@KnowAll, as a Northerner, let me tell you that Northerners have never rejected Illorin people. Illorin has been culturally part of the North for hundreds of years while still remaining Yoruba. The cap you are talking about is not a Hausa cap. It's a cap worn across the North. In fact the best makers of that cap are found in Borno and not in Hausaland.

Another thing you may find difficult to comprehend is that for Muslims, faith brotherhood comes before ethnic brotherhood. Being too ethnocentric is frowned at in Islam. It is considered a sign of ignorance. Logically it is wrong to hate somebody for his ethnicity because he didn't chose which ethnic group to be born into.

WHAT is all these lecture? Are there no Muslims in the SW. I beg, your strategy to continue enslaving the Kwarans has been exposed and it is time the people wake up and know we are in Nigeria of 2011 and not Dan Fodio's conquered empire of the 1830's

IG:

@KnowAll, as a Northerner, let me tell you that Northerners have never rejected Illorin people. Illorin has been culturally part of the North for hundreds of years while still remaining Yoruba. The cap you are talking about is not a Hausa cap. It's a cap worn across the North. In fact the best makers of that cap are found in Borno and not in Hausaland.

Another thing you may find difficult to comprehend is that for Muslims, faith brotherhood comes before ethnic brotherhood. Being too ethnocentric is frowned at in Islam. It is considered a sign of ignorance. Logically it is wrong to hate somebody for his ethnicity because he didn't chose which ethnic group to be born into.

olawalebab:

Desola, pls i want to ask you this simple question and will appreciate it if you can reply me. What problem did you have with Kwara(n)?

Desola:

Simple! You guys are sell outs and it hurts me that you still call yourselves Yorubas! When Nigeria breaks up today, it kills me to know that you will align with the abokis or that if ever you come to our side, you'd be stooges!

olawalebab:

Thanks for that innocent response. Am a full blooded yoruba man, to the core. Going by Nigeria political configuration, kwara falls in the north(dominated by the hausa). Yoruba Kwara has not benefits from all the goodies Awo give the yoruba south west rather they benefits from Sar'dauna largess. That's why my comment tend to be of hausa, we are not sell out. As per if Nigeria break up, where do we belong, that is very clear, where our heart lies is where we are. Thank you

Andre Uweh:

This is the way Kwarans want to be associated with, respect them.

Andre Uweh:

This is the way Kwarans want to be associated with, respect them.

PointB:

Is Kwara and Kogi not a Northern state? Whats the fuss about?

Mesico2:

@Op and Desola. You guys just like to cause trouble. Is it today you see pple dress the way they feel like? You guys should stfu and solve your problems.or are you jealous of we kwarans?

JamesDoe:

Kwarans, ronu.

Whenever I meet a Kwaran and they give me a heavy Arabic name, I stare at them till they give me their Yoruba name.

There are Moslems in SW states but they use their Yoruba names and even when they have Arabic names they will provide the Yoruba name. So Kwarans, why?

Desola:

#The Yoruba gene is a total waste on the Kwarans. We got it wrong with them.

Don't call them Yorubas, they are 'Yorusas'.

colomb:

The baseline, everybody must do the necessary to preserve their cultural heritage and one of the most effective ways of expressing where we from is simply how we dress. Kwara is a speaking state and if there are muslims in the south-western states that still dresses Yoruba to the core, why must here be any different if not for insensitivity on the part of the ilorin people.

JamesDoe:

Well I'm not Igbo so ,

I'm full blooded Yoruba!

tarano:

I agree kwara and kogi are northern states period, when 2015 comes power goes back to the north, Bukola Saraki for president, let see how far he will go,

KnowAll:
What is wrong with this Ilorin people, they behave like a defeated people despite the fact that the incursion into their land that made them Muslims in the 1830’s was the same continual one albeit subtle incursion into the SW that made several people Muslims in Lagos, Ogun, Oshun, Oyo and Ondo State.

Why do the other Yoruba’s despite being Muslim or Christians still put on traditional Yoruba caps when they dress in native attires? The Kwara people despite being Yoruba just want to belong, their attitude to me appear as someone trying effortlessly to woo the North and each time they try hard, the Northerners spurns such overtures with disdain. Is it not high time they smell the coffee and retrace their steps embracing and celebrating their Yorubaness instead of being an attaché to a Group who does not reckon and want them.

During the last PDP insistence that the Presidential Candidate for the Party should come from the North, Kwara’s Saraki was openly spurned and referred to as a Yoruba man yet the silly guy and the even more sillier new Governor goes around wearing one stupiiiid Hausa cap trying to belong. What is wrong with this people?

Oba234:

never understood why Kwara state is considered a Northern state. If you were to give a nigerian map to a non nigerian and asked them to place Kwara state in a zone, I am pretty sure Kwara state will be placed in the south. Based on my map, Kwara state is in Southern Nigeria. I don't even consider Kwara or Kogi or a middle belt state. Abuja, plateau and Niger are the true middle belt states. Maybe I am looking at this with my American eyes,

Oba234:

never understood why Kwara state is considered a Northern state. If you were to give a nigerian map to a non nigerian and asked them to place Kwara state in a zone, I am pretty sure Kwara state will be placed in the south. Based on my map, Kwara state is in Southern Nigeria. I don't even consider Kwara or Kogi or a middle belt state. Abuja, plateau and Niger are the true middle belt states. Maybe I am looking at this with my American eyes,