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IlekeHD:
Plz go and waste someone else's time. ab.ok.i

smh

IlekeHD:
lmaoooo omo a.b.oki, still claiming Yoruba? Ko si wahala.

Emi omo abo.ki. LOL Omo yoruba tokan tokan ni mi

Ki lo de ti o fi pe mi ni abo.ki

Omo Eko gidi ni mi

Stolen:
Abeg remove Delta State from that last. Delta is 100% a Christian State.

Igbo, Urhobo Ijaw Itshekiri are Christian groups.

STole

you LIED !!!!!

My yoruba people. God bless you all

RevDesmondJuju:
Indigenous people or migrants?

Stop confusing Delta with Edo.

The few muslims in Delta are from Edo, Kogi(Ebiras) and the north.

indigenous

there are some Ilaje, Urhobo and Ijaws that are Muslims in DELTA STATE

Warri to be precise

RevDesmondJuju:
Why is Delta part of your lame jihad?

because we have muslims in Delta

Gbam

For your information, Yoruba are not the most hateful tribe. The most hateful tribe regions would not flourish they way all Yoruba regions are flourishing. The right question should have been; Why Yoruba's are the most jealous tribe? the answer is this; Misrepresentation of facts about Yoruba. We Will educate many by sharing this historical facts . We must reject in total BIGOTRY in any form...We should celebrate our progress. "By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population of over 60,000 people. Colonial Lagos developed into a busy, cosmopolitan port, with an architecture that blended Victorian and Brazilian styles.The
Brazilian element was imparted by skilled builders and masons who had returned from Brazil. The black elite was composed of English-speaking "Saros" from Sierra Leone and other emancipated slaves who had been repatriated from Brazil and Cuba.
By 1872 the population of Lagos was over 60,000, of whom less than 100 were of European origin.
In 1876 imports were valued at £476,813 and exports at £619,260.
Telephone links with Britain were established by 1886, and electric street lighting in 1898.
In August 1896, Charles Joseph George and G.W. Neville,both merchants and both unofficial members of the Legislative Council,
presented a petition urging construction of the railway terminus on Lagos Island rather than at Ido, and also asking for the railway to be extended to Abeokuta. Lagos history is rich in Yoruba tradition,trade and commerce,infrastructural development and cosmopolitanism." -
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With the little facts above, I would like to educate
those making stupid assumption from
blind sentiments that they developed Lagos.

1. Lagosians had telephone presence in 1886, Itu
and Calabar got connected to Telephone in 1923,
while between 1946 and 1952, a three-channel
line carrier system was commissioned between
Lagos and Ibadan and was later extended to Oshogbo, Kaduna, Kano, Benin, and Enugu.

2. Communication technology is a major signifier of civilizations and if Lagosians were already making telephone calls more than 70 years before their
daddies, where then did they get the warped idea that they came to develop Lagos?

3. By 1856 Cable and Wireless Company of the UK
had commissioned a submarine cable link
between Lagos and London and In 1851 a post office was established in Lagos; all these before of the emergence of Nigeria as an amalgamatedvcountry.

4. If I may ask again, where did the funny idea that Igbo developed Lagos came from? OR that Lagos was developed with Nigeria's money when Lagos was not even part of Nigeria until
1914.

5. I always feel embarrassed anytime I read and hear even so-called educated people from the East making these sentimental assertions that has no basis in history or fact.

6. The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander
Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937.

7.Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr.
Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated
from another Scottish University in 1935.

8. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the
backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from?

For the sake of our generation and posterity we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some
cock and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts.
The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you
miseducate your kids with fictions.

9. Awolowo will continue to be the Yoruba hero not
because of blind followership but because he gave
his people the system of free education, free healthcare and he introduced Television to the Yoruba; making Yorubaland the first region to
have a TV station in Africa and even the Soviet Union all done with revenues from Cocoa. It is crass ignorance and naked buffonery to claim Lagos was built with Nigeria's money.

10. In addition, where did the foolish idea that the Igbo brought civilization to Lagos and Yoruba-land come from?

11. The aim of this post is not to deride any tribe but to correct the dangerous misinformation trending
among some Igbo youths and common in their narratives that Lagos is a no-man's land and that their fathers built and developed Lagos.

Your forebears came to Yoruba-land like every other
settlers and we appreciate their contributions but the stupid claim that Igbo built and developed Lagos is a gross display of stupidity because Lagos was already developed before your
forebears came here from their villages and towns.
The first storey building in Nigeria was built in Marina, Badagry in 1845, long before some of hinterland people gave up the idea of conical mud houses with thatched roofs which some boastfully
called 'ancient mansions.' How can you now claim your grand-sires developed Lagos?
Please if you are one of those spreading the fiction, I
expect you to desist from self-delusion and
collective amnesia forthwith.

12. The first Igbo alphabet-character set and Igbo
primer (Isoama-Ibo) was published by Bishop
Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a yoruba man from
Osogbo in now Osun, States) in 1857. The question is jealousy not hatred.

Women and cheating .

Firefire:
Aljharem, thank you.

We should not allow false information to strive for too long.

If our leaders really have the love of the Yoruba race in mind, their excesses should be check and should be compel to put the interest of the race above their personal selfish ambitions.

Shalom!

I agree. Thank you brother

Gbawe and Firefire let's stop this pdp and apc discussion on this thread and focus on yoruba as a nation

Old news since Gej era

Una never see change, change is here.

foooooolllllsssssa

psucc:
Change had also gripped the telcos.

they were sending text messages to vote for change na especially mtn

ifyalways:
Hmmn.

I can see one appointed/ employed since 1960

What hope does today's graduate have?

I thought I was the only one that saw it !!!!

Mohammed M

futmxconnectn:
Gov. Ambode is a clueless governor, I don't think the man has anything to offer considering the fact that some institutions in Lagos state are working...
If Ambode governs a state like Ekiti, I wonder how the state would look like after four years..

Oh,all na change !!!!

IlekeHD:
Laudate, this dude is not Yoruba, but a slimy northern stooge.

Don't trust him.

You are a funny girl. I am more yoruba than you can ever be in your life !!!!

laudate:
Thank you, jare! Ah, I have a feeling that I just missed out on a lot of fun, with everyone speaking the language, leaving me with very little clue as to what was being said!
Zimoni said up there: "O ga oooo". Is he referring to a big man or a 'Boss' i.e. Oga, or what??

O ga ooo is like when a nigerian say Na wa ohhhh

It is just an expression.

All na change

nice !!!!

dejavski:
You're from what dialect?

The Oyos have been deeply infused into other ethnic groups which have resulted to their gradual extinction

I am have a mixture of Awori and Egun but I an Awori man.

Yes We use Oyo dialect as the central dialect to communicate but each individual ethnic group still very much maintain it's dialect.

In fact I find Itsekiri easier to understand than Ijesha or Akoko

dejavski:
Hope u know that there was no such thing as "Yoruba" in the 17th century? It was coined by our then colonial masters

Good, we had different ethnic groups. In fact Yarribawa (part of the banza in Hausa folk tela) were used to refer the Oyo and Kwara people.

Yoruba is a Language used to unite different Ethnic Nations

dejavski:
Yoruba is not a Language but a group of people that lives together in harmony. Though some of them share historical ties and culture

Hmmmm is that so

So what do you call those Yorubas living in Brazil ?

My guy Yoruba is a Language, just like Bini etc. Omo Oodua is an Umbrella. There is a difference.

Itsekiris whether they are yoruba or not does not change the fact that they are under the umbrella

Yanks101:
I doubt that.
Edo don't want to have anything to do with yoruba. Saraki and his kwara folks recently denied being yorubas. The aworis denied being yorubas recently too.
I think the yorubas have been guilty of claiming however much you want to deny it.
As for the rest of your post, well, lips sealed

Please show me where Aworis have denial being yoruba. Not that it matters but show me and give me the name of the writter.

I will personally tell the writter to publicly apologise if he is truly awori from Lagos state. Una no know anything