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This man again!

lawrenzi:
FTC....

Dedicating this to me and my sister

Are you sure she is your sister? Don't come here another day to tell us that Nairalander snatched your wife.

The holdup it caused was terrible.

ettybaba:
Maypp he live long and continue to fresh in Kuje.

Amen

This is a welcomed idea. At least it will encourage accountability in spending of funds set aside for specific projects

onnenka:
Only Yoruba muslims will fall for her stupid diversionary tactics

Tribalism go kill you.

ahmg001:
.sum pipu re just ignorant.so turkey became a xtian state den tru evangelism abi? Was is nt tru conquest.it was d same conquest dt made most Turks xtianz den dt still mk dem to loose it to anoda religion. Am sure u want to enlighten me how chatolism spread to Latin America. FYI,in dos daes religion,culture were spread tru conquest and land grabbing whc both Islam and xtianity re guilty of

Please enlighten them. Many people misunderstood Turkey history

........this is serious ooo

May God help us

I wish them good luck as they play final match today

lawrenzi:
I am soo happy for them...

These are the areas that are not affected by the fire tragedy.

MOREMI AJASORO: HEROINE OF LIBERTY

The Olugbo of Ugbo kingdom in Ilaje area of Ondo State, Oba Obateru Akinruntan has of recent been distorting history and fanning the ember of enmity among the Yoruba Obas and the Yoruba nation at large. Sadly, the same Olugbo is the chairman of an amorphous body that goes by the name ‘Yoruba Obas Committee on Peace and Reconciliation’.
The Olugbo has repeatedly referred to Moremi as a traitor against her widely acclaimed tag as a heroine of liberty. I have taken it upon myself to put the record straight and lay same bare before the court of public opinion to judge whether Moremi was a traitor as Oba Akinruntan claimed or a heroine as the world has come to accept her. The abridged history of Moremi will suffice here.
Moremi Omowumi Ayoka Okin, was born in Offa as a princess (and this is my locus standi). She grew up in Offa to become a ravishingly beautiful young lady who later got married to Ooni Oranmiyan of Ile Ife. As a result of her beauty and astuteness, she soon became the Aayo (Queen Consort) of Ooni Oranmiyan and the only one who had his ears on vital issues about the kingdom.
During her stay in Ile-Ife, the ancient city was incessantly raided by a group of warriors who were believed to be from the outer space. This was as a result of their weird dressing as they were usually cladded in dried raffia fronds from head to toes. On each occasion, these warriors carted away food items, materials, and humans as slaves. These unrelenting raids on the ancestral home of the Yoruba was giving King Oranmiyan (himself a renowned warrior) a grave concern. Queen Moremi noticed this mood swing of her husband and asked him why he was brooding endlessly of recent. King Oranmiyan told her it was these mysterious raiders that were giving him serious concern. Queen Moremi instantly decided to do all within her power to restore her husband’s happy mood.
She went to consult the goddess of River Esinmirin (still in Ile-Ife) and made a vow that if she could be granted the power to overcome the mysterious invaders, she was ready to sacrifice anything the goddess of Esinmirin demanded. The goddess told her to allow herself to be captured when next the invaders come around. As instructed, on the next invasion by the mysterious invaders, Moremi unlike the rest of the inhabitants deliberately allowed herself to be captured by the invaders and taken as a slave to their place which turned out to be Ugbo (the home of Oba Akinruntan).
Upon setting his eyes on the war booties, the then reigning Olugbo of Ugbo could not take his eyes off the paragon of beauty that was Moremi. He subsequently decreed that she be handed over to him as a wife. Moremi became the Olugbo’s wife and soon got elevated as the Queen Consort in the Olugbo’s palace. During a moment of passion, Moremi craftily told the Olugbo that she was enjoying everything about her new home except the dreadful warriors especially the way they dressed. The lecherous Olugbo told Moremi that the warriors were merely cladded in dried raffia fronds which were highly combustible.
After this all important disclosure, Moremi surreptitiously plotted her escape back to Ile-Ife. She immediately revealed the secret to her original husband, Oranmiyan and some elders of Ile-Ife. The entire Ile-Ife folks then mobilised and strategized against the next invasion of the marauders who were now known to be coming from Ugbo land. As envisaged, the Ugbo invaders came calling again in their usual raffia fronds attire and Moremi leading the Ile-Ife people carried firebrands made of Oguso (a highly combustible by-product of palm kennel). The Ugbo warriors were attacked and quite a number of them were burnt to death. The remnants that escaped to Ugbo land narrated their experience of the unprecedented defeat and the fact that it was the missing queen of Olugbo that led the counter-attack. In any case, that was the end of the Ugbo invasion of Ile-Ife.
The Ugbo people were devastated on the number of casualty suffered and the fact that their King must have revealed their secret to his consort. It was then decreed that it has become a taboo for any Ugbo man to marry any fair complexion lady as a result of the Moremi experience with the Olugbo.
Back in Ile-Ife, while the euphoria of the defeat of the Ugbo invaders was still going on, the goddess of Esinmirin demanded that Moremi should fulfil her vow as made before embarking on the mission to Ugbo land. Moremi offered animals, foods, and other items but Esinmirin rejected all. The only sacrifice Esinmirin wanted was Moremi only child and son Ela Oluorogbo. She eventually sacrificed him to the Esinmirin goddess in fulfilment of her vow. In appreciation, the entire Ile-Ife promised to be her children and fill the gap of the sacrificed Ela Oluorogbo.
However, the other queens in the palace mocked Moremi as being childless to spite her for taking much of their husband’s attention. In anger, Moremi came to Offa to meet her father who was the reigning Olofa then. She got to Offa at dusk when the Olofa had retired and could no longer receive visitors to the palace. The guards could not recognise her (apparently due to her disguise to escape from Ile-Ife palace) and instructed her to wait at the palace gate till dawn when the Olofa would see her. She insisted on entering the palace but the guards stood their grounds. In frustration, she walked few meters away from the palace gate and put her luggage beneath the Araba tree.
By the morning of the following day, the Olofa was informed of the strange female visitor that came the previous night and the king asked that she should be brought before him. However, when the guards went to fetch the visitor, Moremi could not be found. Only her luggage was brought before Kabiesi and he instantly recognised them to be Moremi’s own. The spot where she left her luggage was where the original Moremi’s house was erected directly opposite the Olofa’s Palace.
Moremi was never seen again in Offa or at Ile-Ife. The probability of her disappearance was that she eventually ended up with her beloved son Ela Oluorogbo in the same River Esinmirin. To commemorate her heroic actions, she is celebrated annually in Offa as ONIMOKA and three months after in Ile-Ife as EDI where the people carry the symbolic firebrand.
Having taken readers through this abridged historical excursion, can the role of Moremi be tagged as that of a traitor or a heroine? In the first place, she allowed herself to be captured solely to liberate her people which she achieved. An apt but sad similitude is this – if the federal government of Nigeria could get a lady to ‘marry’ Abubakar Shekau today and that leads to some tactical information to wipe out the remnants of the Boko Haram insurgents, would such a lady be a villain or a heroine? I leave the readers to form their opinion on this.

References:
History of the Yorubas by Rev Johnson - page 147
History of Offa by Rev Olafimihan page 104
The Nigeria Review published on 18th October 1947 on page 7.

It is always good to use ones senses and get the fact before one comment in anything that Fayose write. A lots of his write up are not facts but misleading.
When did the president increase PAYE tax? It is unfortunate that the governor did not know that Paye tax can only be amended subject to the approval from the house. So I asked which house debate and approved the increase in Paye tax?
Please for those of you that are blinding following Gov Fayose's statements, try to think for yourself otherwise you will be infected with his ignorance.
Inaddition, the issue of N65 charges on every withdrawal is an obvious misstatement and lie from gov Fayose.

#changebeginswithme! We shall get there

Abbeyme:
I hope there are no doubting Thomases to this!!!!

I have colleagues in my workplace that won houses (or do I call it flats) at Surulere and at Abattoir.

They were even given a set of cooking gas upon the payment of their balance self.

Good one from LASG.

But its somewhat expensive to the common man, except this is for the medium income folks.

Pls do you have idea of the total cost, initial deposit and instalment payments

JazakAllahu Khairan

May the peace and blessing of Almighty Allah be showered on our beloved Prophet Muhammad, his households, companions and all those who follow his message till eternity. Amin

Alhadulillah. Jazakallahu -Khairan

I commends the efforts of Mr Fowler. However, in my opinion as a tax expert, there are many factors that are responsible for the upsurge in the internally generated revenue in the month of June 2016. The fact is that most companies have 31 Dec has their financial year end, the month of June is the deadline for most companies to filing their returns, failure to file the returns beyond June 2016 means that they are filing late and it will attract penalty for late filing.
Also there is possibility to have high internally generated revenue in the month of July and August for those companies that works towards June but eventually failed to meet the deadline date but it is very doubtful to have such high in the remaining months of this year.

When the negotiation with Boko Haram failed, the Nigerian armed forces are there to eliminate them. It is not that the Govt is afraid to face the so called militant groups but the Nigeria govt is strategically preparing his case before the international law so that it can claimed that it has tried all the means to reach dialogue with the militants but they refused to embrace dialogue.

I used to laugh when I see this group of people threatening the peace of this country because of the ammunition they claimed to have. Can they have ammunition more than Nigeria Govt? They better wise up now and embrace dialogue before it is too late.

The pathetic aspect of it is that if the govt looses its armed forces the innocents will also suffer.

I hope you are now seeing what El-Rufai was trying to prevent that made him interfered in the issue before he was tagged to have hidden agenda in his interference.

This is an highly welcomed idea. If it is properly implimented, it will go along way to tackle problem of Boko Haram insurgency in the country

matrixme:
El-rufai should watch his back these few days. Even if you don't believe in God, you must be careful not to offend Him. There are real prophets and there are charlatans. This was someone that predicted that we would all be putting so much pressure on Buhari when he enters and it's happening.
He also predicted Ocholi' s death among others. Not like those that predict football scores, some choose their words more carefully so we all have to beware.
What if he truly dies tomorrow, wouldn't it be seen as a direct consequence to his actions?

It is the likes of you who do not have confidence in God that those so called men of God collect all your hard earned money in the name of prophecy and miracle. Most of these so called men of God are deceiving us, we know the way it works but it has consequence......... Just believe in your God,whorship Him and have posibility mind.

It is pathetic that most people taking up criticising the law were christians. Suprisingly all reasonable examples that the governor mentioned are mostly concerned from Islam side. Infact I expected the muslims to be in forefront againt the Law. This shows that many people did not bother to read through the law but because governor is a muslim, they believe that the law will be against christians. It is high time we left ethnicity and religion difference if we want peace to reign this nation.

kinibigdeal:
Egypt 2-0 Nigeria (half time)

May God forbid

Translation Please

Jazakallahu khairan. I felt that giving Zakat openingly can be of help to remind and encourage others to pay their Zakat.

May God deliver the people of Rivers state from evil people that are disturbing the peace of the state.

True talk sir

Thanks for clarification sir.