₦airaland Forum

A street named after Obafemi Awolowo in Ebonyi State.[/quote]It is a shame on the State Awolowo family and the entire Yoruba people to name a single land street after Late Pa Awolowo. You better rename your street... what nonsense... do you know some of the popular and busy places and roads named after Zik and Ahmadu Bello? Naming a single lane and street of just 4 km in Igbo land after a great sage is now something big in your eyes. ... Even for me, as an ordinary man in Nigeria, this is the kind of street that was named after me...and I'm not up to the shoes of Pa Awo.

You still have the money with me. The new landlord is threatening to displace me with the army.[/quote]But. You collect the army from the but. You and Lord...your case becoming weaker... You know, I wish you didn't collect... and the money back to the former... landlord... or the notice that was given wasn't up to the legal. statutory...you could have a legal. statutory...that the house has been sold now and the former landlord was so kind to...pay you...your landlord a case, but your case is becoming weaker

So, case, you are looking weaker to eat. Are you the lawyer who is supposed to use the money to pay for another place? ... Also, start looking elsewhere ... Also, because... it seems the new landlord... because... doesn't want you in his property...

As if I were a prophet, I mentioned yesterday that I had a bad feeling about the list of students who were selected for the JAMB exam, which promoted Anambra State as having the best students. We are aware of the corruption that has existed in that state since the Peter Obi administration. ...


You cannot claim to be the best students when you obtained your scores through corruption and manipulation. Jamb should administer a new test to the top five students on the list to determine who actually performed the best.

I smell a rat... This type of Jamb score is used solely for political propaganda... Allow Okeke Christian and the other names on the list to retake the JAMB under strict supervision, and have the computer immediately mark their scores. And see who truly gets that top score without cheating....

Penguin2:
Lol!

Could you believe over 12,000 of them joined anonymously just to hear him speak.

They fear him to their pants. They just pretend on Nairaland.

More than two million ObiDENSe continue to spy on the incumbent president broadcast in order to spread false information about his administration.

BodyCount:
No matter the politics or the twisting of history and culture, THE ALAAFIN WILL FOREVER BE A SENIOR TO ỌỌNI OF IFẸ.
The name Yorùbá is synonymous with Ọyọ people and Alaafin, and not any other group.

Historically, the place of Ọọni is a CHIEF PRIEST, and not a king. It was in the time of Awolowo that the Ọọni started being relevant, due to the fact that he was not in good terms with him....

THE ALAAFIN IS THE SUPREME KING OF THE ENTIRE OÓDUA RACE (YORUBA RACE).

PS
Let all the ỌMỌ ẸRUS and pained people argue with their keyboard.

This is what you think.However, Alaafin is viewed as subordinate to Ooni of Ife by the Ijebus, Ondos, and all other Lukumi worldwide.In Oyo State, let your past remain with you. The non-Oyo people are aware of Alaafin's and Ooni's true superiority.To learn more, read the book by Banji Akintoye.

Tflex01:
Abeg wetin VDM do for una?


This generation self! 😂

VDM was not born when the June 12 struggle occurred.

Busted: Peter Obi Actually Left More Debt For Anambra Than Any Governor Before Him!

Peter Obi's claim during a recent interview that he left $150 million and ₦36 billion in the coffers of Anambra State is dishonest, fallacious, misleading and typical Obi doublespeak.

The truth is that Peter Obi is a manipulator and economic terrorist who knew what he was doing when he made that inaccurate statement.

Please fact-check me: Peter Obi actually left a debt of ₦127 billion that was due IMMEDIATELY after his successor, Governor Willie Obiano, took office. This debt mainly consisted of unpaid monies owed to contractors engaged by the Peter Obi administration.

More of the debt came from approvals Peter Obi made as he was about to leave office. He deliberately timed these contract approvals to be due when he handed over to Mr. Obiano, so he could claim that he left money and Governor Obiano squandered it.

In his last days in office, Mr. Obi was accused by his successor of employing thousands of new staff for the Anambra State Government at the last minute, without making provision for their salaries. When Mr. Obiano took over, these workers' wages became due.

If you take into account the value of the Naira in 2014, when Peter Obi handed over to Governor Willie Obiano, which was approximately ₦150 to $1, the ₦127 billion debt that Mr. Peter Obi left behind was worth around $847 million, far outstripping the so-called money he claimed to have left behind.

Also, the money Mr. Obi claimed to have left behind was not all in cash. Much of it was in supposed assets, which were overvalued by Mr. Peter Obi. When the new Obiano government surveyed the quantity, it found it to be grossly exaggerated, with some even being liabilities.

For example, Peter Obi invested $12,616,356.43 of Anambra State funds in Intafact Beverages Limited. He claimed that this was part of the assets he left behind. But in actual fact, that brewery became a loss-making business, and the shares held by the Anambra State Government depreciated to about $5.4 million.

Additionally, much of the actual cash Peter Obi left behind was in Fidelity Bank, where he was one of the largest shareholders and a former Chairman.

Peter Obi placed an amount equivalent to $20 million in a Fidelity Bank account with account number 5030047097. This money was earning interest for Fidelity Bank, interest that was partly going into his personal pocket. If I am lying, let Peter Obi sue me. I have all the facts.

Considering this, Peter Obi's claim that he left money behind for the Anambra State Government is not only false but also almost criminal when you consider that from 1999 to 2023, Peter Obi was the ONLY Anambra State Governor under whom poverty increased.

Please fact-check me: All the other Governors before him and the Governor immediately after him reduced poverty. But Peter Obi increased poverty in Anambra from 41.4% to 53.7%, while purporting to leave money in a bank where he held significant shares.

It is believed that the reason Peter Obi did not build a single nursery, primary, or secondary school and university (which is partly responsible for why poverty increased under his watch) is because he wanted Anambra State Government funds to sit in Fidelity Bank, rather than to be used for poverty reduction.

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Jerrynet:
What is the Supreme Court of Nigeria Afraid of exactly?

As of June 4, 2025, the supreme court of Nigeria has not yet scheduled a hearing date for the case filed by 11 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors challenging the federal government's declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State. The case, registered as SC/CV/329/2025, was expected to be addressed after the court's Easter recess, which concluded at the end of April.

The lawsuit contests President Bola Tinubu's March 18 declaration of emergency rule in Rivers State, which involved suspending Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu, and all members of the State House of Assembly for six months. Retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas was appointed as the Sole Administrator during this period. The PDP governors argue that these actions exceed the President's constitutional powers and undermine democratic federalism.

Despite the urgency of the matter, the supreme court has yet to fix a hearing date, leading to criticism from civil rights groups like the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), which accuses the court of stalling proceedings on this critical constitutional issue.

Why are derailing the topic? Is it your resentment or the fact that your presidential candidate lost the election?

immortalcrown:
Illegal detention. The government of illegality.

By the time Nnmadi Cownu is sentence to life imprrison then your eye go clear. .. all the chest - beater .. why can't you go and rescue him since 2015 that he has been locked up. ...

Anyway , I greet our DSS prominent tenants. ...ain't you glad that he is not paying rent. ..he is living in a conducive accommodation free of charge. ..

Smartcitizen:
You are deceiving yourself, this was also how they asked Pa Adebanjo to take over from Pa Fasonranti because of old age and Tinubu and his gang never allow the man to do his work because he was always talking about equity in the Nigerian politics.

Stop the rigmarole, like a slowpoke. There is no faction in Afenifere. If you have a contrary fact, come with it and stop joining people with your divisive imagination.

LagosOrigin:
It has always been your prayer that he join APC because of the massive cult like followers behind him but Obi will never join APC that has succeeded in crumbling the economy of Nigeria

"Anywhere Obi Peter goes, I must follow" is a sign that you lack a distinctive ideology that you hold in high regard, meaning that you have allegiance to a mere man. I do not need a soothsayer to know your tribe. What a catastrophe of destiny!

Pythagoras001:
This faction is different from the late ayo adebanjo faction

No faction exists in Afenifere.

We recognize Pa Fasonranti's leadership.

chidiokay:
thats not the 1st time Peter obi is attending a pope inauguration, he is a tiitled man in catholic

Instead we can say Tinubu is the one desperate to score cheap political point by desperately showing up, very thing to that man is politics, marrying Remi sef naa politics

Is a devout Muslim who accepts a Christian invitation in Rome considered desperate? The person who was charged with Islamizing Nigeria by continuing to support the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Did Peter Obi receive an invitation to Rome? Is not it disrespectful for a leader to attend an event to which he is not invited? If it were not a religious gathering, Peter Obi would be arrested and imprisoned for this type of disobedient behavior if he had attended a political or security gathering.

BigDawsNet:
What has past gentlemaker minister done so far for the youth

It is not a sign of a good leader at all to compare the youth minister to a VDM who is completely uninformed and keeps breaking the law and acting foolishly. The fact that he wore a police uniform is a terrible example.

Those young leaders we knew back then were smart and talented.

Enjoy your VDM while it lasts, though.

Roger3D:
And how does all these accolades for an ex drug dealer put a single naira in your bank account?

Go ask your grandfather.

This is a reverse psychology . We all know Peter Obi is also one of the desperate politicians that we have in Nigeria who kept on cross-carpeting from one political party to another. Recently , he travelled to Rome uninvited just to take a picture standing with the Pope. What a waste of resources!!!!
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is always 100 steps ahead of all these bread-and-butter politicians .....

Racoon:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ZUWWospgZ/

The entire Festac might undergone reconstruction in the nearest future. .. so. ..

Chief Priest shouldn't be ignored hence forth. .he is working clandestinely for Obi Peter. ..

thinkmoney:
Dear mischievous and disgruntled fellow, to get to Lagos from the east, an individual or a marching army will till today go through Ore and Benin and that’s what Biafra Army did.
There is no record of Biafra army operations in Ibadan. If they had operated in Ibadan it won’t be an indiscriminate attack on civilians or civilian infrastructures.
To show -not really you but honest observers- how Lagos became the advance and special city it is today is because the British colonizers and business interests chose it to be the capital of United Nigeria one need to note;
1. Other yoruba states are just like most other states in Nigeria and doesn’t look extra like Lagos look today. It’s noteworthy too to know that Lagos was never the capital or close to a main city of Yoruba at anytime before the colonizers, so one cannot argue that it is unique because it attracted special and brilliant yoruba minds that wanted to turn it to a model city.
It’s useful to point out that Ogun and Oyo due to their proximity to Lagos are beginning to do fine. They are enjoying ripples from Lagos development. For example, some companies that have their commercial activities centers in Lagos build their offices in Ogun and Oyo. And there are even people that commutes from this neighboring states to Lagos everyday to tap from the abundant opportunities.

2. Lagos was never among the biggest and advance towns in what is today Nigeria before the European colonizers came. The big cities were;
-Sokoto
-Kano
-Oyo
-Ife
-Benin
-Arochukwu
-Ilorin
-Kazarganmu

To point out the noble intentions of Ojukwu, I will leave here the images of his letter to Adebanjo. An honest person that is not a bigoted annd wretched pathological liar can make their conclusions from it.

Hey, as long as you can, you are free to interpret Ojukwu's, his soldiers', and his IBO people's actions however you see fit. I'm not perturb. According to a common adage, a leopard cannot change its skin. Furthermore, average IBOs are not only crafty but also treacherous.

You mentioned in your post that traveling to Lagos from the Central Eastern States requires passing through Oree, Oyo, and Benin; however, you neglected to mention what the Ojukwu soldiers did upon arriving in Benin and Oree.How unarmed civilians were raped and looted by soldiers in Benin who were trying to take over Lagos State.What a charming evasive method.
Now, speaking from someone with some guerilla warfare experience, let me address this.In his initial broadcast, Ojukwu declared that the central region would become a bulkanized region in order to break away from the Nigerian government, protect the territorial integrity of all IBO land, and provide property to its citizens. His broadcast made no reference to Yoruba land, and it is possible that he intended to seize Lagos State from Yakubu Gowon, the then-current head of state, without endangering the lives or property of any Yoruba residents.

To let you know that the truth is far from you, the northern soldiers killed Ironsi, an IBO man.After the first coup, which was planned and executed by the IBO agenda, I could have expected Ojukwu and his soldiers to besiege the most prominent locations in the north and to retaliate by destroying some of the northern political leader remnants. If the Ibos and their ancestral warlords were cowards, they could have protected their territory and made sure that the Fulani, Hausa, and/or the entire northern caliphate suffered a great loss going forward. However, you are here defending nonsense.
Second, I would disagree with you on the subject of Yoruba land's civilization and infrastructure development because "Res Ipsa loquitur."

Thirdly, you requested that I highlight some of Ojukwu's malevolent intent in the letter he wrote to Major Victor Banjo. Laconically, these are what I have noticed:

As the commander in chief of the Biafra Armed Forces, the author was introduced in paragraph three. With malice in his heart, he wanted Victor, an Ijebu man, to help him lead his Biafra soldiers in the liberation of Yoruba land. As a trained professional, I can say that the interpretation of paragraph 3 speaks for itself.

Additionally, protecting Biafra's "sovereignty" and never being threatened were discussed in paragraph 3 (iii).

Now to expose his actual malign intent, paragraph 3 (iv) abandoned all discussion of Biafra's sovereignty and protection in favor of using Victor Banjo to liberate Yoruba territory. Uninvited freedom. The answer to the question of whether Yorubas needed his military intervention is ABSOLUTELY NO. All of Ojukwu's letters to Victor Banjo in section three (Iv) were unsolicited and help from tribal bigot Ojukwu. You could then see that the Nigerian army, which is dominated by Yoruba, fiercely opposed all of Ojukwu's military interventions in Yoruba. Under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, Nigeria soldiers defended the Yoruba and their people, as well as the government infrastructure that held significance for them at the time.

Ask your remnants and ancestors who was Benjamin Adekunle during the Civil War; they will be able to tell you a lot about him.

thinkmoney:
You have foamed from your mouth a lot of lies that it may just be better for one to leave you to continue to roll around in your vomit.
For the simple minded people l will just point out two wicked falsehood from this irresponsible fellow:

-Ojukwu did not March towards Lagos because he wanted to fight Yorubas or wanted to confiscate Lagos, he marched on Lagos because Lagos was the capital of Nigeria and Biafra was fighting Nigeria. If the war were to have happened today and Ojukwu was still alive, it’s Abuja he will march against and it won’t be because he hates Gwaris.

-all the vital infrastructures in Lagos that made it unique and that offered it the platform to continue to develop at an astronomical rate more than the other states and that made it to continue to attract people from everywhere were mostly built or expanded on during the time of the oil discovery from the now south south; infrastructures like the sea port, FESTAC town, the third mainland bridge, Federal palace hotel, the airports, the barracks, government house, CBN etc. it’s this infrastructures, the sea port especially, that serve as the platform that enable Lagos to get the wealth, big markets, head quarter of companies, embassies etc that set it off on different pedestal than any other state, Abuja inclusive.

Ignore this bigoted delusional post

HmI can confidently interpret you as an IBO or Biafra man who constantly gleans crumps and crisps that fell from the table of a roadside news vendor. If I do not respond to your rubbish, someone might think you have a reasonable and sensible rebuttal to my article. I have carefully read all of your crap to determine your level of political inclination and to gauge your intelligence quotient.
You made a sincere effort to sound pertinent, but your attempts exposed your character and lack of critical thinking. What an unnecessary waste of time! Let me comfort you, however, with this proverb: "In the city of blind people, a one-eye man is their king... and ruler."


The second paragraph of your ridiculous, naive, and obtuse rebuttal states that "[b]Ojukwu marched on Lagos because Lagos was the capital, not because he wanted to fight Yorubas or seize Lagos"[/b. This is among the nonsensical remarks I have made regarding the recent civil war controversy. The declaration of Ojukwu Bulkanization was made in Biafra territory. (East Central Nigeria only), but we witnessed Ojukwu in Ore, Ibadan, strategically sponsoring some IBO members to set fire to Yoruba infrastructure in these areas. Some IBO members in Lagos planted bombs in some of the city's most well-known locations to cause chaos, but the majority of them were later detained and imprisoned.
Ojukwu intends to use Major Victor Banjo, an Ijebu soldier, to conquer all of Yoruba territory. To be honest, your ridiculous argument is unconvincing. Read and comprehend the letter that Ojukwu wrote to Victor Banjo if you wish to verify this assertion. Return here so we can examine the letter.

Furthermore, you claimed that Lagos State's growth can be traced back to its previous position as the capital of Nigeria, but this is again false.A well-organized Yoruba land existed prior to the arrival of the colonial master.The bulk of the infrastructure, including WNTN, Lagos Airport, Seaport, and Airport, was Yoruba-built when the military came to forcibly overthrow the regional government and convert it into federal infrastructure under Aguyi Ironsi's rule. Go ahead and verify this claim.

How revisionists seek to destroy Lagos History as Yoruba civilisation

By Ogboni High Chief Priest Dr Oladoyin Odebowale

Here Odewale replies Engr Joe Igbokwe's treatise in Lagos

Joe Igbokwe , it has never ceased to amaze me reading revisionism being presented as historical facts. The Lagos that was designated as the Federal Capital Territory was Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lagos Island, Ebute Meta, Surulere and Yaba. The defunct Western Region started from Jibowu. Mushin, Agege, Maryland, Onigbongbo, Apapa, Badagry, Isolo and Amuwo Odofin all belonged to the old Western Region. Ikeja was the acronym for Ikorodu-Epe Joint Administration. Ikorodu, Epe, Ibefun, Igbogbo, Simawa, Imota, Agbowa, Ikosi, Ketu, Alapere all belong to the people of Remo. Mushin, Agege, Alimosho and Abule Egba belong to the Egba people. Isolo, Badagry(Agbadarigi), Ijegun, Ijora, Amukoko, Badia, Isale Eko, among others, belong to the Awori. They are all parts of Lagos State now.

General Gowon created the confusion to weaken the agitation for an independent State of Biafra in May, 1967. Major General Aguiyi Ironsi had promulgated Decree No 34 of 1966, the Unification Decree, to abolish the Regions. He was also advised to harmonise the civil service, thus destroying the Western Region's civil service that was reputed as the best.

Those decisions killed him and led to the civil war. Gowon, working for Murtala Mohammed and the Fulani oligarchy, consolidated on the treason committed by Ironsi and his cohorts against Nigeria. The commanding heights of our economy in the Western Region were appropriated in the name of the fraudulent One Nigeria. Our farm settlements were disabled. Our textile industries were sold to cement merchants by the military leadership acting as proxies for the Fulani expansionists. Our people became emasculated.

Lokoja had once served as the seat of the colonial government. Calabar also played that role. Why is it Lagos that should lose her indigenous identity on account of her former status?

Ibadan was the political capital of the old Western Region. The plan was solid. We had our industrial estates for real development scattered all over the space. Most of the industries in Ikeja, Oregun, Ilupeju and Apapa had the imprimatur of reasoned governance. We did not allow indiscriminate dumping of refuse on us under the guise of importation.

We had our housing estates. Bodija Housing Estate was the first in Nigeria. We had our Cocoa House, the tallest in West Africa at that time. It was our money. No Igbo had any investment there. Adeola Odutola and Jimoh Odutola were real industrialists. They produced tyres locally at Oke Ado in Ibadan. We had our paper mill. We had plantations. There was Igbeti marble industry in Oyo.

There was Wires and Cables industry in Ikeja. Red Brick industry was at Oregun. We had huge investments in Solel Boneh and Taylor Woodrow for construction. We used them to build University of Ife, the most beautiful campus on the African Continent, and Liberty Stadium, the best in Africa, where Dick Tiger fought for a World Boxing title. It was our Cocoa money. We had the WNTV, the first television station on the Continent of Africa. It was established with our Cocoa revenue too. Obasanjo and his cohorts turned it to NTA.

There was the WNBC which became Radio Nigeria due to the brazen conversion of our patrimony. University of Ife was also stolen from us by the military. We had hope. Oluwalogbon Motors, Doyin Motors, among others, operated on our land. Ladipo used to be our Palm Avenue. It was in Western Region. Alaba was in Western Region. Ajegunle was in Western Region. We did not invite anyone from his village to settle among us. We embraced them still, when they came. Our economy did not depend on proceeds from drugs, human trafficking, armed robbery, kidnapping, politics and the exploitation of the peoples of the South South.

The fraud introduced by Ironsi and Ojukwu, and adopted by Gowon, ensured that development is now measured in terms of the quantum of proceeds from oil, narcotics and politics laundered to purchase the properties of a people laid prostrate by the combined onslaught from the Sahel and the forests.

Juli Pharmacy became a Plc. It is struggling to survive now due to the criminal activities of fake drug merchants in the South West. Alabukun was produced by Chief Odulate, the father of the first female SAN in Nigeria, Chief Folake Solanke. Importers of tramadol and other substances from Asia have pushed Alabukun out of the markets on our lands. They are killing our people in a manner akin to genocide through fake drugs and beverages. They use the blood money to buy up the places rendered desolate with the support of the fraudulent 1999 Constitution, as amended, an offshoot of Ironsi's Decree 34. Hypocrites continue to concentrate on the murderous activities of the so called Fulani herdsmen, who have been less pretentious.

We must be able to differentiate the Lagos Colony of 1851 from the Lagos of 1900 and 1914. The Lagos of 1951 is also different from the Lagos State, one of the contraptions created by fiat in 1967.

It disingenuous to pretend not to know some of these facts. It is this terrible mindset which predisposes some ungrateful denizens of the forests to designate our ancestral lands as belonging to no one. We have never coveted what belongs to others. No property belonging to the Igbo was seized by us during the civil war. Those who returned received all that was due to them. Ojukwu's father had properties in Lagos.

The Federal Government confiscated them for obvious reasons. He later took them to court and won. The Igbo people lost, immensely, in the South South due to their hostility against those people.

We are not aware of any compensation paid to the Awori, Remo, Ijebu and Egba owners of the space delineated and decreed to be Lagos State after the forceful take over. The industry of real merchants, industrialists and farmers built the old Western Region. It was the sweat of our fathers that others wanted to steal from us. They planned a coup after they lost the 1965 general elections and became the minority in the Parliament.

The alliance, which Zik and others refused in 1959, became important to them after they had put Awo in prison successfully. The coup failed and the war began. Ojukwu wanted Lagos. We were the focus of attack, not the North. They came as close as Ore before they were routed. They dropped a bomb at Casino afterwards.

Nobody is apologising for the incessant insults heaped on our people daily by uncouth, ill-mannered criminals who have failed to develop their backward villages.

The latest, after the invasion of our land, is the aggressive attempt to impose on us political leadership through sheer mischief and arrogance, depending on our hospitable disposition which has allowed uncontrolled influx of oriental rustics. This same attitude is replicated in all our states but not the Northern parts of the country. It is an insult to suggest, even remotely, that economic refugees, supported by the fraudulent political structure designed to expropriate our patrimony, came to invest on lands. It smacks of either "arrogance of ignorance" or deliberate mischief masked as fair-mindedness, for those, whose unfolding agenda point at a pernicious scheme to dispossess us of our patrimony, while presenting themselves as the victims. There will be a backlash very soon.

Below is the Essay by Engr Joe Igbokwe which prompted the above response

What I am reading here frightens me. May be we did not know that Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 86 yrs and Nigerians invested here before the capital was moved to Abuja in 1990. All the federal assets were left here . No buildings , roads , bridges, markets, offices etc were moved to Abuja. I have been here for more than 40 yrs and I once sited some documents on how those properties were shared and some sold.

Today Lagos growth in infrastructure, economy, real estate, commerce, industry, transport, internal revenue can be attributed to the obvious and painful truth that Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 86 years and every Nigerian East , West , North or South invested her. Let me ask this question: why is Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun not like Lagos? Today the growth of Lagos is filtering into Ogun, Oyo and even Ondo. Drive from Kara bridge Lagos to Shagamu interchange, look left and right and see what is happening there in terms investments. Ka fi suru na!!!

Today Nigerians are investing heavily in the FCT and if tomorrow the capital is moved to any other part of Nigeria FCT citizens that were paid heavy compensations and relocated by the late Justice Akinola Aguda will come and be claiming FCT. Make we de fear God now!

Today in Nigeria Igbo people do not have a quarter of what they have in Lagos and Abuja in Igboland and yet they do no care because we believe in the proverb: Ebe Onye bi ka Ona Awachi( wherever you leave take it as your home)

All these nonsensical effusions I see everyday especially in Lagos frighten me to the marrows, it is
Kindergarten, childish and at best potentially dangerous. Igbo investment in Lagos cannot be physically moved to South East Nigeria.

During the civil war from 1967 to 1970 Port harcourt people who are our brothers stole Igbo property and called it abandoned property. May it never happen again in Nigeria.

theyorubatimes.com/how-revisionis…

How revisionists seek to destroy Lagos History as Yoruba civilisation

By Ogboni High Chief Priest Dr Oladoyin Odebowale

Here Odewale replies Engr Joe Igbokwe's treatise in Lagos

Joe Igbokwe , it has never ceased to amaze me reading revisionism being presented as historical facts. The Lagos that was designated as the Federal Capital Territory was Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lagos Island, Ebute Meta, Surulere and Yaba. The defunct Western Region started from Jibowu. Mushin, Agege, Maryland, Onigbongbo, Apapa, Badagry, Isolo and Amuwo Odofin all belonged to the old Western Region. Ikeja was the acronym for Ikorodu-Epe Joint Administration. Ikorodu, Epe, Ibefun, Igbogbo, Simawa, Imota, Agbowa, Ikosi, Ketu, Alapere all belong to the people of Remo. Mushin, Agege, Alimosho and Abule Egba belong to the Egba people. Isolo, Badagry(Agbadarigi), Ijegun, Ijora, Amukoko, Badia, Isale Eko, among others, belong to the Awori. They are all parts of Lagos State now.

General Gowon created the confusion to weaken the agitation for an independent State of Biafra in May, 1967. Major General Aguiyi Ironsi had promulgated Decree No 34 of 1966, the Unification Decree, to abolish the Regions. He was also advised to harmonise the civil service, thus destroying the Western Region's civil service that was reputed as the best.

Those decisions killed him and led to the civil war. Gowon, working for Murtala Mohammed and the Fulani oligarchy, consolidated on the treason committed by Ironsi and his cohorts against Nigeria. The commanding heights of our economy in the Western Region were appropriated in the name of the fraudulent One Nigeria. Our farm settlements were disabled. Our textile industries were sold to cement merchants by the military leadership acting as proxies for the Fulani expansionists. Our people became emasculated.

Lokoja had once served as the seat of the colonial government. Calabar also played that role. Why is it Lagos that should lose her indigenous identity on account of her former status?

Ibadan was the political capital of the old Western Region. The plan was solid. We had our industrial estates for real development scattered all over the space. Most of the industries in Ikeja, Oregun, Ilupeju and Apapa had the imprimatur of reasoned governance. We did not allow indiscriminate dumping of refuse on us under the guise of importation.

We had our housing estates. Bodija Housing Estate was the first in Nigeria. We had our Cocoa House, the tallest in West Africa at that time. It was our money. No Igbo had any investment there. Adeola Odutola and Jimoh Odutola were real industrialists. They produced tyres locally at Oke Ado in Ibadan. We had our paper mill. We had plantations. There was Igbeti marble industry in Oyo.

There was Wires and Cables industry in Ikeja. Red Brick industry was at Oregun. We had huge investments in Solel Boneh and Taylor Woodrow for construction. We used them to build University of Ife, the most beautiful campus on the African Continent, and Liberty Stadium, the best in Africa, where Dick Tiger fought for a World Boxing title. It was our Cocoa money. We had the WNTV, the first television station on the Continent of Africa. It was established with our Cocoa revenue too. Obasanjo and his cohorts turned it to NTA.

There was the WNBC which became Radio Nigeria due to the brazen conversion of our patrimony. University of Ife was also stolen from us by the military. We had hope. Oluwalogbon Motors, Doyin Motors, among others, operated on our land. Ladipo used to be our Palm Avenue. It was in Western Region. Alaba was in Western Region. Ajegunle was in Western Region. We did not invite anyone from his village to settle among us. We embraced them still, when they came. Our economy did not depend on proceeds from drugs, human trafficking, armed robbery, kidnapping, politics and the exploitation of the peoples of the South South.

The fraud introduced by Ironsi and Ojukwu, and adopted by Gowon, ensured that development is now measured in terms of the quantum of proceeds from oil, narcotics and politics laundered to purchase the properties of a people laid prostrate by the combined onslaught from the Sahel and the forests.

Juli Pharmacy became a Plc. It is struggling to survive now due to the criminal activities of fake drug merchants in the South West. Alabukun was produced by Chief Odulate, the father of the first female SAN in Nigeria, Chief Folake Solanke. Importers of tramadol and other substances from Asia have pushed Alabukun out of the markets on our lands. They are killing our people in a manner akin to genocide through fake drugs and beverages. They use the blood money to buy up the places rendered desolate with the support of the fraudulent 1999 Constitution, as amended, an offshoot of Ironsi's Decree 34. Hypocrites continue to concentrate on the murderous activities of the so called Fulani herdsmen, who have been less pretentious.

We must be able to differentiate the Lagos Colony of 1851 from the Lagos of 1900 and 1914. The Lagos of 1951 is also different from the Lagos State, one of the contraptions created by fiat in 1967.

It disingenuous to pretend not to know some of these facts. It is this terrible mindset which predisposes some ungrateful denizens of the forests to designate our ancestral lands as belonging to no one. We have never coveted what belongs to others. No property belonging to the Igbo was seized by us during the civil war. Those who returned received all that was due to them. Ojukwu's father had properties in Lagos.

The Federal Government confiscated them for obvious reasons. He later took them to court and won. The Igbo people lost, immensely, in the South South due to their hostility against those people.

We are not aware of any compensation paid to the Awori, Remo, Ijebu and Egba owners of the space delineated and decreed to be Lagos State after the forceful take over. The industry of real merchants, industrialists and farmers built the old Western Region. It was the sweat of our fathers that others wanted to steal from us. They planned a coup after they lost the 1965 general elections and became the minority in the Parliament.

The alliance, which Zik and others refused in 1959, became important to them after they had put Awo in prison successfully. The coup failed and the war began. Ojukwu wanted Lagos. We were the focus of attack, not the North. They came as close as Ore before they were routed. They dropped a bomb at Casino afterwards.

Nobody is apologising for the incessant insults heaped on our people daily by uncouth, ill-mannered criminals who have failed to develop their backward villages.

The latest, after the invasion of our land, is the aggressive attempt to impose on us political leadership through sheer mischief and arrogance, depending on our hospitable disposition which has allowed uncontrolled influx of oriental rustics. This same attitude is replicated in all our states but not the Northern parts of the country. It is an insult to suggest, even remotely, that economic refugees, supported by the fraudulent political structure designed to expropriate our patrimony, came to invest on lands. It smacks of either "arrogance of ignorance" or deliberate mischief masked as fair-mindedness, for those, whose unfolding agenda point at a pernicious scheme to dispossess us of our patrimony, while presenting themselves as the victims. There will be a backlash very soon.

Below is the Essay by Engr Joe Igbokwe which prompted the above response

What I am reading here frightens me. May be we did not know that Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 86 yrs and Nigerians invested here before the capital was moved to Abuja in 1990. All the federal assets were left here . No buildings , roads , bridges, markets, offices etc were moved to Abuja. I have been here for more than 40 yrs and I once sited some documents on how those properties were shared and some sold.

Today Lagos growth in infrastructure, economy, real estate, commerce, industry, transport, internal revenue can be attributed to the obvious and painful truth that Lagos was the capital of Nigeria for 86 years and every Nigerian East , West , North or South invested her. Let me ask this question: why is Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Ekiti, Osun not like Lagos? Today the growth of Lagos is filtering into Ogun, Oyo and even Ondo. Drive from Kara bridge Lagos to Shagamu interchange, look left and right and see what is happening there in terms investments. Ka fi suru na!!!

Today Nigerians are investing heavily in the FCT and if tomorrow the capital is moved to any other part of Nigeria FCT citizens that were paid heavy compensations and relocated by the late Justice Akinola Aguda will come and be claiming FCT. Make we de fear God now!

Today in Nigeria Igbo people do not have a quarter of what they have in Lagos and Abuja in Igboland and yet they do no care because we believe in the proverb: Ebe Onye bi ka Ona Awachi( wherever you leave take it as your home)

All these nonsensical effusions I see everyday especially in Lagos frighten me to the marrows, it is
Kindergarten, childish and at best potentially dangerous. Igbo investment in Lagos cannot be physically moved to South East Nigeria.

During the civil war from 1967 to 1970 Port harcourt people who are our brothers stole Igbo property and called it abandoned property. May it never happen again in Nigeria.

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YourKarma:
E shock me o. why are they complaining when this man is doing the same thing tinubu does?

You can now vent because it is in your favor. If it does not work out, you and your people will come and accuse us of being tribalistic. But remember, this is Yoruba State. Do not worry.
You will learn basic politics from Yoruba people in this 2027 election

Dalohad:
The usual bitter ethnic politics that is stock in trade of the bulabanns.

Tell me about other tribes that hold political office in your state.

Gbaja is the best candidate among all of them

EnEnPeecee:
2027 elections is a battle to finish. If we miss Obi again then, it is finished. No hope for the country and the citizens. Nigerians still have a last chance to get it right again.

Let's unite behind Obi and vote him in. I am from benue state and i urge all Nigerians to put aside tribe, religion, ethnicity and region for the sake of our country. It is time to sack tinubu and APC.

Vote mr Peter Obi for president 2027

Let me ask you one question: after two terms as governor of Anambra State, do the Anambra people miss Obi Peter? The answer is No....so, since his people never missed him, Nigeria as a whole cannot miss him...
Ojukwu his godfather regretted for imposing him on the people of Anambra State

Now , I now Nigeria is stupid and fools ....now they know that all these appointments needs to be sectionalize and put into segments just because , they know some mighty people will be affected but while can you sectionalize the entire country and strip the president power over regions or State ....all these is confusion ...these people are applying parliamentary system technique in a unitary government called Nigeria .....Nigeria is indeed confused.....

Landlord should be requesting for mental stability certification before renting out their property for tenants .....I don't think the lady is normal