₦airaland Forum

Tazmode:
Poor kid caught in this tussle


I hope the spell or juju was presented as an exhibit

RIP.

It might just be heart attack or DVT related.

Nigeria is not going anywhere.

Too many corrupt people.

At least I like their honesty. Though of course in real life they will form deacon, deaconess, mallam & hajia.

I thought zombie sycophants said Nigeria is now awash with Buhari's cheap locally produced rice that nobody wants imported rice anymore.

Chai! The propaganda of these people na wa o.

Abagworo:
Mbok where are all these billboard projects you mentioned with regards to Jonathan?

Well, a blind person will not see them. Because the amount of ignorance that pervades Nigeria explains why we are where we are. After all Amaechi once said Nigeria has no trains. Only for him to be snapping pics in GEJ trains soon after entering office.

There are of course children of hate who do not know that GEJ founded Fed universities Ekiti, Bayelsa, Katsina and every state that did not have a fed university before. 14 in total, check with ministry of education.

Did you regularly travel between Lagos & Benin between 1980 & 2015? I guess not. If you did, you will know that that road was never as good since 1994 until Jonathan repaired it. Between 2004 & 2008, many times, I spent from 9 to 12 hours on that road, having to divert into the forest at Ore to avoid the very bad road. Some passengers were even kidnapped in that bush.

Having used Murtala Mohammed Airport for around 30 years, the last time the airport was as good as during Jonathan's time was around early part of Abacha's regime.

I know many people comment here just because they have internet access, not because they have any reasonable real life experience or objectivity to post anything useful.

Omudia:
Sometime last year they made us believe that crude oil was worthless and that it's revenue wouldn't even sustain the budget but they still want to die on top.

Do not mind those clowns. See them in jubilation. They said has no value anymore.

Yet they want to die over power at the centre and have refused to restructure Nigeria for development. Those up North sponsor mass marriages and the usual two-faced double speaking suspects hang on to their Northern masters apron strings for crumbs.

Yet they all claim is now of no use. Still they never stop claiming that Jonathan was able to bring train, repair airports, build 14 new universities in 6 years, steady electricity, repair the problem Lagos-Benin Highway, organised free & fair elections and more because oil price was high.

That oil money is all they know shows they have nothing else holding Nigeria together.

Their bigotry & hypocrisy stink to high heavens.

hardbody:
For the first time this year, you made sense. Continue to grow in wisdom. My maths wasn't exceptionally bad but when I went in for masters, i realised thar i was gifted enough to have made a first class in maths if I had taken it as a single honours course. It's so logical a course that if teachers knew to impact, students will do very well.

I have complimented you ooo, don't turn it to a fight.

Lol.

ephi123:
Jonathan might be a buffoon but what do we call Buhari? A buffoon raised to power 10 maybe.
I couldn't care less about any individual tbh, just get the country working. Eod.

APC goons forgot that they are now in govt. They are still playing opposition because they have no idea how to rule. They are even celebrating that VP has made Naira go to less than half its value when they took over 21 months ago. That is how pitiable they are.

A president going to hibernate abroad like Yar'Adua is the change they voted for. A very pathetic bunch of ignorant bigots.

Buhari's silly and mega clueless govt has cost Nigerian economy 20 times more money than whatever corruption APC goons bang on about Jonathan.

Nigeria has no future. Let different tribes go their separate ways. Any marriage half as dysfunctional as Nigeria would have ended in divorce decades already. It seems the thieving cowards of Nigeria cannot let go.

OLAplusONE:
If I be phcn staff I go just enter d street transformer and remove the plug until further notice

Maybe they have tied 21 tortoises & heads of dead pussycats around the transformer too, who knows.

babyfaceafrica:
lolz...maths require patience and constant study..how many of our teeming youths are patient and study regularly?..most of us study 1 week to exam..it does not work that way..in as much as teachers need to teach well,students should not read maths like civic or geography..they will fail!!!

Maths needs practice. You cannot really just read.

I used to use a whiteboard to help some kids living not too far from me. Same for Chemistry equations balancing.

Holding a marker pen and practising on the board kind of empowers the kids. Just encourage them that they can do it. Parents should start early and see where kids struggle.

babyfaceafrica:
Why are most maths teachers men sef?....very wicked bunch especially primary and secondary school...is it a requirement that you must be wicked and be a man to teach maths in government schools?

Because men typically study maths/science more except biology.

The best Maths/further maths teachers I knew were women then. One was an Indian lady. Both were maths & further maths wizards. Yes even the lady teachers liked to cane a lot.

But it is only because students unnecessarily fear maths. Fear & anxiety makes understanding it even more difficult. Maths like physics is pretty logical so I cannot usually get why people loathe it so much. Except that some maths teachers were pretty awful communicating the subject.

Nobody is bad in maths really. When well explained, most get it. Like my friends we used to help out at school.
Teachers should make learning maths fun for students. It is their duty.

mmsen:
Who isn't better than Buhari?

BornStunner1:
mulattoclaroo opal4real areafada2

My brothers come see oo

Oba gha to kpere ......ise!!!!!

Ise!

His Imperial Majesty is just saying the simple truth. Igbo people live peacefully in Benin. And many have for centuries. Many we grew up together especially the girls remain like sisters.

Dad was so interested in me marrying one of them then. A very pretty girl. Both dad & her mum had been calling each other in-laws since we were kids. I thought it was just a joke o. But she was a girl I considered baby sis then. I just could not cross that boundary.

Issues between Igbo & Benin people are very rare. Even issues with Agbor & Oboro people were typically rare.

An Igbo man was a famous Benin warrior nicknamed Ogogobiaga. We proudly acknowledge and praise those who contributed to our greatness, be they the sea-faring Izon, the dental surgeons (Ivbiosakon/Etsako), warriors/medicine men/royal sword casters from Edo Central/Igueben) and elsewhere. An empire is not built by few people only.

EVEn Olaudah EQUIANO, the Igbo boy who was stolen & sold into slavery wrote many interresting things in his book entitled: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, published in 1789. In it he identified himself as an ethnic Igbo and citizen of Benin Kingdom.

Biafra war partly undid centuries of peaceful co-existence. Mid-West was even initially neutral in the Biafra-Nigeria war. But things have greatly normalised & my mum remained fond of Igbo people's straight business-like attitude.


All relatives of mine who married Igbo people have all succeeded in life.

Igbo people trusted the wrong people, those who talk from both sides of their mouth.

Twizzy30:
Who wrote that shitt up there. Op are u sure u aint the one. Btw Nigerian guy living in Sweden smartly married a Swedish lady, so as to be legally certified with resident permit, but the lady was not aware of this. He lied to the lady that he is from Kenya because of the bad reputation of Nigerians in that part of Sweden. After their wedding, the lady returned home one day and informed the guy that she met her friend, a Swedish lady also married to a Kenyan and will like them to have a dinner together. The Naija guy was disturbed and kept thinking how he will get out of this dark spot. He postponed and postponed the proposed dinner until he got tired of postponing. Finally the D-DAY came, they all sat down in a restaurant. Our Naija guy was quiet and was sweating profusely in spite of the cold atmosphere of Sweden (-8C). The ladies asked their husbands to communicate in their local dialect since they are both from same country(Kenya). The Naija guy being a man of great savvy decided he will just speak Igbo, if the other guy didn't understand, he will claim that he is from another tribe and region in Kenya. Then he started, "Nwanne a wum nwafo owerri, owerre nchi ise, I wu kwanu onye olee, daa? The other Kenyan looked up and replied "Ah Nwanne, ekele diri chineke, onyena asuru ndigbo uzo ha. E chekwe m na enwela m nsogbu taa. Abu m nwafo AHIAZU Mbaise . Nwanne birikwe o! They shook hands and embraced each other to the admiration of the ladies. Igbo's no dey carry last. Igbo kwenu! Don't laugh alone, share.

mulattoclaroo:
the painful part of these who propaganda by the Yorubas is that they know the truth but tribalism, inferiority complex and low self esteem will never allow them say the truth. Amongst the 7 greatest African empires of medieval times, the Oyo empire was not included but the Benin, Axum, Mali, Songhai, Mossi, Ethiopian empires and the kingdom of Ghana were all included. I honestly don't know where these yorubas get their useless facts but I'm very happy that you always show the stupidity of these people here on nairaland. Binis are not in the same class as the yorubas. We are above them. The only thing they have is numbers and if they try any nonsense with us, we would annex the whole of Yoruba land in a jiffy.

That is the truth.

These Benin Empire deniers are like anti-semitic holocaust deniers. They are jealous children of hate. They are so pained that they like to paint their poo as gold and others as nothing. But in so doing they expose their deep-seated insecurities in the face of overwhelming facts.

When they were not allowed to claim Benin as part of Yorubaland & Benin arts as their, they suddenly went about a hate campaign of empire denial. Suddenly they came with Sungbo Eredo as larger than Benin moats and ramparts. Even the Chinese are still struggling to prove that Chinese wall (a country of around 1.4 billion people) are still struggling to convince the world that their walls are larger than Benin Earth works. By the time Udo town moats and other town walls/moats are fully studied, the Chinese will be no match even.

Why Benin gives them so much nightmares & sleepless nights is beyond me.

They hype themselves like empty barrels & noise makers. Luckily we understand their nature from history and deal with them with a barge pole.

See how they are hyping their VP now. They are carelessly & boastfully exposing their main purpose of hyping/supporting Buhari initially. They were so envious of Jonathan's providence that they impatiently wanted one for themselves too. They cannot even wait for Buhari to answer God's call first. Since only God knows who will go first. Not necessarily by age or obvious health status.

The careless empire denier there called Oba an illiterate. I know his former UK university and is by no means a low ranking school. His school mates I know went on to work for some of the biggest multi-nationals worldwide. The Prince himself excelled in business & went on to become Nigerian Ambassador to many countries. I also personally knew some Nigerian ambassadors in Europe (one even was Yoruba, who I will not name for privacy sake) in the 1990s, and none had a better education than the Prince.

Ordinarily, I would not mind their envy but lots of sensible silent readers visit Nairaland so records have to be set straight.

The most funny thing is when they quote their pioneer empire denier writers mostly from Ibadan Press as authority. I do not know how they expect those to impress even a primary school boy from Benin.

Marriage, dowry & bed to do poko na poko.

Wonderful!

We just dey waste our time down South. Those Northerners nor give a damn. To them all is well.

The babe wants to armtwist you into marriage.

One funny thing is that sometimes they form for the guy who will marry them & scatter the punany with any yeye guy outside.

You can never trust all these antics.

A pastor who wants her for himself may have seriously brainwashed the babe.

Please recruit more of your co-tribalists & jealous revisionists and let us talk. Work almost done for today. I will have free time soon.
Bring it on. Agbero shouts, curses and tantrums are all welcome.

Olu317:
it isn't true. Bini was NEVER A EMPIRE. THE PEOPLE OF WHITE BACKGROUND WHO WERE MERE EXPLORER THAT WROTE THAT DIDN'T KNOW PEOPLE OF FORESTED REGION. did Bini ever at anytime control MAHIN? IKALE? AKURE? IDANRE? OKE IGBO? ITSEKIRI?(yourbas) etc then others like URHOBO? IZON? all these claims were PAPER WORK and not in reality. Do you know a kingdom called OKA AKOKO? That's is the largest Yoruba settlement in Akoko. They killed Bini warrior like pigs.... Go and check your facts correctly.

Yes Benin did in most. Of course since 1897, several revisionists started gradually. But still in 1979 during coronation of Oba Erediauwa, I remember how many rulers from far and wide came to pay homage and proudly highlighted their traditional vassalage and alliance to Benin. Most of those rulers are gone and Nigeria has ethnically polarised far more since then. Power game & sharing national cake now supersedes everything.

Most of the first Ordjes, Ovies and Obas in many of these parts were Benin princes. Even Brass in Bayelsa. Some still quietly come to be confirmed by Oba of Benin. And when sucession disputes break out, many run to Oba's palace to arbitrate mostly on the ground that they are ancient Benin princes.

I will remind you that for that reason, Oba of Benin once chose a prince of Brass as the Iyase (traditional Prime Minister) of Benin. His family is the well-known Otokiti family in Benin today. As well as two from Eastern Yorubaland. Okoro-Otun being the best known Ado-Akure (Edo n'Ekue) Iyase who served three Obas of Benin. All these within the past 250 years.

The current Iyase is of Urhobo heritage. Iyase is the second position after the Oba. It is non-hereditary and all Edoid people and Benin diaspora people from Imperial times are technically eligible. So a large pool of current Yoruba (isaleko, Idanre, Okitipupa, Owo, much of Ekiti, parts of Ijebuland), Itsekheri nobility/royaltyl (of whom most are Benin descendants), Urhobo/Isoko, Degema (in Rivers State) and many others can be chosen.

Let me remind you that Iginuwa was the son of Oba Olua of Benin. He was sent to Ewere area along the coast to become the Ogiame (Lord/ruler of the seas). With a full reinue of courtiers similar to Oba's own. Hence Ogiame is the Olu's first title. The late Ogiame Atuwatse wanted to annul the Ogiame title years back. His family simply asked him to abdicate until Gov. Uduaghan & Itsekhiri nobility waded in. The Olu quickly ditched the idea. Go & read it.

You guys know very little about the imperial past of Benin. It is woven into the fabric of Benin life. In its diversity. Even in the morning greetings.

Much of what I know about history I learnt from people born around 1870/1875. Some were even nearly 20 years old in 1897 when Britain attacked Benin. They were well over 100 in the 1980s. All consistently telling us same story. I did not need modern historians to know as a child. Not much different from written version. I did not begin learning history just to argue online. There was no internet or mobile phone when I began.

As for killing Benin soldiers, remember that propaganda is the first tool of war. When Americans were about taking Baghdad, that funny Iraqi minister said life on TV that American soldiers were committing suicide outside Baghdad.

You can chose the propaganda version that panders to your primordial tribalistic instincts.

In any case, why go to war if you are not prepared to die. Benin were never cowards.

Olu317:
You need not be angered over the truth but it a pill that everyone must swallow. The British Empire destroyed so many things by usurping position to people who doesn't belong to that class. The people who wrote about different empire and kingdoms knew to a large extent the kingdoms and Empires. Bini was a kingdom and not a Empire.
An Edo indigene tried to distort history but truth can't be short change.
Egharevba wrote about Edo Kingdom and the Oba Bini's relationship with Ooni of ILE IFE despite the fact that some of you want to distort history. The man is adjudged as one of the greatest researchers on Edo history.

Especially issues on kingdoms. Even as far back as the 1930s. Standard book had been written as a guide to follow. Take for instance
Bradbury R.E. wrote about the Benin
Kingdom and the Edo speaking peoples of south western Nigeria, London 1957, P. 19).
Above is an example of book written about Bini Kingdom. Where do you genuinely get your information?
You even blundered again, the wife of Ooni isn't from Bini but immigrant to Bini. Go and clarify before assertion. I came across a lot of Binis that claim Majek Fashek as a Binian but is he not a Yoruba man? All Majek's life was nearly in Bini.
Bini is a kingdom but not as a Empire like OYO. There were account of Yoruba development in 13th century by IBN BATTÛTA, a Malian, Another Malian Scholar Ahmed Baba wrote about Yoruba in 16th century, then Sultan Of Sokoto read out what he saw in their Tariq/ a form history which can explain people's identity people. This history is clear as Crystal.

To begin, what is an empire & who is an emperor? In layman's terms?

Put simply an empire is a Kingdom that has vassal kingdoms/chiefdoms, whereby the emperor is the King over other Kings.
From 1440 Benin became an empire. Until 1897.

That Benin had many vassals is not disputable. The records are there. I do not know the problem you South-Westerners have with that.

Very soon somebody will be telling us that Modakeke or Ikorodu was a powerful Yoruba Kingdom. Una nor dey tire for propaganda?

Benin had many vassals in Eastern Yourbaland. Deal with it. Reality sucks sometimes. Even Lagos & Beyond. At a time when there were no cars, planes and marching on foot & using boats, and very occasionally horses (that died easily in tse-tse fly prone rain forest) the areas from Delta to Lagos & beyond that Benin Empire spanned and the various tribes & kings that were under Oba of Benin more than qualify to be an empire.

That you lot needed Hausa to tell you your history and even give you Yoruba name & kowtow to them till today is well-known. Please do not bring the writings of those Jahadists to attempt to prove any history on me. I poo on it 24/7. Because already we sent Jahadists packing from attempt to invade Edo North. We had no Afonja to betray us there. Something the "oh so mighty Oyo" cannot boast of.

So Because England was always called the Kingdom of England automatically means that they had no empire. Failed education alert again.
There is no pain on my part. Just amusement plus letting you guys know that a tribalistic & envious revisionist history remains a lie, no matter how many of you spew it or how many bogus academics you quote.

The records of contemporaries are there. I need no jihadists to tell me that.

As somebody who knew Majek walking around town with a guitar before he even teamed up with Sunny Okosun, any Benin person who claims he's Benin is not wrong. I never heard him speak Yoruba (but I know can speak) or talk about his Yoruba dad. He grew up & was nurtured in Benin by his Benin Mum. I bet if he had turned out to be like Anini, Yoruba people would use him to insult us & not claim him.

Suddenly, success has many uncles, neighbours, area friends, aunties, etc.

Boleyndynasty2:
Nigeria problems no start today. These are people who deserve to be investigated and our yams taken back. But Buhari's fight against corruption didn't go that far, its only d little boy GEJ he can go after. This country is just finished.

You know these small boys all over Nairaland only know GEJ, Yar'Adua & maybe tail end of OBJ govt.

GEJ took very little, mostly some around him stole.

O0ni:
Similar problem cts across all of una, inability to read or to deconstruct and understand what you read.

Here: who tired of their kings and invited Oranmiyan, the son of the "Oghene" of Ife to come and rule them, which he did, ... to govern Benin in a Portuguese letter of 1517 may well refer to members of these associations,31 while the Osodin and ...

In History in Africa, Volume 15, African Studies Association., 1988 - Africa


Here: In i486, the Portuguese sent Joao Afonso Aveiro to explore further the five "slave rivers" of the ... a king in the East, the oghene, who concealed himself behind silk curtains and apparently held ...

In The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
By Hugh Thomas

Here: The only other contemporary success story for Christianity had been in Portugal itself where the Portuguese had succeeded in ... He talked about the Oghene ( Ooni), the priest-king of Uhe, to whom the Oba of Benin owed ancestral fealty.

In Thisweek, Volume 7, 1987.


Here: The name of the first Oba of the second period is well-known, but the story surrounding his ascension to the throne is interlaced with events that underscore the Edo-Ife (Yoruba) relationship, and this has gone on for several centuries. It can be safely assumed, however, that Ife which the Edos call Uhe existed before the Edo and Oyo empires. Uhe has retained its constitutional and spiritual importance for the Yoruba

http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/edoofbenin.htm

Also see "A History of the Yoruba People" by Stephen Adebanji Akintoye.

In this work, a detailed relationship of Uhe & Benin was constructed showing Bini throne as a subordinate to Uhe throne - in the references portuguese document/archive was referenced.




There was no ranking until Benin had subjugated the entire northern & southern regions and this did not happen until early 20th century.



Then you'll have Republic of Ogiso abi? I hopeit happens, we will be waiting for you lot to reach to us for help as usual.



Lol another excuse. Were the Egba, Ijebu and Lagos punished too then?



I cited examples of Oba of Lagos & Oloto/Idejo, I cited Amapetu & Olugbo. Did you ever read on how Olu of Warri was played against Oba Bini resulting in the defeat of Bini army & capture & sales of their soldiers into slavery? The Europeans gave recognition to whom they met first, Ooni was seated far off in the forests but they kept heaing of him everywhere.

Alaafin being rated first before Ooni was because the Europeans assumed Alaafin was the head of all Yoruba from the many treaties signed with them especially during and after the wars. They did not come into contact with Ooni until later, Leo Fobrenius's findings shocked the entire Europe and Britain made sure they put all the excavations in their corner rather than it going to Germany. This opened the eyes of Europe to the King they have heard so much about from different accounts.



Kingship in Ife/Yoruba solely revolves around Ifa & Orisa divination. Hence age, wealth, connection matters not.

Nonetheless, in Yoruba land a king recognizes and respects his elders as they respect him. Oranmiyan may have been King in 3 different places but he knew to give his older brothers respect. All the kings fall in line when Orangun Ile-Ila is around.



I see you are trying to hype your tiny Bini kingdom. As I said before, you people twist history just to write your own history.

The same Oyo that banned slave trade which Owu flouted and led to the complete demolition of Owu till today?

You should point fingers at Ijebu and Badagry people for the supply of people to the slavers.




Of what relevance is this?

If your small kingdom was subjected to slave supplies you lot would be extinct by now. How many una be?

Besides, y'all have ashewo and axemen in diaspora now

The matter of slave supply and slave trade is another matter entirely.



What does Ododuwa/Izoduduwa mean in Benin?

What does Omonoyan mean in Benin?

With these meanings we can then decipher what is what.

Oyo planting tree with Bini does not signify equality or anything at that. Otun Ekiti history stated there was no war between both parties on their land but rather the tree was planted to demarcate each person's area of influence - Benin in Otun was solely trade not war nor conquest. Otun itself was a market town/trade post so what are you on about here?

Oyo raising its army from all the towns in Togo, Dahomey and all Yoruba towns in Nigeria will overrun Bini quicker than anything else. The safety Bini enjoyed was the Oranmiyan's influence which Yoruba took serious and a perspective they continue to see from, foolishly.

Ogedengbe was going to sack Bini but your king begged him not to and this is not mention a larger and well organized Oyo army.

It pains me that Oyo or at least Ogedengbe did not ravage your tiny kingdom but at least Itsekiri did and sold alot of you into slavery




You are the one who needs to read. Outside of Bini's relations with Europeans, her minor military skirmishes here and then, the only other thing relevant that draws Bini to light is her art and maybe monarchy both gotten from Ife/Yoruba.


Addendum: Stop calling that Kingdom an Empire.

See:

And this is supposed to be an empire?



In you people's hatred for Yoruba and OCD to equate yourselves with the Yoruba you try to downplay or twist Yoruba history. Can you see how Oyo, a massive kingdom that spanned across 3 West African countries and became a regional power that showed in the 15th century European map was referred to as a Kingdom but Benin that occupied sparse territories was referred to as an Empire? Bini wey nor reach Ago-Oja (present Oyo) in size yet it is an empire.

You people will only try, throw fits, froth in all the orifices in your body but your tiny kingdom will never attain the history, relevance, humanistic contribution and status of Ife/Yoruba and her kings.

You can try again, I dey wait you and your illiterate Oba bini foot-soldiers.

So in your micro-cephalic brain, a UK trained former diplomat is an illiterate while the product of cramming, pamphlet buying, cultist den & lecturer settling (aka failed education system) like you is a scholar. Clap for yourself. That alone shows that your attempt at intellectualism, quoting various mushroom publications, is an exercise in futility. Without merit whatsoever.

In your mind, your most powerful Kingdom (Oyo) will just as a matter of picnic come to Otun in Ekiti to plant trees & demarcate territory. Hahaaha! It shows you only go round quoting mostly ethno-centric books that pander to your ego.

Benin can never want anything from Yoruba land. We made that clear by democratically leaving South West barely 3 years after independence. Because we always knew that the contraption called Nigeria was, is and remains a massive aberration. That is why we never deliberately signed any treaty to cede power to the British or anybody. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Water will gradually find its level.

The war the Ijebus fought, important to them for sure and a rare thing, it was of little consequence to the amalgamation of Nigeria.

To the point that even your kinsman Ola Rotimi spurned it and wrote about Ovonramwen N'ogbaisi instead. A mere footnote in history is Ijebu fight.

We do not even need to attach to former slave diaspora for attention. We never sold ourselves into slavery.

So you really believe Ogedengbe if truly in a position of strength will just be persuaded by begging to attack Benin. Oh boy, your hero Ogedengbe simply chickened out like the cowards that abound in your area when he realised the herculean task ahead of him. Forget that thing. Pure bobos.

Nothing you can do about The Great Benin Empire. It is part of extra-ordinary human heritage and intelligence in governance, warfare, arts, culture, civilisation, organisation and more, previously thought impossible for a black man.

As for our women, in life it is good to know your worth. We already did centuries ago by selling no slaves. If a woman must ply the oldest profession on earth, I hundred times prefer her hawking her wares for hard currency in international league than for an agbero's plate of Amala & ewedu. If you must eat frog, eat a fat one with plenty of meat. Even the most successful Nigerian footballers sold and still their skills in the foreign leagues: Okocha, Kanu, Obafemi Martins, Mikael, Peter Odemwingie, late Keshi & Yekini, etc.

Back in local league, the Benin chic called Itohan (with hustle names Wuraola & Zainab) still got your most eligible monarch, Ooni of Ife as hubby. So whatever our women have seem quite in demand. Therefore the joke is on you.

That Benin was betrayed by the relatives of Afonja, mostly likely behind the back of the Benin Prince that is Olu of Warri, should not surprise anyone. After all they routinely betray themselves.

Next time the BBC or any other foreign channel is extolling the glorious feats of ancient Benin Empire, you can smash your TV, your gen or set your house ablaze in a fit of jealous rage. If it's a local TV station rush into their studio in anger, randomly pick out any number of them and start biting their nyansh.

But at the end the antics of an inconsequential tribalist will remain a mere comic relief.

Pylony:
Mind you, OBJ has nothing to do with what happen outside our shores. The ex-governor was convicted abroad and not here in Nigeria, so get your facts right.

Hmmmm. Not so straight.

Remember that Nigeria has to co-operate with UK for some evidence to convict him. OBJ & GEJ were still on relative good terms then.
Actually I wish OBJ played a part in it & I believe so. Several things suggest that. OBJ has intel on virtually anybody who counts in Nigeria. He also knows which intel is worth its weight in gold. Remember he was C-in-C for 8 of the last 17 years. And he has the international reach to make use of it.

After being generally disruptive and throwing tantrum if he doesn't get his way, helping send Ibori to jail is one of those things he has done well.

We need of them in jail.

See Collabo.

Do you call this Coniflato collaboration?

Sounds like cornflakes.

verygudbadguy:
Enough of these photo section abeg. If Nigeria was a sane country, people would be ashamed to associate with the ex-convict.

Here, we celebrate thieves and give them more resson to empty the cookie jar.

Let us be honest. We lost our way ages ago.

None of them is free. Ibori just got on the wrong side of some people. Especially OBJ.

Ibori fancied himself as VP to Atiku. That was his undoing. OBJ doesn't forgive such things. He did not steal more than Tinubu or Odili who were his peers as governors then. Save for the fact that OBJ withheld Lagos allocation for a long period. But whatever Tinubu could not grab in office, he did during Fashola's time through business deals.

Therein lies our dilemma.

There is absolutely nobody among our political elites that is free of serious corruption today. Among them, it's pot calling kettle black.

We're in a veritable quandary.

LaylaAli:
I bet she went and had an abortion and made up this nollywood story to cover up!

You badt gan.

The babe should admit what she did before sepsis sets in. She needs urgent medical help.

Or she might not be aware. The dude might have mixed abortion drugs in her drink, if she told him she was preggy.

I hope her family can avoid stories that touch.

omohayek:
Yes, let's put 500,000 more people on the government's payroll, because what Nigeria needs right now is yet another unsustainable dole scheme! This announcement is evidence of Buhari's near-total intellectual bankruptcy, nothing more.

We all know that running a budget of 70% recurrent expenditure is unsustainable. No country grows like that.

A general economic boom should be our aim, to ease more people into the private sector.

How long can we be borrowing to fund socialist employment schemes?

24/7 electricity is our best bet. Even 20/7 will be good enough. I enjoyed constant 18/7 under GEJ, yet we complained. Let energetic & success hungry young people innovate.

And sound economic policies. Let us become a tech hub, IT & such services. Give incentives to foreign investors. Create special tech zones, Lagos/Ogun, Eastern zone, SS zone, Northern zone......be it Uyo/Calabar, Ikeja/Otta, Kaduna, Nnewi.....strategically.
Curb inflation. Be steady. Don't rush into new policies just for short term gain.

Carry our Aba made shoes, peanuts, rice & samples of anything we produce. Go to countries and canvass for market for our goods. Do it with passion. Fight for market share for us abroad. That should be the focus of govt & ministers.

Sitting around FEC table every Wednesday rubber stamping things won't bring anything.

All these adhoc moves seem aimed at placating the public.

Rip

basilo102:
"Turkish investors" indeed. Let me not see any of these useless "investors" anywhere near SE. Ordinary Furniture making you are looking for Turkish investors. what happens to local ingenuity?? how many "investors" do we have in Aba leather cluster??

My brother the thing tire me.

Fact is there are many individuals making excellent furniture now. The industrial scale type of the 1980s will make sense if only we can find export market. But remember most countries control imported goods. They should rather promote individual artisans rather create another govt company to line private pockets.

Nothing really new. That country has major problems and those left behind are only looking for scapegoats.

boriswole:
Tribalism is our number one problem in nigeria. imagine this rubbish. shouldn't the most qualified person get the jobs?

Or is tribalism preventing the right people from getting the right job in governing the country ? Chicken and egg question. We all know that Emefiele has no free hand running our currency. Sadly you hardly ever see a Nigerian resign. Unless to take up a bigger job.

But refreshing that at least Ayodele is not Igbo.