complete without mentioning the legendary Babyosisi, arguably the most powerful woman to have walked on nairaland, only rivaled by Desola..

cc Superstar1

AgentOrange:
This thread will never be complete without mentioning the legendary Babyosisi, arguably the most powerful woman to have walked on nairaland, only rivaled by Desola..

cc Superstar1

Yessssssss. You are right. I forgot that moniker totally.

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superstar1:
10years ago I was gisting with my cousin in UK and he asked me whether i have registered on the new raving forum in Nigeria, Nairaland. I told him I do not even have any idea that the new Forum exists. I quickly logged on and found one elementary website bearing Nairaland. Not deterred by the perceived elementary outlook of the forum, I registered and was happy to belong to a platform where i can air my view ona ny issue about my country to the world.

I only restricted myself to Sport section, most especially Manchester United thread. I do peep into Politics, culture and tribal sections once in a while, but there was really nothing unusual apart from the usual news we all have access to in the regular media. Culture section was more informative with some NL encyclopedia lecturing on us who we are as Africans and other cultural stuffs. Due respect to AndreUwe and Fulamania.

Fast forward to mid-2008, Politics section started getting hot with waves upon waves of attacks on Yorubas from Igbos who were spewing their remixed version and make-me-happy tales by moonlight of their Fathers and Uncles false heroics. Major cuplrits were Deridegull, Chino, Oneast or Chinology. Most guys ignored them except Dayokanu that made it a point of duty to decimate all their claims, with Katsumoto delivering irrefutable facts to nullify all animosities against the Yorubas. The hours upon hours of lectures and counter ectures from Katsumoto and Deridegull or Duru1 were very informative. By early 2010, subtle warnings were being sent to Seun to curb tribalism in Politics section, he did not see it as anything serious. By mid-2010, other yorubas felt enough is enough of these shenanigans coming from igbos. The likes of OPCNairaland, MayorofLagos, jakumo, IlekeHD, Gbawe, Aareonakakanfo, Shymexx,led the full scale attack, with Desola being the only female, always hitting the mark in a very subtle but effective way.

This culminated in the myth bursting season, monicker expose season, the season of truce with rendezvous at Beerhugz Ikeja. Ngozievergreen will never forget NL. Those were very brutal days in Politics section of NL. 2015 election brought out the good, the bad and the ugly of NL. It was a propaganda and campaign ground for the major political parties. That was the season of PPP -Pay Per Post. Post election ushered in the cry for bia.fra season. Seun responded to this cry in a manner that has never been seen before on NL. I am not sure DSS did not threaten him on that particular issue.

Due to the clamp down on secession cries, some threatened to migrate out of NL and never to come back. They left, they were not missed and voila, they are back. Some even created parallel fora that never had the pull effect of NL and such fora died a natural death.

We are presently in the season of indiscriminate bans. Just came back from a lengthy ban and i cannot even guarantee not being banned before end of today. . We have seen it all on NL.

The diversity of opinion and the scintillating presentations of some are what make NL thick and addictive. It will be the highest hypocrisy if I fail to mention that tribalism and ethic jabs are also part of the fun of NL, that you might not really get elsewhere, except on Vanguard online and probably Facebook. In the midst of the jabs, we learn one or two things. Atimes some jabs make you to read up on such jabs and you will come back to give a merciless counterjabs. . Veterans will understand what i am talking about.

Government agencies, political parties, security agencies and even print media now know that anyone that ignores NL is doing so at his or own peril. This is a classical example of online forum that has given power to the youths and masses. Here, we can report any agency or personnel of government or corporation or individuals that misbehaves in real time without any fear of harassment, which was prevalent in the days of the likes of Fela and Gani Fawehinmi.

By and large, I have learnt a lot from NL in the last 10years. While growing up, I was never interested in who were our forefathers as Africans, who we were as a people, the events that led to the amalgamation of North and South, the civil war, Awo, Zik, Ahmadu Bello or Oduduwa. The contributions of all from every nook and cranny of Nigeria challenged me to read up, to separate the truth from fallacy. I had to read virtually every book or write up ever written on Nigerian Civil War, Pre and post-independence era, the days of the Evil Genius Maradona, the dark days of Abacha and the emergence of the 4th republic democracy in Nigeria. I also picked interest in the top 5-7 ethnicities in Nigeria and I had to read up on their histories too.

Seun thanks for creating this forum. It has been an avenue for youths to air their opinion freely, demand better governance and forge a better country for ourselves. Even the ethnic jabs is forcing all parties to have mutual respect for ourselves despite all the animosities and probably collaborate to achieve an objective of a better country.

I am specially hailing Katsumoto, Dayokanu, Desola, Chino, Abagworo, Shymexx, Duru1, Dede1 AndreUwe, Fulanmania, Aresa, OrlandoOwoh, Ijakumo, Modath, Soundking, Sunnybobo, Anonimi, StBlack, StOla, arewafederation, AareOnakakanfo, cheruv, debosky, PenSniper, eggheaders, oduastates, Ngwakwe, EzeNri, dearpreye, dozzybaba (mad-dest boy on NL), VICTORCIZA, OPCNairailand, NgeneUkwenu, idupaul, MayorofLagos, T9sky, pazienza, Jason123 Deridegull, IlekeHD, ACM10, raumdeuter, odenigboaroli, 9jacrip, Aigbofa, Beaf, Passingshot, nduchucks, Iyangbali, fiiznation, Firefire, Omenka, Orikinla, Anonimi, Aljarem, Berem, ijawmilitant, EasternActivist, Babyosisi, JAckBaueress1, Freeglobe, ANAMBRAII, tupacshakur, Zimoni, demdem, kobojunkie, fstranger, barcanista or is it Tonyebarcanista, ezeagu, obiagu1, basilo101, tonychristopher etc You contributed immensely in making NL a vibrant social forum it is today, most especially the Politics section.

Looking forward to another decade.

Thanks for your dedicated service and recognition too.


I had spent lots of years consuming information in volumes of encyclopaedia britannica, biographies, autobiographies and historical accounts on people, places, countries, events and organisations.

I took an interest in political forums and programmes on CNN (Cafferty File) in the build up of the Obama primary campaign and eventual primary and presidential election wins. I enjoyed the back and forth arguments from the contributors, even making a couple of contributions of my own while seated in Lagos Nigeria.

I was totally oblivious of what Nairaland had to offer as regards contributing to the national discourse in my own country, despite knowing that the forum existed. Later on in early 2012, I got to experience Nairaland from the fits of laughter from a work colleague who was lucky to be the only one whose PC had not been barred from accessing non-work related websites, allowing him to make Nairaland his source information and amusement.

Luck soon smiled on my colleague who moved on to a better job offer, and I got drafted to his own unit and inherited his unrestricted computer. This allowed me to encounter Nairaland front page stories by default whenever the internet browser was launched. I soon got tired of watching by the sidelines as religious God of Men and their religious junkie zombies ran riot all over the religion section.

Indeed, I signed up to Nairaland not for the politics that had previously attracted me to foreign fora, but to save the gullible from religion induced mental slavery. With time I soon realised the Politics section was a natural habitat for me, and forsook the religious arguments that did nobody any good in this world that we know nor changed the society for the benefit of those not posing behind the pulpit or holding the fraudulent tithe collection box.

In all, Nairaland has been very instrumental to giving everyone a voice and debating opinions and very bright ideas. Unfortunately, it has also served as a medium to vent ethnic frustration from all quarters, helping to crystallize the hate and mistrust that had always existed from the beginning of our absurd nationhood.

It is a great thing that superstar1 has come this far amidst the bans and metamorphosis of identity. Nairaland truly owes its present success to dedicated and devoted members like you, your contemporaries, and even your adversaries.

Cheers!

Hmmmm

StOla:
In all, Nairaland has been very instrumental to giving everyone a voice and debating opinions and very bright ideas. Unfortunately, it has also served as a medium to vent ethnic frustration from all quarters, helping to crystallize the hate and mistrust that had always existed from the beginning of our absurd nationhood.

It is a great thing that superstar1 has come this far amidst the bans and metamorphosis of identity. Nairaland truly owes its present success to dedicated and devoted members like you, your contemporaries, and even your adversaries.

Cheers!

Thanks Bro.

The truth is ethnicity and tribalism lie in the hearts of most Nigerians with indoctrinated stereotyping.

Where's Rhino5dm?

AgentOrange:
This thread will never be complete without mentioning the legendary Babyosisi, arguably the most powerful woman to have walked on nairaland, only rivaled by Desola..

cc Superstar1

Naso

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superstar1:

Pazienza, what shall it profit a man to be lying on NL.

There are thousands of threads i can pull out for you that showed Igbos started the bashing and they reigned supreme from 2008 till 2010, before the retaliation.

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Fine face, ugly heart, obsessed with lies and coprophagic behaviour - a dysfunctional trait inherited from his slimy progenitors.

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