Obi Cubana mother's Burial vs. Mike Adenuga mother's Burial:
Man narrates why the burial of Mike Adenuga’s mum remains the SI unit of burials.

Oba 0IaseniOladejo wrote:

"No burial can match up to Mike Adenuga mother's burial sha. First, they shared cows to every street in ljebu-igbo. I mean every street had one cow each. For a whole week, there was meat every where you stepped to in ljebu-igbo. On the day of the burial itself, there was asun stand for mo gbo mo ya, majorly 00U students inside Abusi Edumare. They packed trucks filled with cartons of beer. Trucks o. You take as much crates as you can. No restrictions to how many people can attend."

"Mike Adenuga built a cathedral, and a mission house in the compound where they buried his mum. His father died in the 80s, they went to dig the corpse and transferred it to the same compound where the mother was buried.

Gbenga Daniel tarred Oru/ljebu-igbo road and installed atreet lights for the burial. And they had different musicians performing each day for the whole week. KSA, Yinka Ayefele etc. I've not seen anything like that before. This was in 2005 or thereabout."

"Omo, we went home with crates of alcohol. Earlier in the week, they came to share cow parts for us at home as our share of the meat meant for the street. It was a total shut down for one week. Obasanjo and almost all the governors attended.

Madness. Madness that I can never forget. When Mike Adenuga's daughter came to spray KSA on the field, you need to see her entourage. By entourage, I mean her friends that are following and shielding her. Padi mi, money is good in this life.

They had like four or five different groups of people attending the party at the same time. The one inside the compound is for the president and governors. State legislators were on the field. Families camped elsewhere or the field. Different groups. Then there is the open one.

Allahu! And you can't access the different groups if you don't belong there despite all of them happening in the same place. Omo! That was a one time event in this life. Money was spent."

Still on Obi Cubana mother's Burial


Cubana chief priest throws money on Ababanna as he performs live in Oba


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_U3gAGmKBQ

Still on Obi Cubana mother's Burial

Obi Cubana sprays 1 million naira on Uche Warrior (sir Warrior Junior) as he performs live in Oba watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2S-5-Gyvc

These attitude towards celebrating occasions has dragged the black man backwards.
They say an African loves to dance... whether in marriage,death or birth...we just love to dance... imagine if Obi Cubana and his cohorts as rich as they claim to could pull their resources creatively towards the development of their immediate environs that untarred road I saw in Obi Cubana's village no for dey...
It's almost a crime celebrating lavishly in the midst of poverty...
Roast me please

zoeA:
These attitude towards celebrating occasions has dragged the black man backwards.
They say an African loves to dance... whether in marriage,death or birth...we just love to dance... imagine if Obi Cubana and his cohorts as rich as they claim to could pull their resources creatively towards the development of their immediate environs that I tarred road I saw in Obi Cubana's village no for dey...
It's almost a crime celebrating lavishly in the midst of poverty...
Roast me please

They're coming for you! One phrase you should expect to see Lik one thousand times is "poverty mentality".

And what has that contributed to our IGR?

We are celebrating the best burial while rational countries are celebrating the latest scientific and technological invention

zoeA:
These attitude towards celebrating occasions has dragged the black man backwards.
They say an African loves to dance... whether in marriage,death or birth...we just love to dance... imagine if Obi Cubana and his cohorts as rich as they claim to could pull their resources creatively towards the development of their immediate environs that untarred road I saw in Obi Cubana's village no for dey...
It's almost a crime celebrating lavishly in the midst of poverty...
Roast me please

but they are not the government. Would Nigerians vote for him if he became the President?

Amotolongbo:
And what has that contributed to our IGR?

We are celebrating the best burial whole rational countries are celebrating the latest scientific and technological invention

but obi is not the government. His friends and family are the ones celebrating him all over social media. I bet you if buhari was alive to his responsibilities our IGR would boom so much that people will celebrate it. What is Abba kyari doing in the burial?

Lol

Sooo na burial dey reign now? No be wedding again

what sort of useless comparison is this?? Is this what we ought to be celebrating? Choi. May God help the black race

No need for comparism..


Reeks of low esteem

Rest and stop the comparison.
Nobody is competing with you.

Nwokem zukwanuike.

Yoruba people and jealousy be like bread and akara. So burial don turn competition? Very rotten mentality

Someone actually wrote this? This is what we’re now debating, who’s burial was a bigger hit

Lol
Burial now have competition.

"When you're succeeding, you would have no reason for pride" - Archbishop Benson Andrew Idahosa

I think we've had enough of this burial thing, even to the point of comparison, and it is caused by the publicity crew of the Cubana's bombarding Nairaland day and night with publicity stunts. They shove it down our throats that these guys are billionaires, and they mention one Jowizaza as a billionaire, whom I never heard of or seen on the dailies. But it fine, we can move on now.

But one thing is certain, the pettyness of calling everyone a Billionaire is robbing us of simple knowledge and eroding our intelligence here on Nairaland.

Adenuga and the likes are in the class of listed Billionaires on the Billionaires index, these guys roll with Presidents and own Oil Wells and employ thousands of families, unfortunately, we don't know much of these showbiz boys (forgive me, I call them boys) with PR crews that are constantly bombarding Nairaland for publicity stuff.

Just for reference, Billionaires from the Eastern Flock:

GiG Motors
Orange Drugs
ABC Motors
Emzor Pharmaceuticals
Cosmos Maduka
Pascal Dozie
Innoson Motors
Ibeto Cement
Young Shall Grow
GUO Motors

NB: Some of these guys quoted above have their companies listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE); Abeg I no fit shout.

Real Billionaires don't make noise and have no need for publicity. They're the real MVPs and Role Models we should all aspire to become. They're employers of thousands, own Industries and enable people to put foods on their tables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire

Edit:

I read from this BBC Pidgin page that Obi Cubana's Chain of Clubs in Nigeria is worth $2 Billion USD - https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-57872163
On another same BBC Pidgin page, they said he is worth $96 Million USD, but unverified - https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-57872724

Peace

People wen use their money bury their mama dey different, your own na to type and do similarities and differences. Na person wen nor get money dey always get something to write about!

Now we are comparing burials?

It is finished!

Burial competition
and a moderator pushed this to the front page
so that we can start abusing each other and dividing us the more.

It's terrible. They have ask us not to report killing of innocent citizens by terrorist. Southern Southern Nigeria wake up

Money pass money. Oluwa bless me with money. I want to help people

The Yorubas always sees an igbo man as a threat.. don't know why.



Mind you am a southernal.



Seûn moved this to front-page...to tell you, hes a tribalist bigot.

we keep celebrating mediocrity in this part of the world

This one wants to turn it to tribal war

I am number one pmb critic but I agree with him to some extent when he said Nigerian youths are lazy. E don reach to the compare burial now. INEC continuous voters registration is ongoing but this is the subject matter youths are more concerned about. Hmm

Like play burial don turn competition

O chi m ooo

All haqqumu takathur
(The mutual rivalry for piling up wealth diverts you)


Hatazurtumu maqorbii (until you visit the graves)

Kala saofa tahlamun (surely you will come to know)

Tsuma kala saofa tahlamun (again surely! You will come to know)

Kala laotahlamuna ilman yekin
(If only you knew with a clear knowledge)

Latara unal jaheem ( You will see the hellfire)

Tsuma latara unaha ainal yakeen
(Again!, you will see the hellfire with certainty of sight)

Tsuma latus aluna yaoma izin anil naheem
(Then you will be asked on that day about your indulgence)


May Allah not allow the Muslims to descend to this point where we carry our competition into arguing about who had a better burial or grave. That was the reason Surat takathur was revealed. The Quraish would argue about the nobility of their dead men and even extend it to the grave saying things like "did you have such and such a one ?"

The entire lessons of death is lost and reduced to petty babbles of this duniya. Failing to realise that the wealth of this duniya does not transcend to the akhira except by virtue of our deeds is a major defect of ones mental health. That is why we see people burying their loved ones with Benz, golden caskets, air-conditioning and all. Whereas the wealth or poverty of a dead person is already with him in the grave mashaAllah.

While mourning, remember the actual thing that is happening. We are returning to our Creator. And in a couple of years, even the mourners will be mourned. Our deeds is what count. A poor righteous man who was steadfast in his striving in the course of Allah is better that a dead multi billionaire, even though the former was buried in a simple white cloth, and the later was buried with billions of cash inside an airplane.

Ya Allah, do not make this duniya of Paramount concern to us, nor the ultimate of our knowledge. Ameen