₦airaland Forum

FreeStuffsNG:
I completely agree.

The best thing is that the policy is based on emperical evidence. A study done in Ile Ife some years ago proved that students taught in Yoruba performed better than those taught in English language. Another thing is that this policy has helped nations like India greatly.

In few years, it will be extended to SSS3.

God bless Nigeria!

India has a single language (Hindi) that cuts across and is their second official language with English. Nigeria does not have such. Trying to restrict to three major languages of Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo is already a problem not to talk of when other languages are considered. The comparison to India isn't exactly proper.

Urheadmaster:


Chief Ayo Adebanjo is one among elder statesmanship that mean well for Nigeria

Adebanjo is pursuing a personal agenda with an attempt to coat it in nationalistic colours. Everyone knows he is always in anti-Tinubu camps in every election in the last few years.

Validated:
First off, you are not even part of the audience being addressed in the write up.

It is a simple matter. It is the turn of the Igbos. If we trully want a nation where peace and progress will reign, this is just the TRUTH. Afenifere sees it, Northern Elders Forum sees it, Ohaneze sees it, even Middle Belt and Niger Delta elders know this. It is only myopic online rants thar have nothing that would want the country destroyed.
Again, it is not blackmail. It is a political solution. It was the same political solution that brought forth Olu Falae and OBJ in 1999.

Nigeria is on a precipice and I gave you the solution. Take it or leave it. But be prepared for the consequences of your choice and it would not be online. If the fire ignites, no Tinubu or Atiku can douse it.

So you are saying another campaign strategy for Peter Obi is Awalokan. It is now the turn of the Igbo? If that is the case then Obi is not coming to take back Nigeria for the youths but rather to represent the interests and rights of a region. And the OBIDIENT movement promoting him is either not sincere or being fooled enmasse.

Historically, the North has reasons to be suspicious of the South East. In the lead up to the independence, Ahmadu Bello and the North advocated for a loose federation where any region can pull out if they so desire. Awo and the West advocated for a Federation while Zik and the East advocated for a Unitary Government for Nigeria.
At the end of the day, Nigeria started as a Federation of the three regions. In those early day, the East dominated the civil service in the Northern region and key positions at the national level.

In February 1966, shortly after the January 1966 coup that brought Aguiyi Ironsi to power, Isaac Adaka Boro,an Ijaw man from the South-South declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria because he believed the Eastern region and the Federal Government were unduly benefiting from the resources of the Niger Delta at the expense of his people. The rebellion which lasted for about 12 days was crushed under Aguiyi Ironsi who turned Nigeria into a Unitary Government in fulfilment of the desires of Zik and the East at the inception of the country. The colouration of the 1966 coup from the instigators to the casualties and the actions of Ironsi in handling matters subsequently lead to the counter coup and eventual pogrom in the North that precipitated the attempted secession of Biafra Republic and the Civil War.

As can be seen, the Igbo when they had power, arguably brought upon us the disastrous Unitary Government that has been operating in Nigeria till date and which has made the center exceptionally strong and which the North have subsequently taken undue advantage of. The Igbo were also some of the key architects of the situation that birthed the Biafra secession and the Civil War, while silencing the rights and voices of the minorities in crushing the Niger Delta Republic's secession attempt well before their own Biafra attempt. Surprisingly, their Biafra Republic unwittingly lumped the Niger Delta Republic and minorities in their secession map without proper considerations for those people.

Today the Igbo are in the forefront of the cry of marginalization in a Unitary Government that they arguably created and agitations for a Biafra Republic that has not taken into consideration the rights of the minorities within the republic.

What has changed in the attitude of the Igbo to the Nigerian ensemble to warrant them justifiably saying it is their turn at the center or Nigeria breaks?

https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3254839341233488&id=1066554933395284

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pulse.ng/gist/biafra-have-you-ever-heard-of-the-12-day-niger-delta-republic-war/05k4c94.amp

Brendaniel:
It is very annoying when some Yorubas claim that Tinubu or that Yorubas built Lagos, Lagos was FCT for 77 years built by the sweat and resources of every tribe even before Tinubu became governor, just Imagine Abuja that has been FCT for just over 30 something years, then the Gbagyi people begin to lay claims to the development of Abuja and insulting other tribes that they are Lazy, wouldn't it be an insult to every other tribe in Nigeria...

And please don't bring the bullshit of Enugu or Calabar as FCT, please state the number of years they were...

It is really annoying when revisionist historians try to underplay the contributions of the good, accommodating and illustrious nature of the Yoruba people to the success of the Lagos we all know now.

For those who try to claim that the Igbos or the FCT status of Lagos is largely what made Lagos what it is today, you need to study the Lagos history for better understanding.

Lagos was forcefully under threat of violence, made a British colony on 5 March 1862. By 1872, Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center and between 1890 and 1897 it had established a protectorate over most of Yorubaland.

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 the colony 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. This is more than 30 years before the amalgamation that became Nigeria.

By contrast the revenue from the Southern Protectorate which covered Oil Rivers area in present day Nigeria, the Aro Confederacy, Kingdoms of Benin and Bonny and Akwa Akpa (modern Calabar) and Oron Nation by 1900 was £535,902. Revenue from Northern protectorate was even worse and it is clear the amalgamation was done to fund the poor Northern protectorate from the prosperous South, from which the Lagos Colony clearly stood out.

While Lagos has the fortune of being along the coast, that distinction is not limited to Lagos within Nigeria. But the accommodating and illustrious nature of its Yoruba people contributed largely to what it has become. The ease of doing business in Lagos, the non-discrimination and welcoming attitude of the Yoruba people cannot be overlooked or over
emphasized.

Akunatakasi:
If they are charging him for statutory rape.. then he will either be granted bail or carry a light sentence..

Statutory rape occurs only if the woman is below the age of consent, which is clearly not the case here. The Police just want to waste the time of the Court. They are trying to use tehnicallity to punish the man by saying they will forward file to DPP for advice of jurisdiction while they remand him in jail because it is near impossible for them to prove not to talk of getting him convicted on statutory rape.

I am not a supporter of rape but this is clearly no statutory rape. Simply hearing the age of the woman makes the case to fall flat.

Nijagogetsense:
1 out of 1 million cases. But science has been making waves since time immemorial. If a mad person "accidentally" got cured in church, the media will be abuzz by the news. Church business indeed!


To cap it all, I wish him well

Science does not believe in inexplicable accidents. If the mad man is indeed cured, then it is a miracle and not an accident and you need to acknowledge that.

Joey4321:
It's a trick question. He respects atiku and would not want to portray himself as an egoistic saviour of mankind.

Leave the man alone. He knows better than you. Has had more interviews than you. Has met with more prominent people than you. Has been a governor of a state. Has played politics in private and public sectors.

If Peter Obi is so careful he doesn't want to offend Atiku, then allowing people to see him (Peter Obi) as a political saviour that wants to return the country back to the youth is nothing more than blatant fraud. The destroyers of this country will not sit down and let anyone simply take it out of their grip, so if Peter Obi is not battle ready, then forget it. He is a fraud.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
men of integrity

I beg to differ. Pa Adebanjo and the Afenifere group are well known as Anti-Tinubu for more than a decade now. They have always pitched their tents away from wherever Tinubu camps. So their position comes not from any integrity but personal hatred which is quite disappointing.

Penaldo:
These are raw facts

Tonye shpuld stop tryong to play on the intelligence of the people. His attempt at debunking is just a sleigh of hand. Why use naira when it is convenient as against the dollar which was what Ajuri used?

1. He didn't deny that the ECA rose to US$107 billion which was depleted down to US$2 billion by the PDP but wants to make out that depleting US$ 2.1 billion to. US$30 million is profligate.

2. US$ 1 billion in 2015 is around N180 billion while same US$ 1 billion in 2021 was around N 450 billion and N 680 billion in 2022. Using dollars convey a better picture.

There is really nothing worthwhile to use in defending the PDP. The subsidy as a whole even for APC regime is one big scam!!!

telim:
I dont know the lady but she is 100% right. May the Queen never rest in peace. I pray God put the queen in the most painful and deepest part of hell. The queen and her family damaged the lives of millions especially black Africans. They took over our lands stole our resources and installed puppets to control african future.

The blame traders, who have suffered worse fates in the hands of their own people that they now migrate for greener pastures to the lands of their acclaimed enemies.

If the British had not intefered in Africa, what evidence shows that we would have really fared better in anyway? Were pre-colonial African nations and people epitomes of justice, equity and progressive societies? Forget about the blame trading, human beings are human beings and African interactions with Europeans have done us more good than bad in the long term.

vanunu:
They queen supported the killing of more than three
million west Africans in the late 60s.

Some Igbo people need to realize that all is fair in love and war. When you go to war, you don't expect the other party or its allies to treat you with kid gloves. That is why you need to think about the consequences very well before going to war.

While I do not expect Igbos to remember the war with any fondness, hatred eats and harms the person harbouring it more than the target of such hatred.

History showed that the Nigerian side was supported by the United Kingdom, Soviet Union and United States of America among others while the Biafran side was supported by France, West Germany and China among others.

Why single out Britain and the Queen for hatred? Igbos earning their living in the UK, USA and other former allies of Nigeria in the Civil War are in millions. Would they have fared better allowing hatred to prevent them from working in those countries? Even Uju Anya is working in the USA for all her hatred!!!

Furthermore, if those countries and their leaders hate Igbos, would they have welcomed Igbos into their countries?

If Uju Anya fans the embers of hatred from the British and other allies of Nigeria during the Civil War, what good will it do her and the Igbo people? Was it not the same Britain and UK that Nnamdi Kanu was appealing to for his salvation from the Nigerian gulag? Was it not the same UK that had harboured him and other Igbos for so long? People need to rise above pettiness and stupidity. Biafra War was a bad decision by the Igbo ancestors who pursued the path then. And the results bear it out. To now continue to live life based on the events of the war is a recipe for everlasting sadness and bitterness that would do the Igbo no good. Even Jews that lost 6 million people to the World War have learnt to heal and move on instead of making enemies. Igbo people also need to do that.

And that is why Uju Anya's comments and actions need to been thoroughly condemned in all ramifications.

Pierocash:
They have repackaged agberoism into modern attire. Until they make b.sc the minimum employment requirement ,then I will take them serious.

The Lagos State agbero industry reportedly generates over N 120 billion annually. That is what Tinubu and Sanwolu are trageting with the Lagos Park Agency. It is a wise way to bring control of the parks under the State Government and direct the extra revenue to the State purse.

TossTos:
Na oluomo aim be this . He wan get his own faction of union where no one will be his superior , in no time , he's going to chase nurtw out of lagos and become the president for life ..

It is not Oluomo's plan or agenda that is being followed. What is happening is orchestrated by Tinubu in a plan to take away the motor parks from transport unions and channel the revenue generated to the State purse. The Motor Parks in Lagos reportedly generate over N 120 billion annually for the Unions and that is no small beans.

Racoon:
https://www.thecable.ng/fact-check-how-true-are-claims-by-tinubu-shettima-about-size-of-lagos-economy/amp

The IGR fact check is clearly flawed. Tinubu became the Governor of Lagos State officially for the first term on May 29, 1999. He therefore was at the helm of affairs for 7 months in 1999. To use the total tax generated in the year and the resulting monthly average as a basis to establish the monthly tax generated before Tinubu took over is clearly faulty. Using the 1998 total tax and resulting average is a better way to establish the average monthly tax generated before Tinubu took over.

MyVILLAGEpeople:
Look at that picture very well. Tinubu looks way older than Remi in the picture. At least Tinubu should be 20 years older because Remi looked so young there. Today Remi is in her 60s and Tinubu is saying he’s 70. Issoryte.

Your assertion turns reason on its head. Perhaps you are referring to another picture but any unbiased viewer can clearly see there is no way Bola can be 20 years older than Remi from that picture.

FreeStuffsNG:
So is he planning to sue the LASG on behalf of Local Govt when the LGs have not complained or what?

He has not quoted where the funds go to and who the beneficiaries of the funds are. Are the funds shared by Lagos Parks and Gardens and the LG where the funds are collected to ensure uniformity and prevent touting and the arbitrary mode of revenue collections LG use to tow cars away and slam outrageous fines?

It seems like he is keeping some information away and if his only argument is not the validity of the fees , how does transferring it to LG take such bill away from the park users? Of what benefit is going to court to argue against LASG and still pay the fees to Lagos LGA? smh.


Looks more academic than actual relief benefit. If you pursue this his argument, the LGs will just claim to outsource the fee collection to Lagos State Parks and Gardens as revenue collection consultant. .Lobatan.
check my signature for free stuffs!

It is not all powers or rights that are constitutionally granted to a body that the body can delegate or outsource. So it may not be enough for the LGs to say they have outsourced the right to collect levies. Particularly when the Lagos State House of Assembly had been misguided in making the law backing such collections.

snapshot:
The mood runs against logic,Bihari is about to complete 8years and the north still wants to retain power,my dear Nigeria is for all and not for North only

The North is not interested in any explanations to rationalize their mood to the South. They are simply concerned with what they want. If they can do it, they won't mind being the perpetual President of the country. It is the South that need to get their acts together. All the story of competence and lack of tribalism means nothing to the North in pursuing their own agenda. The South can continue to provide a divided front as long as they like. The organized group will always dominate the unorganized group. It is a simple law of nature.

PastorAIO:
But it is not just a matter of title vs name. We see that what the Yoruba traditionally refer to as Eledumare is different in character, bearing and conduct from what the christians call God. When they are conflated it creates plenty of room for misunderstanding which is quite irksome to those who originally called their Source of creation Eledumare.

If you say it is all just a name for the source then would you be happy if scientific atheist equated yahweh to Big Bang. After all they are both the source.

There is much about Big Bang besides being the source that makes it unsuitable for equating with yahweh.

Similarly there is much about yahweh which makes him unsuitable and in fact utter irritating when equated with Eledumare.

Eledumare or Olodumare comes from the phrase "O ní odù mà rè" meaning "the owner of the source of creation that does not become empty," "or the All Sufficient". It is clearly a descriptive title and not a specific name for the Supreme God.

Historically, the Yoruba worship Olodumare through the agency of the orisa; thus there is no image, shrine or sacrifice made directly towards Olodumare, who is more or less aloof from the people. As such there is hardly any specific characterization of Olodumare by the Yoruba people.

It is easy to translate Olodumare or Olorun into the Christian God for the Yoruba without much confusion albeit the Christian God brings God much closer to the people with a hand in the affairs of the people as opposed to the removed afar concept of Olodumare being aloof from the people in Yoruba belief system.

Yahweh is a specific name and not a descriptive name or title. I do not see how anyone can equate God much less Yahweh to the Big Bang. The Big Bang is an event and not an entity.

abobote:
Family business

I like the way soldiers humble police in Nigeria

The Soldiers have no reason to humble the Police by show of reckless brute force just like the Police have no reason to do same to Civilians in a sane country. All these gragra and show of shame are evidences of gross indiscipline and symptoms of a failing nation. In the USA or UK, retired soldiers who are not too old sometimes join the Police and do not see themselves as superior to the Police. In Nigeria, reverse is the case. Everyone feeling bigger than their boots!

Purerealist:
Recently I just observed that olorun or eludumare or oluwa is not the christian god "Yahweh", according to yoruba history, olorun had many sons and daughters, in fact obatala and oduduwa were his sons, but Yahweh had only one son according to the bible. Only if our christian brothers and sisters would know this when they praise olorun in churches.

Olorun means "Lord or Master of the Heavens".
Eledumare means "The Lord of the Creation and the Universe and all that is in it."
Oluwa means "Our Lord"
All the three can be simply translated as God in the English Language from Yoruba. They are not names but titles, since God itself is not a name but a title, just like King is also a title.
When Yoruba Christians sing and praise Olorun, they are praising God. They are praising God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. They are praising Yahweh.

Yahweh is the name of God the Father in Hebrew. His name is not even pronounced by Jews out of reverence. So you it is not easy to see any song of praise by Jews with Yahweh's name being directly called due to the high revrence for the name.

Your conclusion is wrong because it is based on faulty foundations and erroneous premises. Most religions only have titles for the Supreme God and not direct names. Allah for example is not the name of the Muslim God but rather a title that translates to God in English. And it is understandable because it is difficult for you to ascribe a direct name to someone who is far removed from you like the Supreme God and with whom you have no direct interaction.

Jews historically have a level of direct interaction and affinity with their Supreme God in Judaism in a way that is absent in most religions particularly traditional religions in Africa. So drawing parallels is very difficult.

clarocuzioo:
I think defamation of character is a purely civil matter, why not allow the courts decide

They are only trying to use the courts and the Police to intimidate People's Gazette. Defamation is a civil case and the man that wrote to request for source of story under FOI is only being stupid about his approach. It is well known that Journalists are protected from disclosing their sources for stories.

SmartPolician:
An Islamic head now knows who's a bishop more than CAN.

I dey shame for this man and his family members

Akintola and his MURIC contraption are nothing but a means of putting food on the table. Take him serious at your own risk.

Maxymilliano:
Excellence in Service must have got a whole new meaning to the organizers.

For the recorded numbers of jailbreak under his nose and more likely to come, the award should be for incompetent and not for excellence service.

Frank Aigbogun and his team really fall my hand

Excellence is defined as the quality of being outstanding or extremely good. Aregbesola as Interior Minister with oustanding record of prison breaks under his watch has demonstrated excellence in being incompetent!

DonFreshmoney:
40k.?

Something I paid 10k 2 years ago, and helped someone pay this year has suddenly increased to 40k. Everything just dey reach sky level. Lol

The Nigeria Police is not a Revenue Generating agency and that has been emphasized several times by different IGPs. What therefore is the rationale for increasing Police Clearance from 5k to 40k, an increment of 800%!!!

The National Assembly should step in and query the Police. That is one of their jobs in representing the people. Where is the 40k going to because clearly it is not going into the Government TSA account.

Raph82:
That's the basic truth, it started long time ago during the former governor's tenure. All major contract works in Osun are awarded to benefit him, they are taken to Lagos. The state's finances are indirectly controlled by him. That man is too terrible.

Why are people comfortable assasinating the character of a man without facts? Even if Tinubu is no saint, lieing aganist him makes you worse.

Osun State internally generated revenue (IGR) witnessed the highest growth of 131% in 2019 after Oyetola took over in 2018. The IGR in first half of 2018 was N4.7 billion while in first half of 2019 it was N10.2 billion. That is clearly contrary to Adeleke's claims that money was being taken to Lagos!!!

Osun State in 2018 generated IGR of N13.8 billion; N17.7 billion in 2019 and N19.6 billion in 2020 despite COVID-19 that affected the economy of the nation. There is clear increment year on year. Please talk with facts and not baseless sentiments.

https://nairametrics.com/2019/10/11/states-igr-hits-n691-11-billion-as-zamfara-others-recorded-biggest-growth/?amp=1

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/22/osun-igr-increases-to-n19-6-billion/?amp=1

madridguy:
Is this a joke or what?

I hope Senator Adeleke will not end up after 4 years destroying the goodwill the Adeleke family have in Osun State. He is facing a very big task and his utterances do not portray someone well prepared or who even knows the gravity of the task ahead.

Osun people are still suffering from nostalgia for the first term of Aregbesola when they receive 13th month salaries and Aregebesola spent without consideration for the future but soon became their enemy during his second term when he couldn't pay salaries as a result of his profligacy. By the time he left Osun had one of the highest deductions from their allocation at the Federal level due to crippling debt and had little to pay salaries. Consequently they were the worst offenders owing months of salaries backlog in the entire country.

If this article on the link below is anything to go by, then Osun people may have made a big mistake whoch they would soon realize. https://www.nairaland.com/7235272/osun-state-lost-best-governor

It is important to note that Osun state revenue witnessed the highest growth in 2019 after Oyetola took over in 2018. The IGR in first half of 2018 was N4.7 billion while in first half of 2019 it was N10.2 billion. That clearly does not buttress Adeleke's claims that money was being taken to Lagos!!!

https://nairametrics.com/2019/10/11/states-igr-hits-n691-11-billion-as-zamfara-others-recorded-biggest-growth/?amp=1

The attached infographics are from 2017 towards the end of Aregbesola second term.

Killmaster1:
This poor boy don price market.He go pay!
Dem go use am as example.ask Marley if the marlian fame



Hadley Chase available

The fact that he collected APC money and still blasted them after their loss in Osun State wouldn't be in his favour at all under an APC Federal Government.

Maxymilliano:
The more important question is why did BAT not fight the seizure of his assets?
Almost half a million dollars at that time is no moimoi, It is not even moimoi in this day .
So, why didn’t he fight the forfeiture or fight to clear his name ?

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini recently won a case that lasted over 10 years just to clear their names . With all the money in his coffers, why did Tinubu not fight for “ his clean money ?”

The Asset forfeiture case involving Tinubu was a civil and not a criminal case. Civil forfeiture cases are brought againt assets believed to be proceeds of crime without any criminal case against the owners of the assets. That was why the case was versus the money in the bank accounts and not Bola Tinubu.

In order not to lose the money, Tinubu decided to fight it in the courts and a settlement was finally arrived at that left him with around $1 million while around $400k lost to the US Government.

While the case raises a moral question for Tinubu, it is not an indictment before the law or evidence of crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States

helinues:
Claimed victory when INEC are yet to make official declaration.

Pdp na learner

It is surprising for PDP to demonstrate such stupidity when they are not a new party to elections in Nigeria. They know the rules. And their action is highly condemnable as it seeks to cast aspersion on the election in the event that PDP loses out.

Goahead:
Voting for Tinubu is patting Buhari on the back for a job well done.

Vote Obi for prosperity.

It is a very wrong and manipulative reasoning to say voting for Tinubu is patting Buhari on the back. Two thing are clear to any objective observer of the Buhari government:

1. While APC is made of CPC, ACN and nPDP, the colouration of the government has been that of CPC which Buhari came from. ACN where Tinubu belong was reduced to back burners as witnessed in the VP role.

2. Buhari and his cabal carrying on from the emasculation of ACN in APC also didn't plan to have Tinubu succeed him and tried all to scuttle his presidential ambition.

So your statement is clearly a fallacy with false reasoning.

Babs Ijesha doing under G with a 14 year old girl is a crime according to the law. If the law is not applied at times and people have gotten away from criminal acts does not mean what they do is right. The day they are caught and found to have committed the crime, then they deserve no sympathy.

lordlugards:
Lagos is a no man's land

The Fulani s has the right to have an Emir in Lagos, just like the igbo's have Eze Igbo,

I don't see anything wrong with that

Lagos is not a No Man's Land. Give credit where it is due. Yorubas are generally accommodating perhaps more than any other ethic group in the country.