₦airaland Forum

DaChosenOne:
I think Yoruba people have more in common with Igbos and other Coastal West Africans than Sahelian West Africans like Hausa. Yoruba and Igbo are both intelligent and successful groups. In and outside of Nigeria.

Darammliveth:
You're a fool. There's nothing like Yoruba Muslim.

Seun:
According to Wilson Erumebor, a senior economist at NESG, "the kind of diversification that Nigeria needs is one that increases the actual value of both the oil and the non-oil sectors, but where that of the non-oil sector rises rapidly & faster than that of the oil sector"

In an article titled "Economic Diversification In Nigeria. Why Context Matters" he wrote:


https://www.wilsonrume.com/2023/02/16/economic-diversification-in-nigeria-why-context-matters/

So we need to first maximize our oil (& gas) production & then reinvest the revenue from that into other sectors of the economy that can grow quickly & generate high returns. Yes, we all want non-oil revenues to grow, but oil (& gas) revenues must also continue to grow.

richidinho:
I mean why will Igbo’s suffer because NOI refused to pose for a picture with BAT?

Why?

Why?

buharitill2023:
EMBRACING TINUBU'S LAGOS ECONOMIC ROADMAP, NIGERIANS, HOPE HAS COME.

By Daniel A. Noah Osa-Ogbegie, Esq.



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Daniel Aroren Noah Osa-Ogbegie writes from Benin City.
26th March, 2023.

byteem:
a rascal is a mean, unprincipled, or dishonest person. : So the poster proudly identifies as a criminal and justifies the criminal antecedents of touts . Just to score cheap points for their foot soldiers .

This. need to legalize criminality and rascality in the name of political gain will not end well.. shame.. ask

EquitableTech:
THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

During the 30 month long Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, Col Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the sessesionist leader and Biafran war lord, carried out an air attack on Lagos. The attack on Lagos was unnecessary and it was that incident that drew the Yoruba into what was essentially a war between the southeastern Igbos and Northern hausa/fulani.

Ojukwu knew for certain that the Yorùbá had no stomach then for war, and also was not going to allow any assault on the East from the West. The key Yoruba Generals, after trying their best to mediate on both sides, and after Col Musa Yar'Adua a fulani military officer shot Col Benjamin Adekunle a Yoruba military officer without any consequences, have told General Yakubu Gowon the military head of state, to fight his own war.

The Igbos were winning at the initial stages of the East-North war. The East had taken all what the Federal Government had in the eastern Nigeria and destroyed them. They had defeated all the Generals from the North completely, and all Ojukwu needed to do was shift from a defensive mode to attack against the North, and he would have gained ground, shifted the battle ground to the North proper and put the civilians under pressure, forcing Gowon to negotiate the exit of the East from Nigeria. But that was not what he did. He instead saw it as an opportunity for the Igbos to conquer the whole south, expand territory and impose their rule on the Yorùbá. Even though Yorubaland nurtured Ojukwu as it nurtured many frontline Igbos including Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chinua Achebe and most of the Igbo leadership, he repaid us with contempt.

As a very senior member and commanding officer of the Nigerian Army, and indeed military governor of the then Eastern region, he knew the Yorùbá's had no weapons base, complement of the British that deliberately and strategically diverted all the military arsenal to Kaduna in the North and left the West completely unprotected from attacks by the other tribes, because the British feared the Yorùbá's more. Ojukwu knew this, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo also alluded to this at their last meeting in Onitsha (Awolowo was making a last- ditched effort to persuade Ojukwu to rescind his declaration of secession and not go to war) - a conversation that was secretly recorded and the tape transcribed. So why was it that it was the Yorùbá's the Igbo leadership chose to attack instead of pursuing the hausa/Fulanis that attacked them. The answer can be deduced from Ojukwu' s letter to Col Banjo (a Yoruba military officer trapped in the East and who became Ojukwu's second in command) promising to make him the governor of the southwest and answerable to him.

But Ojukwu was foolish, his contempt for the Yorùbá's made him forget our tenacity when threatened.

Col Benjamin Adekunle rose up and formed a new Fighting Battalion made up of Yoruba soldiers and called the 3rd Marine Commando with the approval of Gowon and the North. Gowon was powerless, already facing certain defeat. The Yorùbá's taxed themselves and bought new weapons for the new Battalion but the weapons were not purchased from the British. Adekunle's wife and children were caught on the battle frontline by the the sudden attack by Biafra. Incidentally, Adekunle was the one who rescued most of the experienced Igbo fighting men from the North and feom certain annihilation, yet Ojukwu went after Adekunle's family in Warri.

At that time, the Yorùbá's have had a long historical relationship with the Calabars than the Igbos. There was a Yoruba town in Calabar then, so Adekunle sneaked to Calabar and formed the second front made of south south fighters who had already been rubbished by the Igbos when they thought they would win the war. It was those East-West assaults on Biafra that led to the Biafran demise. Adekunle sunk Ojukwu and Biafra. He attacked their Western front which was already at Ore and advancing towards Lagos (after overrunning Benin with the military Governor Col David Ejoor escaping capture on bicycle) with speed boats operated by Ijaw boys that he recruited for that purpose, deterring the Biafran advancement, forcing them to retreat back to Benin crushing them, and continued to move them to Asaba and across River Niger back to the East. Ojukwu set up defenses across river Niger expecting Adekunle to follow and fall into a trap, but he didn't. Instead, he went after the Biafran Navy making sure that the Igbos will never threaten the Yorùbá's again from the sea.

Gowon was furious that Adekunle did not pursue Biafra to crush then completely, so he brought Col Murtala Mohammed to Benin to do the job. However, Murtala was a disaster. Apart from sacking the Central Bank and stealing all the money, he was a resounding failure. He was defeated repeatedly by the Biafran army over, destroying the lives of many soldiers. Yoruba soldiers refused to fight with him totally.
Meanwhile Adekunle continued his foray and captured Bonny, sacked Port Harcourt and then went after the Biafran stronghold in Owerri. He attacked Owerri both from Portharcourt and Calabar, in a fierce inch by inch engagement. The Igbos best fighting men and women and their officers were in Owerri and that battle was the bloodiest.

When Adekunle conquered Owerri, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, and the war would be over.

The story of the war was documented by foreign press, expecially Military Press, who came to witness the incredible fighting skills and strategies displayed in Portharcourt and Owerri. Adekunle had already made International news and reputation as one of the best warrior-generals of modern warfare, and the best to emerge from Africa. Every news outlets wanted to interview and document his troops. He had the best officers Nigeria ever produced, trained by him. They led their forces from the front and created magic that brought the whole world press to the Nigeria battle field.

Gowon did not defeat Biafra, the Fulanis did not defeat Biafra, it was the Biafra leadership disrespect and contempt for the Yoruba people and their misreading and misunderstanding of our character and attitude that defeated Biafra.

Yes, towards the end of the war, it was also the Yorubas that came up with the reconciliation plan, and the famous phrase of "no winner, no vanquished". The Yorùbá of Lagos who owned the land and developed Surulere were made to give up their ownership of those buildings up to Lawanson to resettle the Igbos. Primary and secondary schools in Lagos were expanded to create spaces and accommodate the resettled Igbos, depriving the Yorùbá's in the process. The people were not initially happy, but the leadership went around to create the awareness that the Igbos were our cousins and that the war was a family feud and over. That is the nature of the Yoruba - compassionate, accommodating, fair-minded, generous, always putting themselves in the position of others. We do not take what does not belong to us and we have no expansionist tendencies. We will not crowd the space of others or attempt to take it. We are a fulfilled and contented people. We will rather engage in dialogue and reasoning, embrace peace than engage in strife. Other tribes take this for timidity and fear. No, far from it. The events after the annulled June 12 elections of 1993 and the frontal and pivotal role of the Yoruba have proved otherwise. We are a painstaking amd resilient people, who will not shy away from a war but will rather fight with superior intellect, well thought-out strategy and persistence. That approach brought back the Yoruba into the mainstream of Nigerian politics and frontline player in our national life. Not the in-your-face, brazen and aggressive approach of the Igbos that have consistently made other ethnic nationalities to be wary of them and view them with suspicion.

But look at the version of history that the Igbos feed their own children! Still filled with contempt against the Yorùbá's and purposefully calculated lies just like before the war. Now Igbos claim that Lagos is not only a no-man's land but that they actually own it. What a double talk, what a cheeky audacity! They have expanded their claim to include Ibadan, that they built everything in Yoruba land. That is what they teach their children.

But can you blame them? What are the stories we the Yorùbá are telling our children especially those that were born after the Biafran War, the so called Gen Y and Gen Z? The starry-eyed one-way idealists, with no knowledge of the history and antecedents of their ethnic nation, whose world view and actions are controlled and shaped by the social media? Do your children know the truth about events in your lives when you were young? Have we not failed in our individual and collective responsibility? History is no longer taught in our schools one of the ways to make us ignorant of events while others are rewriting the narratives. The Igbos and indeed other ethnic nationalities and foreigners are welcomed in our land but they must know their limits. They do not and cannot have the same right as the indigenes. Unless by conquest or first settlement you cannot claim to be the indigenous owner of land. Equity dictates that what you cannot give to others you cannot expect others to give to you. It is common knowledge that non-indigenes cannot own land anywhere in Igboland. Not even leasehold. They are fierce and violent about this. How can they now come to another man's land and claim ownership? They are migrants pure and simple.

What did you tell your children? Do they know these truths? Let us begin to tell the true stories to our children.

WE OWE THEM THAT MUCH

Exmilitant:
Hey, before you hammar my people, that's an Igbo behind that moniker!

NtoAkwaIbom:
Why can't you igbos be proud of your hate ?
All your post are all glorifying igbos and their deeds while denigrating every other tribes.
Yet your moniker is ogoni militant.

You guys will sow hate and discord and wen they ripen and turn to haunt you guys, you guys claim victim.
Despicable lot

Johnjustice:
Since the inception of HURIWA, they only talk on or support Ipob, obidient and anything that has to do with Biafra, they have never advocated for anyone or ordinary Nigerians before. This is an expose.

DesChyko:
I have this friend, Yunusa. He's an Omo Ale; the newly coined word by anti-Peter Obi Yorubas for any Yoruba who is vocal about their disdain for Tinubu's potential emergence and APC-misrule, and how Peter Obi represents the opposite of all of that (take special note of 'who is vocal'). To be honest, he's more vocal and determined about Peter Obi's ascension than I am on the streets.

His PU is at a market where his aged mother is one of the recognized market leaders. He also has some of his family elders having stakes in the market too. In his opinion, his mother has been brainwashed to be pro-APC because they (himself inclusive) we're threatened that their market will be shut down if they fail to deliver for APC. And they believed it because another market at Agboju was shut down when they failed to comply with APC-directives over campaigns and the likes and they now share market space with them.

Fast forward to Feb 25; he spent the night before at their market store so he doesn't have to start travelling down there in the morning to vote. As usual, there was a family meeting where they were all asked to vote for APC (for a number of reasons including the fact that they may lose the market). But he went on to vote for LP for Presidential and APC for the other 2 slots. As they reconvened after voting, he was vocal about how he voted and the family members descended on him with verbal assaults, including 'Omo ale'. He was incensed that incident and had to leave the scene ASAP because these are elderly people he didn't want to insult.

He decided not to go for the Guber polls despite pressure from the family through his mother as they sought to make their numbers count. Despite all promises of entreaties, he turned it down, pegging it on their behaviour last time when he came to exercise his civic rights. So only his mother went to vote. And this is where it gets interesting.

We linked up on Sunday after the elections and he told me how and why he didn't go after I berated him for not exercising his civic right, especially as myself and others who were not Yorubas were prevented from voting by thugs. Luckily, his mother was there to recount how the voting experience was and that in itself tells a tell of scapegoating.

According to her, all other tribes bar known Yorubas in the locality were prevented from voting (as it was in many PUs across Lagos). The puzzling thing was when the ballot papers were counted, APC tied with LP for the Guber poll in that PU. There was a lot of noise and threats over who is betraying who but in the end, they had to submit it like that rather than annul all their efforts.

Which brings us to the false tribal narrative been spread around that Igbos (other non-Yoruba tribes inclusive) wants to take over Lagos. Such an election was a litmus test which proved that Yorubas as much as every other tribe were implicit in how the results turned out. This has always been my belief especially as I know a good number of Omo Ales (woke Yorubas in English) who are OBIdients.

I'd advise you who feel pressured by that false narrative to rest easy. They also have opponents who are from within and having the majority of the support of other tribes in the same boat is what scared them into thuggery. But for how long will they keep the false narrative flying? Keep calm and watch the tape. It'll be an interesting ride.

Mraphel:
LEAVE SOUTHWEST, LEAVE LAGOS STATE NEWS FOR THE YORUBAS focus your scope in the south east where elections were rigged, underage votes, politicians killed, let Peter Obi stopped challenges of South eastern part in trafficking, prostitution, drug smuggling, fake products and intolerance by Igbo against most tribe before thinking of becoming Nigeria president.

However, he added that while the President did not refer to anyone specifically as a rascal, whoever that would wants to appropriate the name of a rascal to himself is welcome.

THE Presidency yesterday distanced President Goodluck Jonathan from suggestions that he called names when he said that the “the south west is too important to be left in the hands of rascals”.

Fielding questions from State House Correspondents, Presidential Spokesman, Mr Ima Niboro, stated that “at no time did the President ascribed the rascal he mentioned to anyone”.

However, he added that while the President did not refer to anyone specifically as a rascal, whoever that would wants to appropriate the name of a rascal to himself is welcome.

He said: “Please note that the president didn’t call any names when he said the south west is too important to be left in the hands of rascals”.

According to him, “so any one who wants to appropriate the name to himself is welcome to do so”.

President Jonathan had on Tuesday while flagging-off his presidential campaign in the South-West geo-political zone, in Ibadan, declared that the south West is too educated to be left in the hands of rascals to lead come April 2011, insisting that the people must vote for credible leaders in the next election.

Goodmarlian:
All the parties that participated in the just concluded 2023 elections are yet to recogbize the candidate announced by candidate announced by the electoral body as the winner,and doesnt look like its gonna happen anytime soon they are all ready to fight dirty both the announced winner and the aggrieved parties and their loyalists are ready for the worst.
As it stands dont be diecieved may 29 will full blown chaos,trust me its going to be a day never to be forgotten in Nigerias history, obidients,atikulates will come out en-mass to protest that day this will trigger a lot of unrest that day.
lets hope it doesnt escalate into what we cannot control i hope they domt resort to arms Nigerians are angry now.

sukkot:
Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth ( lost election ) he persecuted the woman ( Yoruba nation ) who gave birth to the male child ( tinubu ). So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood ( the flood includes Lagos is no mans land, trying to impose GRV, lots of media and online propaganda etc ). But the eArth helped the woman and the earth opened up its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth ( all the propaganda did not work and the lies ). And the dragon was enraged with the woman and he went to make wAr with the rest of her offspring ( endsars promax Armageddon is coming to naija courtesy of obedients). Brace up yall . It's about to get ugly

PJtech:
why are you dragging lagos with us

you must be an ungrateful visitor

presonto:
https://punchng.com/fec-approves-n454bn-for-kano-niger-republic-rail-others/

PJtech:
To my yoruba bethrens that supported the Obidient movement, hope you guy's have come to realize your mistake. The Obidient movement is not about politics in the first place (it's based on ethnicity and religion), it all started when Tinubu made known his ambition to become a president.
They supported Obi not because he's a better candidate than the other but because of thier bitter hatred for Tinubu.
Sowore that has been clamouring for restructuring, why are they not supporting him
Kwankwaso nko
Atiku nko

Well the Feb 25th election passed and Tinubu was declared president elect then they switch allegiance to GRV trying to impose thier son on lagosians... Thanks to the people of lagos who voted massively for HE Babajide Sanwo-olu too be re-elected for second term

Do you care to know what would have happened if they succeded in forcing thier choice on lagosians?

They'll be the one to install
the new Alaafin of Oyo
Ooni of Ife
Oba of lagos

Thank goodness we dodged a bullet in yoruba land. Eko oni baje

God bless Omoluabi
God bless Nigeria

Disclaimer: This thread do not depict tribalism, it's only aim to admonish our yoruba bethrens.

StreetFight:
If he is in his state of Origin, this would not have happened. State in your useless state

seguno2:
Please what is the sense of waiting for a more accountable government to come in? Why not WORK for a more accountable government to come in, and forever work to pressure them at the federal, state and local levels to implement not just a more transparent electoral system upgrade, but a more transparent governance system based on opposing ideological parties?

Is this not how the other races with longer noses are making their governments transparent for a better society, which Nigerians are praying and fasting to japa to