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onenaira3:
Whatever this means, back to you. Enyi

It wasn't an insult. It just means that the person believes that what you're saying is unfair and biased.

AnambraDota:
Lagos GDP - $131B

Lagos FG allocation - N160B

Lagos population - 25million

Lagos number of LG - 20.

Not even 1% of GDP, earns less than she contributes.

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Kano GDP - less $30B

Kano FG allocation - N145B

Kano population less than 7million.

Kano number of LG - 44

Earns more than she contributes.


One Nigeria is sweetie me, I dey sweetie you.

Futher oil exploration should be suspended at Aguleri, Anambra State let's eat from Lagos the biig daddy.

You were once claiming that you were Yoruba and belong to the Arewa of Lagos sub-group, yet all you do is throw abuses against your own people.

You may be half-Yoruba, but that does not change the matter of fact of who you are.

Funny thread.

Another troublemaker on the loose, Nigeria will be great again under PMB, and by the time he has finished we will see who is still calling for Biafra; sorry Biafra.

AkinEgba:
You said its fake? Okay here's the full story below


In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.

The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.

My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998).

In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.

The Yoruba elite were the first, in 1962, to attempt a violent overthrow of an elected government in this country. In 1966, it was the violence in the West which provided an avenue for the putsch of 15th January. After Chief Awolowo lost to Shagari in 1983 elections, it was the discontent and bad publicity in the South-West which led to the Buhari intervention.

When Buhari jailed UPN governors like Ige and Onabanjo, the South-Western press castigated that good government and provided the right mood for IBB to take over power. As soon as IBB cleared UPN governors of charges against them in a politically motivated retrial, he became the darling of the South-West. When IBB annulled the primaries in which Adamu Ciroma and Shehu Yar Adua emerged as presidential candidates in the NRC and SDP, he was hailed by the South-West. When the same man annulled the June 12, 1993 elections in which Abiola was the front-runner, the South-West now became defenders of democracy.

When it seemed Sani Abacha was sympathetic to Abiola, the South-West supported his take-over. He was in fact invited by a prominent NADECO member to take over in a published letter shortly before the event. Even though Abiola had won the elections in the North, the North was blamed for its annulment. When Abdulsalam Abubakar started his transition, the Yoruba political leadership through NADECO presented a memorandum on a Government of National Unity that showed complete disrespect for the intelligence and liberties of other Nigerians.

Subsequently, they formed a tribal party which failed to meet minimum requirements for registration, but was registered all the same to avoid the violence that was bound to follow non-registration, given the area-boy mentality of South-West politicians. Having rejected an Obasanjo candidacy and challenged the election as a fraud in court, we now find a leading member of the AD in the government, a daughter of an Afenifere leader as Minister of State, and Awolowo´s daughter as Ambassador, all appointed by a man who won the election through fraud.

Meanwhile, nothing has been negotiated for the children of Abiola, the focus of Yoruba political activity. In return for these favours, the AD solidly voted for Evan Enwerem as Senate President. This is a man who participated in the two-million- man March for Abacha´s self-succession. He also is reputed to have hosted a meeting of governors during IBB´s transition, demanding that June 12 elections should never be de-annulled and threatening that the East would go to war if this was done. When Ibrahim Salisu Buhari was accused of swearing to a false affidavit, the Yoruba political elite correctly took up the gauntlet for his resignation.

When an AD governor, Bola Tinubu, swears to a false affidavit that he attended an Ivy League University which he did not attend, we hear excuses.

For so many years, the Yoruba have inundated this country with stories of being marginalised and of a civil service dominated by northerners through quota system. The Federal Character Commission has recently released a report which shows that the South-West accounts for 27.8% of civil servants in the range GL08 to GL14 and a full 29.5% of GL 15 and above. One zone out of six zones controls a full 30% of the civil service leaving the other five zones to share the remaining 70%. We find the same story in the economy, in academia, in parastatals.

Yet in spite of being so dominant, the Yoruba complained and complained of marginalization. Of recent, in recognition of the trauma which hit the South-West after June 12, the rest of the country forced everyone out of the race to ensure that a South-Westerner emerged, often against the best advice of political activists.

Instead of leading a path of reconciliation and strong appreciation, the Yoruba have embarked on short-sighted triumphalism, threatening other "nationalities" that they ( who after all lost the election) will protect Obasanjo ( who was forced on them). No less a person than Bola Ige has made such utterances.

To further show that they were in charge, they led a cult into the Hausa area of Sagamu, murdered a Hausa woman and nothing happened. In the violence that followed, they killed several Hausa residents, with Yoruba leaders like Segun Osoba, reminding Nigerians of the need to respect the culture of their host communities. This would have continued were it not for the people of Kano who showed that they could also create their own Oro who would only be appeased through the shedding of innocent Yoruba blood.
I say all this, to support Balarabe Musa´s statement, that the greatest problem to nation-building in Nigeria are the Yoruba Bourgeoisie. I say this also to underscore my point that until they change this attitude, no conference can solve the problems of Nigeria. We cannot move forward if the leadership of one of the largest ethnic groups continues to operate, not like statesmen, but like common area boys.
iii.The Igbo Factor and the Reasonable Limits of Retribution.

The Igbo people of Nigeria have made a mark in the history of this nation. They led the first successful military coup which eliminated the Military and Political leaders of other regions while letting off Igbo leaders. Nwafor Orizu, then Senate President, in consultation with President Azikiwe, subverted the constitution and handed over power to Aguiyi-Ironsi. Subsequent developments, including attempts at humiliating other peoples, led to the counter-coup and later the civil war. The Igbos themselves must acknowledge that they have a large part of the blame for shattering the unity of this country.
Having said that, this nation must realise that Igbos have more than paid for their foolishness. They have been defeated in war, rendered paupers by monetary policy fiat, their properties declared abandoned and confiscated, kept out of strategic public sector appointments and deprived of public services. The rest of the country forced them to remain in Nigeria and has continued to deny them equity.
The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have conspired to keep the Igbo out of the scheme of things. In the recent transition when the Igbo solidly supported the PDP in the hope of an Ekwueme presidency, the North and South-West treated this as a Biafra agenda. Every rule set for the primaries, every gentleman´s agreement was set aside to ensure that Obasanjo, not Ekwueme emerged as the candidate. Things went as far as getting the Federal Government to hurriedly gazette a pardon. Now, with this government, the marginalistion of the Igbo is more complete than ever before. The Igbos have taken all these quietly because, they reason, they brought it upon themselves. But the nation is sitting on a time-bomb.
After the First World War, the victors treated Germany with the same contempt Nigeria is treating Igbos. Two decades later, there was a Second World War, far costlier than the first. Germany was again defeated, but this time, they won a more honourable peace. Our present political leaders have no sense of History. There is a new Igbo man, who was not born in 1966 and neither knows nor cares about Nzeogwu and Ojukwu. There are Igbo men on the street who were never Biafrans. They were born Nigerians, are Nigerians, but suffer because of actions of earlier generations. They will soon decide that it is better to fight their own war, and may be find an honourable peace, than to remain in this contemptible state in perpetuity.

The Northern Bourgeoisie and the Yoruba Bourgeoisie have exacted their pound of flesh from the Igbos. For one Sardauna, one Tafawa Balewa, one Akintola and one Okotie-Eboh, hundreds of thousands have died and suffered.

If this issue is not addressed immediately, no conference will solve Nigeria´s problems. By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/


https://www.nairaland.com/2297511/yorubas-problem-nigeria-sanusi-lamido

This was written all the way back in 1999 before OBJ took leadership of this country.

Haba, you are this wicked to exhume something that is 16 years of age.

Calling you a troublemaker was an understatement. Sanusi obviously does not hold this view any more or has long forgotten about this.

AkinEgba:
Imagine If Aan Igbo Mman said this about Yorubas
Imagine the hell that will be let loose by the Yoruba press and public?
Imagine the lagoon that will await the Igbo man in Lagos
But Sanusi said this and walked away freely.
And Yoruba rewarded Sanusi by helping to elect his brother the president
Yoruba people are truly awusa sophisticated slaves

Nothing can help this disease that you possess to cause unnecessary trouble.

This news is clearly fake.

I'm beginning to really lose my patience with some people.

Yorubas can endure and perserve to a certain extent, but the fact remains that there are some troublemakers like yourself that has been set loose trying to divide the unity and prosperity our ethnic groups have shared before even our currents fathers were alive.

For the sake of Africa and our country please stop this attitude.

zendy:
Anyone clamouring for true federalism, regionalism, confederalism, resource control or anything along those lines is living in misplaced hope. How will you get any of these things when we all know that the 'parasites' known as Northern Nigerians will use their numerical strenght at the National Assembly to scuttle any such move? The North will never allow the south any form of restructuring because the current fraudulent unitary system is rewarding them handsomely. That is why I believe that the only way out is secession. We have to divide Nigeria! I'm an Igbo man with no historical ties to the Hausa man, so why am I in the same country with the Hausa man? There is no going back on Biafra!!

Did you say no historical ties?

Please do me a favour gerara here. Go and read the history of the Fulani empire and its embargo in the south-east before Nigeria was even formed.



But wait, the fact that you are saying you have no historical ties with the north is really beyond ignorant, you have shared the same land borders, same territorial waters, same trade and so much more for over 100 years.

My advice is that grow up and stop deluding yourself with your pathetic fallacy dream called Biafra.

P.S go and learn the meaning of history.

shachris:
not all igbos support biafra.

not all Yoruba support oduduwa republic

Not all hausa support boko haram

Not all muslims support ISIS

We would always have these elements among us.

No-offense but this indeed is a very silly analogy.

No Yoruba supports any whatever republic you stated.

Yoruba culture and language stretches all the way to Togo, so how can we support such fallacious idea

Good day,

God bless Nigeria.

stinge:
Haba, u for no use dt word qualify am now!
Remember say:
1. Na somebody papa.
2. Our former president. (weda u lyk it or not)
3. He rule and directed us for 11yrs.
4. During his reigning tenure, there was no boko.
5. During his tenure, their was more dan enof food (abinchi)
6. He paid awa debt and we have small money for bank.
7. He dey kick asses of rogue and bad politicians.
8. Think about those once first and confirm the genuineness b4 I continue.
Guy hand dey pain me. Therefore, let us appreciate our leaders.
An average american will neva abuse or insult their past governors not to talk of presido.
Even if dem pack money go dem house, leave dem. Your own sef go bad pass him own.

Absolutely, but wait did you call 60 billion dollars small money, he left more than double of what we have in our foreign reserves today.

POINT: He done a whole lot more than GEJ.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Old full still forming like a boss

Ah ah, are you a boy or a girl? Please refrain from insults.

Anyway, OBJ sef; seems to be enjoying he's controversial retirement.

SonOfEl:
whether you believe it or not, there are delta Igbos and river Igbos, any attempt to downplay this will be futile.

All Yoruba people know this.

There are even south-western Igbos and middle belt Igbos.

What I don't understand is why insults must be thrown around to justify a point. I don't believe that girl is Yoruba I believe it is an ignorant girl of Igbo descent who lacks certain knowledge.

But to be insulting her would be wrong. Simply educating her will do. If she refuses to listen.....

onenaira3:
I insult yolobas because you loser continue using others to shield yourself anytime Una want to start your natural hating bigotry. On Twitter, you losers whinned about Ibe appointment while using SE as shield, when they didn't follow you ppl in your dance of shame, Una came here to the website Una pretend to be anyone to start again, this time instead speaking for SE like Una did on twitter and supposedly Facebook, you pretend to be them. Therefore, yes I'll insult Una and leave the people Una are trying to use as shield alone. All I'm going to say is tell your bros to grow a ball. If they have a problem, they can say it without wearing a mask. We can still see through it

Who is pretending to be who? Have you found any evidence implicating that girl as a fraud?

I would insult you, but you're doing a good job of that yourself.

SonOfEl:
nobody is provoking anybody. impostors full this thread like sand.

Are you trying to implicate Yorubas into this?( shake my head).

The day your people take responsibility will be the day......

onenaira3:
Lady you are no SE nor Igbo. GTFO of here. Only you miserable yolobas have a problem with an anioma being chosen. Since SE refuse to dance to you illiterates dance of shame, you losers decided to be their voice.
Dimwit the are such thing as SS Igbo, I am one of them and proud of it, and you losers divide and rule tactics is flat out descipable. You yolobas are the worst set of ppl I've ever met in my natural born life. Monkey

You see what I am talking about.

Always insulting Yoruba people. When will you people take responsibility of your own actions? No need to insult your fellow brethren.

Just simple educate them.

You see. In our new Nigeria, no-one is impune to justice.

Let them be tried, if found guilty they should be immediately impeached.

Nigeria will be great again.

God bless PMB.
God bless Nigeria.

I thought I'll never see the day that south-easterners and south-southerners insult and provoke another.

IdiAmin1:
After every army attack on BH, the number of rescued people always run into hundreds.

Why were there no news of their abduction? Does it mean they don't have families who would cry of their abduction or what?

In my opinion, I think Northerners donate family members to BH?

The NA should watch it 'cos I don't think those guys are happy to be "rescued".

How can you speak so recklessly. Go and watch some documentaries on Boko Haram.


I have to condemn this arrant nonsense.

AroOkigbo:
God bless GEJ our hero.
The most humble President that Nigeria ever produced.

Barcanister!
You wan be OP, come be FTC join? Shioor!!

I'm more interested in beating INTROVERT in her (?) game!

Get a life, GMB has won and this nation is moving ahead to greater prosperity and development.

With all the evidence out there on different national newspapers on the corruption of your GEJ and information from neighbouring and western countries it boggles my mind how you can still defend and praise the undefendable.

Good one professor Yemi Osinbajo, Active vice president of the federal republic of Nigeria.

Change has come and change is here to stay.

DrLee:
then please, 1 naira to 1 dollar is very necessary o

Go and find me where Mr.Buhari personally said that he will make 1 dollar equal to 1 naira. There was once a thread offering up to 3 million Naira or more for those who can provide a credible source for this lie.

Sai Buhari.

doublewisdom:
Nah only Southerners EFCC dey arrest sef?

What is your problem?

Isn't this man a Nigerian before anything else. Your tribal bigotry has made you so blind to see that this 'southerner' stole 13 billion Naira.

Grow up, the EFCC are targeting all they suspect are corrupt.

Muhammadu Buhari is a man of integrity, a man who is undeniably respected by all.

Bringing back the lost status of Nigeria since the 29th of May.

ProfEinstein:
He deserves it . He who kills by the sword must die by the sword

Ignoramus, you are deceived by the western media. Go and learn about Libya and the great things Gadaffi done for his people.

Smart man. General Muhammadu Buhari is a man of integrity and intelligence.

What is western Nigeria , Chai there are some wicked elements trying to destroy this nation.

ilawanson44:
[size=18pt]And why is a dollar N240?

Where are the pictures of the refineries working?

And if they are working, who set the platform for it to work?

APC and their lies![/size]

Did you even read the article it said the devaluation was caused by the fuel scarcity that Jonathan left behind. Furthermore it was also caused by the effects of the elections, of which GEJ was still the president as of that time.

tbaba1234:
The governor said “the up-tick in year-to-date inflation rates were traceable to transient factors such as energy, arising from scarcity of petroleum products around the country, poor electricity supply and increased demand for transportation and food, from the build-up to the general elections and the ensuing Easter and Sallah celebrations.”

This got my attention the most. The GMB critics have been blaming Buhari and his government for the devaluation of the Naira recently, yet this was caused by Jonathan leaving this country in a dire state.

Is it Buhari's fault that Jonathan refused to sort out the fuel scarcity problem. Even worse was Buhari in charge of Nigeria during the election period or was it GEJ.

Nonsense, no Yoruba person supports such nonsense. Anyway Mods please immediately delete thread.

Taich:
Bros am not sure Dick Cheney is on the article. The Vp mentioned here was ur former Vp who is an arrow head in the Halliburton scandal. And mind u the case has been concluded. Halliburton as a US corporation paid a fine for giving bride. Then part of the money is to be returned to Nigerian government but on the condition that those Nigerian officials mentioned will be prosecuted 1st, before US will return the money. Obj,Yar'adua and Jonathan did nothing about it. Now let's see how this one will go.

Yes indeed it might have been concluded but it doesn't mean it cannot be re-opened.
When they meant vice president I believed (and still do) that they where pointing to Dick Cheney. Why because Atiku could have been involved in this case, but had no real dominance or stance in this case, it was Mr.Cheney who was cleared of the prosecution list by Goodluck Jonathan hence why I believe they were definitely referring to Mr.Cheney and do remember Mr. Cheney was the former CEO of the Halliburton company.

Evidence of my claim:

[b]In early December 2010, the Nigerian government filed corruption charges against Cheney in connection with his role as the chief executive of Halliburton.[49][50] The case relates to an alleged $182 million contract involving a four-company joint venture to build a liquefied natural gas plant on Bonny Island in southern Nigeria.[51] Earlier in 2009, KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, agreed to pay $402 million after admitting that it bribed Nigerian officials, and Halliburton paid $177 million to settle allegations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission without admitting any wrongdoing.[52][53] In mid-December 2010, the case was settled when Nigeria agreed to drop the corruption charges against Cheney and Halliburton in exchange for a $250 million settlement.[52] According to Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the $250 million would include approximately $130 million frozen in a Swiss bank, and the rest would be paid as fines.[51]

The Federal Contractor Misconduct Database details 10 instances of misconduct since 1995 under which Halliburton has agreed to pay settlements of $791 million.[54] A further 22 instances of misconduct relate to the company's former subsidiary KBR.[55][/b]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton#Controversies

Although you might be right. Who knows.

Oh no, it's about to go down.

The idea of the former American Vice president Dick Cheney on the list of who Buhari wants to prosecute shows that the GMB's power holds no bounds.

He is a man of integrity, and anyone who hasn't realized that GMB is doing all of this just to restore and justify Nigeria for the wrongdoings that this country has gone through is indeed any enemy of the state.

AnambraDota:
Am from Epe, my mother is ibo from Anambra , go back to Oyo and Osun states let's have our state

I can now see what is the cause for your devilish plans to cause tension in the Yoruba community. Ignoramus go and read a book.

Yorubas are all the same. You will be stampeded by any Yoruba whether from Lagos or not because we do not tolerate uneducated Tribalist Bigots like yourself.

Ezenwammadu:
I thought Yorubas love themselves

Yorubaland stretches all the way Togo. The Yorubaland In Nigeria itself is double the size of the Igbo region. That wouldn't be possible if we didn't respect or love ourselves.

I have never heard of the Aworis, until now of course.



Modified: AnambraDota or whatever fraud you are, I have done my research and the Aworis are not actually demanding anything. Secondly they are Yoruba, so how can they be marginalized by themselves.

Finally, let me make myself clear, I am Yoruba, I am from Ogun state originally (dad's side) but Born in Lagos. My mum side ( grandmother) was born and has heritage in Lagos.

So get your ignorant facts straight.