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seanet02:
Just like the way Ibos liberated themselves in 66 abi?
Comedy unlimited

please guy just shut it. u clearly do not know what u are talking about

philip0906:
so u r among those denying your state and claiming Lagos?It might interest u 2 know that me sef be Lagosian  :PHow it affects me might not be of immediate concern 2 u.Geddit?

sure you can be lagosian as well

as you know tribalism does not exist in lagos

we are all one, whether you are ebonyi, borno, enugu, abia, ogun, ekiti and even lagosians. we are one

do not let all this tribalism cloud ur judgement.

philip0906:
I just like this dude. . .Thought u were 4rm ekiti though, cos I noticed many peeps denying their states claiming Lagos.So u be Ogun bwoi?gud 2 know sha

and why can't they claim lagos ?

and moreover, how does it affect you ?

seanet02:
Na today?

Na today meaning what ?

are they in militancy. NO

baslone:
O boi! See frustration on this thread!

My brother, na hw we see am o!!!

demmykay:
When wil this communal clash end in this country. God wil save us from these abokis

WebSurfer:
They can kill themselves if they like but they shouldn't touch christains. Abokis

rafhell:
all this muslim northerners with their evil and unforgiving spirit.
i just wonder what they go to the mosque to hear.
silly and wicked people.

you 3 are the most ideeiotic people on earth

ideeits

Maximip:
If this list is accurate then Nigerian has a very loooooong way to go. Ordinary residential apartments in fellow 3rd world countries are 20 storeys

yes Nigeria has a long way to go but a journey of a thousand years starts with a step as they say

well this is the step

seanet02:
Awon Ode radarada, the one they did in 66, we all know who ran over to Ivory coast

guy chill.

philip0906:
what r u fuming about,u this ekiti man?who is talking igbo vs yoruba here?we are talking about Lagos,not yoruba states.By the way this was a classic

hopefully next election, an ekiti man would be the governor

an ogun has been the governor

an osun man also the governor

next will be an ekiti or kwara man, Insha Allah

even Hausa or kanuri would be AMEN

emmke:
igbos are damn too evil. Very evil set of people. Wishing evil on the people that accommodating u. That's i love the hausas. They do know how to deal with them.

my benue brother, this is what i saw as well and that is why i always support the yorubas and hausas

you can see how they think of others. quite pathetic isn't it

this is what I saw as well

ok that explain everything now

Hmmm. na wa o

tinubu is a villain. NO doubt about that

there are no oppositions against tinubu. The rule of law must prevail

I don't see the Okun people winning in kogi anytime soon. Although it would be nice if the Igalas can give ebira or okun a chance, but heck this is Nigeria

Owerri looks very beautiful.

definately a place i would like to visit when next i go to the east

abagworo, face and others, thanks for the pictures

would like to see more of other cities

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Muhammed Adoke (SAN), has given the go-ahead to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to try four former governors for various offences they allegedly committed while in office.
It was gathered yesterday that the former governors—Gbenga Daniel (Ogun), Adebayo Alao-Akala(Oyo), Muhammadu Goje (Gombe) and Akwe Doma (Nasarawa), were among the nine governors being probed by the anti-graft agency, especially since their exit from power last May.

this is what they should have done all this while

why do they need an "ok" from Adoke

we Nigerians should ask why it took so long to try corrupt former governors

sbeezy8:
you guys are jobless literally seek employment.

if theres no SW in the nations civil service wetin concern SW people?

I think SW people made it clear having a guy in the number 1 or 20th seat top position means SHIIT. 

OBJ was presido for 11 yrs TOTAL n still didnt do SHIIT for SW SO Why Tha Fuk WOULD SW CARE WHO THE AGF OR CNA (lesser positions) are? lol


this article is as du.mb as majority of comments

you really have to know nigeria

the newspaper = odili news by igbos

the top 7 comments was by igbos

even the yorubas that are marginalzed are not complaining yet this igbos are complaining for them

My brother nothing pesin no go see for this site

I mean read this

[quote author=South.East link=topic=773418.msg9263546#msg9263546 date=1317585457]However, I agree with the main gist of the article that Yorubas have become endangered species in Nigeria
Their king, Tinubu, is docked
They have no representation in the entire fed govt
NLNG and other oil/gas companies are moving outta Lagos
Wetin dey happen?[/quote]sbezzy8, what right person would write this that is the problem with this people

@ THE YORUBA PEOPLE OUT THERE

Please avoid commenting on topics like this.[size=14pt] It feeds the DEVIL[/size] .

[quote author=South-East link=topic=773397.msg9263168#msg9263168 date=1317581435]Ibadan for sure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibadan[/quote] my brother jealousy would not kill you

[quote author=South-East link=topic=773397.msg9263135#msg9263135 date=1317581164]Cocoa house is 24-story and is it currently decrepit with elevators falling down and killing people
There is an 18-Storey building in Ebonyi https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=771556.msg9246710#msg9246710[/quote]18 -storey building, what is the height

it is not one of the tallest in nigeria

but good hope Nigeria all the best

Building Height Floors Completed City
NITEL Building 160 m (520 ft) 32 1979 Lagos

Union Bank Headquarters 124 m (407 ft) 28 ?? Lagos

Cocoa House 105 m (344 ft) 26 1965 Ibadan(Oyo)

Independence House 103 m (338 ft) 23 1960 Lagos

Great Nigeria House 95 m (312 ft) 22 ?? Lagos

National Oil Headquarters 83 m (272 ft) 23 1984 Lagos

Stock Exchange House 83 m (272 ft) 22 ?? Lagos

UBA House 80 m (260 ft) 20 ?? Lagos

Eagle House 78 m (256 ft) 20 1985 Lagos

NNPC Tower1 75 m (246 ft) 15 1996 Abuja

NNPC Tower 2 75 m (246 ft) 15 1996 Abuja

NNPC Tower 3 75 m (246 ft) 15 1996 Abuja

NNPC Tower 4 75 m (246 ft) 15 1996 Abuja

Afribank Plaza 73 m (240 ft) 19 1998 Lagos

Freeman House 70 m (230 ft) 18 ?? Lagos

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https://lh4.ggpht.com/_C0B0C7RtHsU/TVTHvHdbsSI/AAAAAAAAA-c/BSaCX08DAoI/Sopona.jpg

Sopona (or Shapona) is the god of smallpox in the Yoruba religion. The Yoruba people of Nigeria believed that smallpox was a disease foisted upon humans due to Shapona's "divine displeasure", and formal worship of the God of Smallpox was highly controlled by specific priests in charge of shrines to the God. People believed that if the priests were angered they were capable of causing smallpox outbreaks through their intimate relationship with Shapona. Suspecting that the priests were deliberately spreading the disease, the British colonial rulers banned the worship of Shapona in 1907. Worship continued, however, with the faithful paying homage to the God even after such activities were prohibited. Shapona was exported to the New World in the slave trade, where he became known as Omolu or Babalu Aye in the Orisha religion. Shakpana is an equivalent in Dahomey mythology.

https://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d20584/d2058481r.jpgA FINE YORUBA MALE TWIN FIGURE IN COWRY SHELL COAT
Ere Ibeji, from the Igbomina area
With carved triangular pendants on breast and back, black bead necklace, sandalled feet, dark glossy patina, the coat covered in shells

https://tribalworksgallery.homestead.com/aIbeji.JPG

Ibegi Yoruba, Nigera

[img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSvuZaADCHro7iTdOtkiJiKrf7qDAL95b5CB21Pv_hmyo9NA00D[/img]

oyo horseman

https://www.hamillgallery.com/YORUBA/YorubaHorsemen/YorubaHorseman03fd.JPG

yoruba horseman

macjive01:
lagos greatest asset is not fashola or awololo or any other godamnit name but its position as a formal FCt of which was built into the nations commercial nerve by amongst all the SEAPORT.

The relocation of nlgn no doubt will have a little effect, but what will bring lagos to its kneel wud be a deep seaport in Portharcourt or Akwa-ibom, linked to an Aba and Onitsha inland container port, and then Nnewi and Aba EPZs, that in place LAGOS will seize to exist, southwest will time-travel back to 1967 into an agrarian society, low standard of living, possibly renewal of slave trading ( trading their children- this time knowingly).

Every other step in that territory will be littered with high powered concentrated juju, rituals will be the order of the day. no more igbos to abuse hence they will turn on themselves, firstly to Ijebus ( as the black sheeps), then to Abeokwuta - for overshadowing the rest. soon the awori man wud declare his true status and ethnicity.

just imagine Lagos losing west-minister and all those tank farms !, yes, 78% of the contents of those tanks travel outside Lagos and SW, would it not be more judicious to transport it by a barge from portharcourt or Akwa-Ibom deep seaport to Onitsha oil tank farm, then proceed to lokoja tank farm - which wud cater for Abuja consumption , then to niger tank farm - which wud in turn cater for the north west. Onitsha wud also cater for the middle belt and the rest of the north.

Is this what you wish for yoruba people

SUCH HATRED well we wish Igbos all the best and WE THE SW PEOPLE PRAY for SE economy to grow

Seunn11:
please, let decongestion of lagos and sw start immediately. Good host we have been all this while. Now, let other regions also host the whole country.
Did someone just barked sw will time travel to 1967? I found it amusing at best.

Ikwerre and Ijaw people in port harcourt are nice in fact even nicer to yorubas than their Neigbours

DaLover:
I am surprised by this question, r u 4 real, so by now you do not know what they call hypocrazy from our SW brothers in this country?

in 1999 abubarka/abacha administration moved shipping council hq to abuja and the SW pple screamed to high heavens that there is no port or sea in abuja, obj came in and promptly moved it back to lagos.
Now major oil companies have their hqs in lagos including napims, since 1980s before militancy started in 2006, but SW pple in trying to justify this rediculus situation come up wih all kinds of foolish reasons as if they are talking to dummies.(they propable think they are)
1 No security in niger delta
2 Niger deltans are uneducated and some other funny stuff.

Can your shallow minded ways let u see how painful it is to produce cocoa on your farms in SW and have cocoa house located in kaduna, where all high level decisions on the ccoa industry will be taken from,

Whenever u even attempt to justify such injustice just know that what go around comes around

Hypocritcy

was it a yoruba man that made the capital Lagos at he first place

was calabar not the capital at some poin in history

the oil companies are FREE TO CHOSE THEIR CAPITAL and where they want it to be, It has nothing to do with the FG or Obj

go check the legistrative powers of the FG before you start posting rubbish

phantom:
o please, give them 6 months and they ll know what they ve been missing, breathing fresher air,less stress et al, their life expectancy go suddenly rise from 45years(lagos) to >70yrs,
this is just the beginning.dont know why it wasnt done earlier, shell and co should follow suit.
i had mentioned this in some other thread that this country is gradually decentralising, Its happening even faster than i thought.



The ibaka deep sea port will be the NAIL that finally seals the coffin,

Yes if that what you igbos wish for lagos then I must say I am sorry for una


You can not be wishing evil for a group of people and expect blessing for God . Not possible

Gideonyte:
This is a very good move! At least the ND will be able to enjoy some taxes derived from its resources. Someone working as an accountant in Chevron revealed to me that Chevron alone pays more than N800m in taxes to Lagos state government every month! It boggles my mind to think how much taxes would be derived from the likes of DPR, NAPIMS, SHELL, TOTAL, EXXON etc and other servicing companies in residing in Lagos. This just has to be an excellent move!

Can u please stop that rubbish you posted

what ND. was it Obj that told the oil companies to stay in lagos

was the capital not moved to abuja

was all HQ not moved to abuja, who asked them to stay in lagos at the first place

MackDealer:
So let me get this, NLNG a company formed in 1989 with about 400 employees in Lagos a city of 15million people is moving it's headquarters to PH and all of a sudden the economy of Lagos will be crippled, am I missing something?

If most people on Nairaland is what Nigeria has to offer, it will never develop, it's not a curse, it's a fact, everybody seems to just think out of their behind

LOL not Nairaland but Igbos. this what they want

so an igbo man said, to see yorubas on their knees begging How hateful is that

Seunn11:
It is the attitude of some bigots here that pissed me off! Imagine some people saying stuff like: SW will now be finished! Lagos will be dead and buried!!! what level of wickedness is that? Envy exposed.

Be sure of one thing: the level of sophistication in SW is not because of oil. Far from it. In fact, just few corrupt politicians make money from oil in the SW.

To all haters, watch as your hell hole implode further when various ethnic group start fighting for what they think is truly theirs. Then, you will pray that the companies move back to Lagos

Now you know them, those are SE igbos for you and that is why Ikwerre would never ever allow them in port harcourt

they can never rule port harcourt because of such mentality. How sad

mathskill:
Very soon NNPC and petroleum ministry head quarters will be moved to portharcourt, the future capital of the NIGER-DELTA republic.Kudos to you.SW,NORTH,MID-BELT,SE will no more pester on your oil,you will soon enjoy it all by yourself.

Gbammm. abi we need peace in Nigeria

To conclude

How can a poster say; I quote " soon the yorubas will be decimated and would be on their knees" all in the name of the HQ moved to bonny island

WHY DO IGBOS HATE YORUBA PEOPLE SO SO SOOO MUCH

why would a fellow human being want another man to be on his knees all in the name of HQ

why would another man want to see another fellow human being begging

is that not sadistic

Each of the 250 or more ethnic groups in Nigeria can converse in this language, though they usually have their own additional words.[b] For example, the Yorùbás use the words Şe and Abi when speaking Pidgin. These are often used at the start or end of an intonated sentence or question. For example, "You are coming, right?" becomes Şe you dey come? or You dey come abi? Another example, the Igbos added the word, Nna also used at the beginning of some sentences to add effect. For example, man! that test was hard becomes Nna, that test hard no be small.
Nigerian Pidgin also varies from place to place. Dialects of Nigerian Pidgin may include the Warri, Sapele, Benin, Port-Harcourt, Lagos especially in Ajegunle, Onitsha varieties.
Nigerian Pidgin is most widely spoken in the oil rich Niger-Delta where most of its population speak it as their first language.[/b] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin

language history of krio or creole people by Kiro professor[b]s[/b] in freetown

http://etd.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Fyle%20Margaret%20Sophia.pdf?osu1243356678

Now you want to tell me

1. Kiro people too borrowed those words even though pidgin english originated from them or at least originated from hawaii beofre getting to them and then Nigeria ?

2. Do u want to tell me that brazilians too borrowed words from Ijaws ?

3. Are kiro people to ijaws now since you share words with them and the yorubas ?

4. Words that clearly did not and was never part of ijaw words are now Ijaw words by killayut, so are you going to tell us how those words traveled to kwara, benin, togo, serri leano of all this are all pro-yoruba or yoruba groups groups ?

5. Killayut, Have you thought of the possiblilty that may be those ijaw words you think is Orignial Ijaw words MAY HAVE ORIGINATED FROM IGBO AND YORUBA WORDS ? Just the possiblity.

jason123:
Its only in Nigeria people will support and defend the indefensible! How can someone defend Tinubu? In a democratic setting?? Where should we start from? The killing of Funsho Williams? to the imposition of candidates? To making himself the SOLE PROPRIETOR of the SWestern states?! In 2001-2 Tinubu told all the LG chairmen to be loyal to him. The few ones that were not loyal were set-up and impeached by their respective bribed Councillors ( I was in Nigeria then)!
He has bastardised the Yoruba race by sell them to the highest bidder in Government (Buhari and GEJ).
He literally imposes LG chairmen on Lagosians now. Even the richest and most powerful LG in Lagos(LILG) is now a sitting duck to Tinubu! This Tinubu (not even his real name ) of a fraud has bastardised the true meaning of "Omo luabi". He is not even a graduate?!

He has stolen so much money from Lagos, to the extent that, his family will no longer suffer for GENERATIONS!!! He wants to be an "Awolowo" by force but prosperity will judge him!
God will judge him and his cabal for what they have done to Lagosians! Yorubas should not defend him! He is a bastar.d! A disgrace of the highest order! It is because of Tinubu, Aworis do not want non-Aworis to rule Lagos AGAIN!
The  even used another Itsekiri bastar.d to insult the Awolowos. What a devil incarnate! May he rot in prison! LET HIM FACE WHAT Bode George faced in prison. Birds of a feather, folk together! All corrupt minded folks! Its only the people who know NOTHING of Lagos politics, that will defend him!

Hey, "Isoko" man, what has the civil war got to do with this thread?!

Now you are talking

Killayut those words like padi, mi , kilo she le, etc are actually yoruba words that krio people of serri leano use and they say they are related to yoruba

examples of Krio pigin are. (Pigin english originated from there) and these words did not origniate from Ijaws

bɔku (bohku) many, very much (< French beaucoup)

padi friend

waka walk

Wowoh Ugly

Rubbish botobata

Example of there sentences are

Ku[b]she[/b]. - "Hello." notic

yorubas use kilo she le

Kusheh Hello, Hi

some yorubas use K[b]i/u[/b] she le/h or can be kisheh (when joined)

Now go read about krio yoruba people and heritage

killayut:
All these  major  tribes  think they have not borrowed  nothing from their neighboring smaller   tribes,  I met an ONDO  state man  who told me A WIFE  or  My wife  in his ONDO  dialect   is  Eta  or  ITAH, (  may got the spelling wrong )  He said  it is not Iyawo   ,  I never argued  but wondered how come  an ONDO  Yoruba tribe would have that word similar to EASTERN IJAW  word for wife ?  Eta  (  ITAH )   meaning  my wife, APPARENTLY   some yoruba groups  neighboring Ijaw communities  may have borrowed  words from the Ijaws.   WHAT about  Iroh (     to tell  lies  }  in Eastern  Ijaw   IRO  means  to tell lies,  Iro-nye   or  Iro-ye  mean a LIE  while  Iro-bo  mean who tell Lies,  That was  borrowed  too  from Ijaw,  Consider  this,  in Yoruba  proper   BAJE   means  spoilt   or  bad,  what then is the difference  between Si  or Shi  and BAJE  in yoruba ? cos  Omo shi   or  Omo si  mean spoilt  being  . SHI  or SI  is a proper  Ijaw  word,   and it means  spoilt the same word  SHI or SI is also pronounced as  Sei,  a word  borrowed  by Yorubas.   What  about  Suun  or  Suuhn  ?  This is a word  mostly used in Lagos  meaning  shift  or move  forward  (  suun mu )   in EASTERN IJAW,  suuhn   mean to  elongate  or  to lenghten  or  straighten,   to  YE  suuhn ma  means  to  straighten an object  then   to  suuhn ma mu   means  to  shift  forward  a bit  or  move  forward a bit,  and that is  pure eastern Ijaw  borrowed  by Yoruba.  What  about FEH,  in EASTERN IJAW,   to  YE  FEH  means to buy,  Mu ye feh   (  go and  buy some thing )   borrowed  by Yoruba  kilo  feh (  what do you want to buy ),  There  are hundreds  of Ijaw words  borrowed  by Yoruba,

sure Nigerian culture are mixed even to words but I can't think of a yoruba word borrowed from Ijaws

None of those words were borrowed from Ijaws. Infact it is the other way around

suun/suuhn si ebe means shift and it has been used not only by aworis of lagos but even to Okun people of kogi

Itah/ eta can mean story/ chronicles. About the Ondo thing of wife being itah/eta is proberly a mistake

wife can mean iyawo/ Aya

also yoruba say iyawo mi atata  which is probably what u heard and could not say it well neither could u spell it.

IF IRO MEANS LIES IN IJAW WHETHER EAST OR WEST THEN I CAN TELL YOU THAT IJAWS ARE YORUBAS AND NOT THE OTHERWAY AROUND That I can be sure of and no kill me because i said it and also i am not claiming.  

Spoilt child mean various things in yoruba

1. Omo e baje ;;;;which u said correctly

2. Omo o[b]shi[/b];;;;;rubbish child

3. Most lagosian ie egun and awori people use Omo e ti yo idin ;;;;which mean the same thing

also Kolo fe/feh is "what do you want" not buy

Killayut maybe some word were borrowed from the ijaws. I can never tell since I was not born 1000thousand year ago or so but all this words you are using are used by yorubas from Kwara, togo, benin, kogi,

some of this words are even used by brazilains and kiro people of serri leano. This are groups that call themselves yorubas and I am sure have not have serious interactions with the ijaws to the extent that they borrowed these words from ijaw people.

I really think you should go ask your parents or elders to tell you the truth and beg them to stop brain washing you with lies. my candid advice for you as a friend and i am such you would appreciate it for life.