tunapawizzy:

I believe he is proud of his tribe, he is only saying the truth....we are proud yorubas but the truth is Lagos is over-rated. Although Lagos has the resources to be a truly modern city. Strategically located, economically vibrant na leadership remain.

Not quite. The real problem of Lagos is that bulk of the revenue generated in the city is being appropriated by FG. I'm talking about customs duties, company income tax, stamp duties, education tax, vat, revenue from sea ports, revenue from airport etc. For Lagos to achieve the level of infrastructural development that is common with other cities of similar status, every full blooded Yoruba must be willing to do whatever is necessary; fight, kill etc to ensure that Nigeria returns to regional system or is broken up.

LordIsaac:
Yoruba amaka!

Yoruba, Imole Gbogbo Adulawo

AwesomeStormy00:



I can't pick and choose my tribe, I've nothing to prove to you if i am yoruba or not. All because i say something about the yorubas that didn't go your way all this digging about my tribe popping up. You saying parents teach their kid or kids yo hate a particular tribe is low blow it shows it is what you'd do. And you wonder why the country is backward. So you are supporting what tinubu is doing or the politicians. You support parents telling their kids not marry from other yoruba state!. It is well bros calm down ejoor

1. @ first bolded: If a group of people told and continue to tell lies about you ancestors/political leaders; lies such as Yorubas cross-carpeted after Zik won election, Ojukwu released Awolowo from prison but Awolowo betrayed him. Yorubas always support Fulani, Yoruba betrayed southern unity as if there was anything of such to start with and so on. I guess they are showing love to Yorubas in in your own estimation. And no I woundn't teach my descendants to hate people because of their ethnicity but I'd teach them to be ardent students of history, so that they are immune to attacks from historical propagandist and revisionists. And to guide their Yoruba heritage, land and political economy jealously, even if it means total annihilation of any group of aliens who seek to destroy or take over same.
2. @ 2nd bolded: You know what? I support that we take out Tinubu but only on the condition that all strong political figure in all the regions are taken out as well. The likes of Jonathan, Peter Obi, Edwin Clark, Uzo Kalu, Ekweremadu, James Ibori, Atiku etc.
3. @ 3rd bolded: This is purely in your imagination.

RevDesm0ndJuju:


This post reeks of so many afinja lies .

Who in the Niger Delta opposed yiur sharing formula which your Awolowo was the single author who based the sharing formula not on revenue generated within a state but on population figures.

And FYI , taxes are shared 50-50 with the FG unlike oil revenue where a palyry 13% is given to the states.

And don't forget that Lagos gets huge chunk of corporate taxes from oil companies domiciled within her boundaries. A situation which Awolowo put in place when he was finance Minister and deputy to Gowon.

You talk of Yoruba land generating bulk of naira income via taxes which you failed to see that without Oil wealth from the ND you won't have had the infrastructure and economy in place .

Stop lying and ask yourself what in return dies the Niger Delta get for subsidizing you leaches?

1. All taxes excluding personal income tax are taken to Abuja, where they are later shared to states using criteria like; landmass, population, number of LG and other ridiculous stuff.
2. Oil was discovered in 1956.
3. Apapa port - 1913, Lagos Intl Airport now MMA - 1947, UI -1948. All from taxes paid by Yoruba people under British colonialism.
4. Indudtrial estates: Ikeja, Apapa, Oluyole, Ikorodu, etc all built by Awolowo from 1951, when Western region obtain self-rule from the British.
5. Large pool of taxable human resources, majorly cultivated by Awolowo during regional government, from taxes generated in Yoruba.
6. The aforementioned are the reasons why Yorubaland was the richest during colonislism, during regional government, and is still the richest at the present. The north used to be the second richest. Your region only displaced north as second richest due to oil but Yorubaland is in a different league.
7. Lastly, reprentatives of your region has repeatedly joined those of other regions to deny Yoruba of our desire to keep a portion of our taxes before it get sent to FG. So, it is only pragmatic that our representatives also join others to prevent you from realizing your desire.
Please provide evidence for the highlighted section. That is, evidence for such sharing formula before the fraudulent 1999 constitution, authored by the Igbo man Ben Nwabueze, as a willing tool of the Fulani.
In conclusion, Yorubaland is the greatest net contributor to Nigeria.

RevDesm0ndJuju:
Your rants especially the part you stated why you opposed 25% derivative to oil producing states only exposed your stupidity , greed and envy.

Now it should be abundantly clear that just as the Igbos wanted to annex the Niger Delta for oil so also did you yaribanzas fought to keep the oil in one Nijeriya

No Yoruba man will ever be given any attention when they come out and decietfully speak on restructuring and so no presidency for you parasites

As things stand now, we in the ND should know that we are our own allies. The Igbos and Yorubas are never to be trusted .

Why should Yoruba support whatever you are to get 25%, when you fail to support Yoruba to keep bulk of the taxes from our space. Mind you, there is a difference between foreign exchange and government revenue. Your region generates bulk of the fomer while Yoruba region generates bulk of the latter. Yorubaland does not depend on oil, we depend on taxes.

AwesomeStormy00:



Shaking my head here have u heard of whistblower? Edward Snowden that exposed USA intelligence spying on people is it not born American citizens. I don't have to waste my time arguing my heritage with you.

Where is the hate in my messages? All i said was yoruba land is burning and that hit a nerve in your brain.

Anyway calm down most yorubas here are not happy with the country my childhood mates are still there and we talk nearly every time we have the chance to.

My parents are yoruba but free minded if you are good you are good no nepotism or favoritism getting anything growing up.

Bros let me put this to you, Obasanjo and Tinibu are billionaires now after serving in Government and you think they are saint.

Lastly, calmdown no point fighting over silly stuffs i was only expressing what i think and most of my mate think.

Have a good day bros

Your earlier description of Yorubas which I highlighted indicates that you are either a Yoruba hater or a self-hating Yoruba, which is worse. Regardless of the actions of any politician, a PURE proud Yoruba would not have described his/her own people in such manner. More so, based on ignorance and a mindset that is involuntarily acquired due to very potent enemy propaganda. Look around the world and point out a more Liberal people than the Yorubas. If you found such, please do yourself a favour and transfer your ethnic allegiance to that group.

JoeEeL:
GOD PUNISH ALL OF YOU.

Awon Oludari Oloriburuku.

I despise all these Yoruba elders. Idiots in power. Silly fools. Any idiot in the way of us trying to unshackle ourselves from this devilish arrangment will be steamrollered, swears down.

Those men are politicians. That is their game. If you have discovered a better way to; in your own words "unshackle ourselves from this develish arrangement", outside of politics please keep it up. Please note that it will be self-defeating to completely ignore politcs while we fight to free ourselves from this arrangement because the very cause of our current predicament is due to the fact that a PURE Yoruba with Yoruba interest, has never held political power in this country.

AwesomeStormy00:


Calm down bros for record i am not from the Eastern part of Nigeria. I am yoruba but yoruba stupidity and tribal blindness is not in me. A graduated in uk with good job. So if you can match that let us talk. Whenever anybody come up here to speak the truth you guys go gaga. Imagine Tinubu and his gangs killing our youth and you turn blind eyes. Smh. Try reason positively and stop letting tribe blind your thinking. If poverty dey kill you se poverty no dey let you think ni. Happy Sunday

1. You are a non-Yoruba (from a Yoruba- hating ethnic group) masquerading as Yoruba, or
2. You are a half-Yoruba (with a parent from one of the Yoruba-hating ethnic groups), or
3. You are one of the honest but gullible Yorubas who is deeply affected by the psychological warfare of Igbos, started by Azikiwe which is still raging in the present, aimed at inciting self-hate in Yorubas. They incite you to hate your heritage, any of your leaders whom they could not buy. Why, they are afflicted with an obssessive desire to take over that which belongs to you; Your land, the resources therein.

Jetrue3oo:
Yoruba and and northerners dey use south south oil money dey developed their land we are watching

This is plain ignorance and or propaganda. There is a difference between government revenue and foreign exchange.
The former is derived majorly from Yorubaland as taxes of various kinds; customs duties, import duties, company tax, education tax, entertainment tax, ICT tax etc. The Niger Delta provides the bulk of the latter via crude oil export. Again, Yorubaland comes second in generating foreign exchange via export of cash crops; cocoa, kola nut, etc.
The rational conclusion thus is that revenue/wealth from values created in Yorubaland funds the FG. And exploration of a natural resource from the ND provides foreign exchange for the FG.

AregbeFufu:

And the money that was used in constructing those critical infrastructures,where did they come from?

From taxes paid by Yorubas to colonial and regional regional governments.
Examples:
1. Apapa port was established in 1913
2. Lagos International Airport, which was later reanamed to MMA was established in 1947
3. The industrial estates of APAPA, Ikeja, Ilupeju, Ogba etc. All built during regional government.

Very simple answer: Lack of human capital. Most of the inhabitants are petty traders. Skilled men and women; scientists, welders, carpenters, engineers, technologists (like Paystack duo of Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi) are the most important ingredients necessary for development. But in that part of the world, they believe that petty traders are the real developers.

Raydos:
Tokyo is one of the most, If not the most densely populated cities in the world, The Greater Tokyo Area Alone has about 38million residents, That's 2 times higher than the population of Lagos!!

And despite this huge population, You can rarely hear about traffic in Tokyo, Tokyo has one of the fastest bullet trains in the world, Who needs a car when you can get to your destination faster with a bullet train?

It is also the second largest single metropolitan area in the world in terms of built-up or urban function landmass at 8,547 km2 (3,300 mi2), behind only New York City at 11,642 km2 (4,495 mi2)

Simple answer: Bulk of the revenues generated in Tokyo, NY, London etc stays in those cities. In the case of Lagos revenues generated from her critical infrastructure are taken to Abuja, where it is later shared to all states in the country, according to landmass, population and other ridiculous criteria.

AlexBells:

We are not being Deceptive we prefer a peaceful Nigeria where healthy competition and mutual respect reigns, we don't like violence and bloodletting that's why Biafra was Declared, our love for Nigeria reflects in everything we do like Nollywood, Nigeria Super Eagle, Even our business scattered all over the country, again we won't annex any inch of any land that's not ours but if those people chose to stay with us, after due deliberation, if its worth then we are always ready to make friends

Scots don't MASS MIGRATE to England so as to engage in "healthy competition" instead they negotiated a regional system which puts the control of their space in their very hand. If you want healthy competition as you've claimed then support regionalism like the Scots, develop your human resources and make your space great. Instead you keep Supporting unitary system, a system that accommodates your parasitism while majority of your folks pretend to loathe the system. That is the fundamental basis of your deception.

AlexBells:

Thanks for your advice, I would also wish to point out you that Igboland does not share any common boundary with Yoruba land, as such the Issue of within the Niger Delta will be settled as one between neighbours and you of all people knows that Igbos was forced to pick Biafra and Igbos will be the last people to really wish for an end to Nigeria, why do we keep going back to the North if we don't believe in Nigeria or even buying land in far away Lagos if we dont believe in Nigeria. If tomorrow the unfurnate happens and Nigeria breaks, we are going to declare an Igbo republic without any tribe in the Niger Delta but we will also not recognise a Niger Delta republic as we will support for the break down of Niger Delta into smaller kingdom states, any tribe that wish to willingly join Igboland will be free or be our territory, for the very really smaller ones who would prefer a stronger passport, international recognition and believes in the Igbo, that's what could happen if Nigeria stops existing but we don't ever pray for that

Don't get me wrong. Whether the Nigeria Delta, excluding Itshekiri and Akoko-Edo chooses to join Igbos in Biafra is not my concern. I'm only disgusted by the fact that Igbos are being deceptive about their very strong desire for "One Nigeria". Igbos can annex territories up to Benin if they wish.

AlexBells:

Good point so if I as an Igbo wish to make a difference, what do you advise I do, but before you advice me, I want you to understand that Southern Unity to me is unworkable

Encourage your folks to cease their deceptive cry of marginalization and their greedy desire for a mini Nigeria, where they hope to subjugate the ethnic minorities of the Nigeria Delta . Support Regionalism or demand for a sovereign HOMOGENEOUS Igbo nation. As for your last statement, my response is that I am a citizen of Yoruba nation one of the many nations that make up the country Nigeria and I don't give a damn about any Southern rubbish.

tollyboy5:

If we continue like this we won't get anything tangible. Igbo playing victimized won't stop Lagos from progressing, lets leave all these things. I believe Yoruba race has a better vision but we're loosing focus due to our greedy leaders.
They're all after becoming president

Bad leadership is not exclusive to Yorubaland. The focus which we've lost is that while envious and covetous outsiders altered the political system, usually with force, so that their poor regions and people could share in the revenue from our homeland, majority of us never cared.

AlexBells:

Then why is Nigeria still using a semblance of the same system till this day, isn't that slavery, why can't the whole country change what a single or few Igbo men put in place if it were really that bad

These are the reasons:
1) The Fulani who inherited the skewed system which the Ibos created share the same desire as the Ibos (the subjugation of other ethnicities).
2) The Yoruba elites who are the major factor that can reverse the system back to what was agreed upon, are at the moment not up to the task because the Fulani has the backing of the English.
3) The Yoruba masses who should be a source of support to their elites so as to put an end to this cursed system, are currently under psychological attack from massive Ibo propaganda. The Ibos PRETEND to want out of Nigeria by their incessant cry of marginalization and fraud Biafra agitation. This psychological war strategy has made it difficult for the Yoruba masses to realise that Nigeria currently favours only the Igbos (economically) and Fulani (Politically).

tollyboy5:

Should we rely on those past and create more troubles?

Yes, if the actual vilians will not admit their fault but rather continuously deploy propaganda to portray themselves as victims.

Ihatemumu:


They raised 10million USD and employ people from all tribes,


You are here 247 on a faceless forum practicing Tribalism. Lmao

The real bigots are the immigrants who claim to be the developer of a place that was already developed before they ever learnt to cover their nudes. People who specialize in 2x2 bussiness where they employ only their clan members. People who employ propaganda to discredit the efforts of the indegenous people who create innovative bussinesses, which attract the INVESTMENT that is needed to drive REAL development, and create employment opportunity for anyone who is qualified, irrespective of ethnicity or race.

Obamaofusa:

Pls,stop being a bigot..

What he is preaching is SELF-PRESEVATION and not bigotry. Everyone else practice it. If you want Yoruba civilization to endure start practing it and tell your folks to do same.

ayoola27:

it didn't display on my Chrome either

Check your internet connection.

ayoola27:


pls is the jetbrains working in ur browser...

I tried following up the lesson but it keeps telling me I'm offline...

I'm using operamini

I can't really say why it's not working on your browser. Perhaps you should download a modern browser like chrome.

wwwtortoise:


Greetings Sir !

Please recommend a user-friendly online platform where I can learn Python for free.

I used codecademy but the free version is limited to only the intro and basics.

PS: I am presently doing my NYSC and eagerly want to learn programming.

Regards.

Hello, go check out JetBrains Learning at jetbrains.com. They are giving learners free access to their courses until January, 2021.

Ogbonnaa:
if you don't want war, then Yoruba should relinquish power to Ibos unopposed, they should forget about 2023 presidential nomination form, they should relinquish it to Igbos for peace to reign

Bring it on, but remember all is fair in war even wholesale massacre.

Sunshineg5:
I don't think people should be discriminated against because of their relationship choices.

We have had Yoruba first lady of Benue state in the past too.

Sir, it is not discrimination but actually self-presevation.

LabDNA:


Chest-beating gorilla with hot air. If you hear the sound of local gun, you go pick race go hide for your Oshogbo hut with your big mouth.

You think say na your local hakeemu vs nurudeen local agbero fight we dey discuss here?

Alright dude.

LabDNA:


Oga nothing go happen. Yorubas no longer enjoy the camaraderie of the general south and middle belt.
They are Isolated. Easy pickings for a brutal regime if they start an insurrection.
Sowore and Deji have been made examples. Sowore is now mute like a dove, while Deji is spending Xmas and new year on a sickbed with a broken skull.

I would like to know what Deji thinks of one Nigeria when he comes back from his sick bed in dubai after insulting MNK for not trying to reason with Almajiris on the issue of Biafra.

You really think that I got time for all this Nigeria vs Biafra shit. I am only telling you that If Igbo ever repeat what the likes of Prof. Nwabuaze did during the Abiola saga, we 'Conservative Yorubas' will ensure that you guys pay dearly for it. If you are in doubt and are convinced that Yorubas are cowards pray hard to your god that Yoruba vs Hausa-Fulani relation deteriorates into a chaotic situation, then if you guys are man enough give even subtle support to the North.

Kapeter:
The very day Bullharry was declared as president, the hausa/fulani coblers in Ibadan with their okada riders started acting funny untill they were put in thier place by NURTW.

These herdsmen menace is getting out of hand. Isa won't go to any court, he won't be jailed kobo, all they'll do is send him back to North and after 2-3 months return to his base.

I think fighting them spiritually(if truly possible) is the better way, fighting them physically will cause reprisal attack in the North.

That will only encourage them to cause more harm. We need to setting up more groups like OPC that can carry out organized violence, specifically targeted at those Barbarians especially their elites, who are implicitly sponsoring these acts.

LabDNA:


Nothing will happened in this current buhari's military regime, your streets will only be filled with soldiers as you have always wished for the East.
You can try, Buratai will be waiting.

Alright. Just try to resist the urge to act as antagonist against us when that time comes. There is now a significant population of Yorubas that identify as conservatives. And I am one of such. To us ('Yoruba conservatives'), Hausa-Fulani and Igbos deserve to be treated the same way.

LabDNA:

Yoruba did the same thing after Mko was killed. They even unleashed OPC thugs on hapless Nigerians. That was how they got the presidency. They never got yoruba presidency with 100% diplomacy.

Read your history.

That had to happen to teach those who are willing to learn, that Yoruba is not to be taken for granted. And it might happen again soonest because people seem to have forgotten that experience. Hausa-Fulani and Igbo share the similar mindset of perceiving diplomacy as a sign of weakness.

DMPaulSr:
True talks...
I myself is an apatheist... Quiet different from atheism in some way sha.. Just that apatheism is about, "if there is a God or not, we are not interested". I stopped disclosing my identity when people started avoiding me in school. One time last month, a guy called me a lost soul. I laff sha. Can't someone practice what he believes in peace? Nigerian Christians are the highest hypocrites in this world.. No Muslim will look at you like a demon when you tell them your belief...

We are on the same page. I don't believe in supernatural stuff cause I am yet to come across a concrete evidence that proves the existence of such. However, even if there is actually a God, I simply don't give a fuuuucck. Humanity is all that matters to me.