Akanbi_edu:

So you actually think REMO should have a state?

tubabie:

No. What I did was to relate your wayward arguments to the real subject being discussed, which were the Yorubas in Kwara and Kogi states!

9jaganja:

These must be the silly breed of Yorubas. If they leave Kwara they'll lose Ilorin to impostors cause Ilorin will remain capital of Kwara. Why not push for others to have their own states so you can lord your own lands. Clueless fools

Jarus:

I don't have any problem with we Yoruba speaking northerners(Kwara and Kogi) coming together to form a state and come and joined to our brothers in the South West, but I have a number of issues to raise.

1, The first division will come from the name of the state. Oya is the Yoruba name for river Niger(I think). The Okun people of Kogi(Kabba and co) have been clamouring for Okun statefor long. The Offa people have been clamouring from Ibolo state for some time. We have three names here now, and I don't know how they will agree.

2, Another fierce division will come from the state capital. Offa and Kabba are two candidates for that but the latter have greater advantage being a province pre-independent. But I know my Offa people, they will rather prefer to remain under Ilorin than serving one Kabba again. Another wahala.

3, Another problem I foresee is the struggle for dominance. The Okun people of Kogi, Ibolo and Igbomina people of Kwara have strong history of rivalry right from their days as Kwara south before the creation of Kogi. I especially know my Offa people with their agidi. I'm afraid they may be strange fellows.

4, More serious agitations like Ibadan and Oke-Ogun states have not seen teh light of the day. It may take not a few decades before it gets to our turn.

5, As somebody stated earlier, instead of state creation, boundary adjustment may solve the problem.

If asked to say honestly my mind, I will say we are still day dreaming!

oyb:

this says it all. forget about self determination and all that , creation of oya state will lead the ijaw itsekiri/ife modakeke type beef

in the end, i just see it as some malcontents looking for relvnce - be the king of a hamlet rather than the subjct of a kingdom

dayokanu:


Tubabie and Jarus are my sister and brother respectively I dont want them to be grouped as Northerners.

biina:

Boundary adjustments can be used to accommodate wishes to be in a state with similar ethnic groups, or ensuring that minority ethnic groups are not split between states against their wish.

Aloy+Emeka:

I demand for Agaba state.

dayokanu:

I would support a state or boundary adjustment that gives the Yoruba ppl of Kwara and Kogi a separate identity.

Not having a distinct identity has hampered the growth of the area. When it comes to Politics the Notherners would call them North, when it comes to development and allocation sharing they would be called Yorubas.

Carve out the Yoruba speaking part of Kwara and Kogi state and make them one state under the SW,

Tubabie and Jarus are my sister and

brother respectively I dont want them to be grouped at Northerners.

while we're at it, we can also create another state for the igala, then one for the ebira, then one for the nupe, then one for the tapa (i forget how they call them)

Beaf:

--off topic---
Merge all sharia states.

Aloy+Emeka:

How many of you in Kogi that should warrant the creation of a new State?. Why not agitate instead to be annexed to Ekiti state?

oyb:

yes absolutely

while we're at it, we can also create another state for the igala, then one for the ebira, then one for the nupe, then one for the tapa (i forget how they call them)

by the time we're done carving and recarving , nigeria will be 300 states , some of which will be barely 10 kilometres wide

considering the fact that all the governors f kwara have been yoruba, i cannot undestand how not having a distinct identity has hampered  the growth of kwara state.

outside of lagos, which is a melting po of several tribes, there is no particularly viable yoruba state - so having a distinct identity confers absolutely no advantages -

the distinct idenity of oyo has not stopped some people from clamoring for 'ibadan state'

what the hell - oya - lets start the movement for festac state . we demand autonomy from the tyranny of core lagosians 

Shoot2Kill:

Retarded people constitute 70% of the Nigerian populace.

South Africa which is bigger than Nigeria in terms of Land Mass has only 9 states and they are well developed with infrastructure that is better than that of the USA and UK combined.

So shouldn't we ask our selves if we are normal at all? 

We have not generated enough electricity to power our nation but we are running around like the baboons that we are clamouring for state creation. Long throat na im go kill all of us.

The other day it was ISOKO state now it is OYa state ,maybe lagosians too will request for badagry state or Ajegunle state.

Darwin who said that Black people have smaller brains than whites is spot on. For all the education and fancy degrees we Nigerian boast about, we are pretty dumb     Imagine an architect making these statements

I can't believe i belong to a country of retards whose only ambition in life is to be silly and pursue silly ideas. 

Chai ,GOD why me? Why can't i be from Kenya, Botswana or Ghana, why does it have to be Nigeria? Why me

So shouldn't we ask our selves if we are normal at all?

Quote from: yemmight on March 05, 2010, 03:40 PM
Dont claim you know everything. I know what I am saying. Let them put us where we belong. Have you ever seen any aboki or ibo in south-west states? We belong to that region.
But they have Ijaw is South West(hope am right) and Ibo in South South.