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category Business Development / Marketing / Sales
Specialization Business Development / Marketing / Sales , Accounting / Auditing
Industry Consulting
Job Type Full Time
Experience 2-3 year(s)
Qualification HND, Bachelor’s Degree
Location Lagos


Urgent vacancies via Staffline Consulting Ltd for candidates that resides in Ajah an its environs.

Role: Accountant (Male)
Role: Business Development Executives (Female)

Responsibilities For Accountant:

Document financial transactions by entering account information.
Recommends financial actions by analyzing accounting options.
Summarizes current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports.
Substantiates financial transactions by auditing documents.
Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
Secures financial information by completing data base backups.

Responsibilities For B.D.E:

To identify sales leads.
Pitch goods or services to new clients.
Maintain a good working relationship with new contacts.
Communicating new product developments to prospective clients.
Writing reports.
Location: Ajah, Lagos
Experience: 2 – 3 Years (both roles)
Qualification: Degree holder.

Method of Application

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https://etimesafrica./2016/12/19/multiple-vacancies-in-lagos-isalnd/

Merry Christmas! This will be on the lips of many Nigerians from this week. Christmas in Nigeria is a time of great joy when families get together and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. A period that Christians mark the birth of Jesus Christ and today a global event which has been so monetised that the essence of the celebration is being lost and eroded gradually. But, one thing we will admit is that Christmas and New Year period do come with this atmosphere of love that all and sundry enjoy, be it Christians, atheist or Muslim. The economic implications of Christmas in Nigeria are visible with the travelling of people to the countrysides for a reunion. This year’s Christmas in Nigeria has been downplayed, if wishes were horses, Nigerians would call for postponement of Christmas. As it stands , the festive mood is not lost but will be celebrated, albeit low-keyed.

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Will Nigerians celebrate this Christmas? A question that is on the lips of so many, Nigerian economy lately is not in the best form and has seen the worst recession in the last two decades, owing to the United States Dollar exchange rate for the Nigerian Naira, also coupled with the singular fact that the price of crude oil has fallen. These factors have made the Nigerian economy to be in tatters and citizens impoverished. Nigerians are noted to be one of the happiest people on earth and some have decided to take the situation as they come. Emeka Ibeawuchi, a businessman in the Ojo Alaba International market, had this to say “ Christmas is a period that we all go home, coming from the eastern part of Nigeria, it will be a thing of joy that I and my families travel to the village, for family reunions and possibly network. Though, business has been dull this time, compared to last year, there is nothing we can do bout it than hope for the better. But, I must travel home”

“I just love Christmas, but it is a pity that the economy is terrible, the cost of inflation is so high that I can’t even buy things for my family. My salary has been stagnant and am being owed some months, how an I find this Christmas interesting, it is so unfortunate, “Ibikunle Balogun said, a mother of three and works Lagos State.

A major recurring feature of the season is the hike of the prices of goods and services. Checks by eTimes revealed that, contrary to expectations, the prices of goods and services have remained relatively stable due to the hyperinflation that Nigerians have witnessed over the months. The cost of transportation is one of the few things that has been hiked. The average cost of travelling from Lagos to Onitsha which used to be around N4,500 has been pushed to around N5,000 – N7,000 depending on the brand and the bus company. Flight from Lagos to Enugu is around $70 – $80 USD which can be converted to N25,000(a less than hour flight) and the minimum wage of average Nigerian is N18,000 which is $57.15 a month. This is arrived using the official exchange rate .



The joy of Christmas will be truncated by the economic indices in the country, but as they say in the showbiz world” the show must go on” , Nigerians will try to be happy this period , with the strong traditional family system culture. Families will support each other. “ Left for me, I wouldn’t have travelled, but my mum wants to see me and my cousin will be using his car to travel so I will join him for a ride down the village. He is my cousin anyway, So he will oblige. Said Eunice Orjiakor, a beautician based in Lagos State.







https://etimesafrica./2016/12/19/nigerians-vow-to-celebrate-christmas-amid-economic-hardship/#more-3513

It doesn’t matters little if MMM goes under or even grows bigger. It is a pointer to our level of low as a people.
We complain about Nigeria from morning till night, Monday to Sunday, January to December. We want Nigeria to be good, but we have to address the right problems and these are, from what we have seen in recent years, are apparently NOT corruption (a stem and not the root), NO NOT leadership ( a branch quite a distance from the root), but is actually our VALUE SYSTEM as a people.


You will observe that it is the same people with these same twisted values who produce the same corrupt and inept leaders, and the same people keep reinventing newer levels of impunity and mind-boggling corruption.
While you are free to call out the foolish leaders and their acts of corruption, let us be free to call out the root of it all: our lack of understanding of value offering and value exchange!
For heaven’s sake, WHO makes money that is linked to ZERO productivity? ..and cares less where the money is coming from or whose loss will be his/her win?This mindset of anyhow profit is worse than the incompetence of your governor. The greed is well the same. The opportunities only have different names.

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The bank CEOs who profited from failed banks were dragged to courts and cursed out by most if not all of us. Little did we know millions of Nigerians were just waiting for their little opportunity to do the exact same. Enters MMM, and we all go to town with it.All these fellows knew there will be losses, but were content as long as they felt it wasn’t gonna be them losing.

It is foolishness and it is the root of our national predicament.
The ongoing mockery might feel insensitive, but let it sound a note to the average Nigerian that there is NO TRUE PROFIT without TRUE
PRODUCTIVITY.

And please don’t play the sympathy card of ‘situations and limited options’ …. it is the age long excuse people have given for thefts, for internet scams, for sms scams, 419er and all manner.

Same excuse some entity would give for helping himself to the valuables of accident victims before (if at all) he offers ‘help’.

Sadly help now has different meanings in our national lexicon, thanks to MMM.
This is way beyond profit vs loss, my money vs your money and such shallow banter, this for some of us is about the soul of our nation! And all that gloating has it’s place as a pointer to our sickeningly flawed values. Let those gloating gloat abeg. Let a bit of common sense standard be set… at least for another 2 decades.


https://etimesafrica./2016/12/14/nigerians-value-system-and-quest-for-profits-without-productivity/

When trouble comes, it comes in many ways at the same time. Nigerians are trying to contend with recession, economic and emotional depression, then inflation, to add the already troubled Nigerians woe MMM dropped a bombshell that they will not make any form of payment this Christmas period, suspending all forms of payment to January 2016, this has made sceptics of the scheme say, we warned them . Known as Ponzi scheme globally,it has been stated that this is MMM exit strategy.




“I doubt, because the panic that will set alone will make every old and new participant dread MMM even their current Xmas bonus will not be strong to bring in new customers. I am so screwed”exclaimed Chukzy, an investor.

MMM the new money making in town has broken the hearts of most of its adherents. Called a Ponzi scheme, condemned by the Nigerian Government and banned in many other countries such as Russian (Were the owner comes from ) to China and even Zimbabwe! Lately, Nigerians have been crying when the scheme made the people that were expecting payment that they will not be able t meet up with their own obligation of payment!

Coming at this time when Nigerians need the money for Eid, Christmas and New year celebration, the MMM struck. Apart from the recession and depression that the Nigerian economy is suffering,this has made many Nigerians (about 3 million) to key into the pyramid marketing scheme, which some people call Ponzi scheme. Gullibility and low investment ,financial literacy helped the MMM scheme find a fertile ground to germinate. Most Nigerians, wanted an easy way out of impending poverty and MMM provided the leeway.

Greed, gullibility and laziness have made many Nigerians throw caution to the winds ad invest their savings. Tempting with a 30% interest rate for any investment within a month! Nigerians couldn’t resist this mouth watering offer, to cap it all, the scheme converted the downliners to the marketers.

MMM-Nigeria.net is the site and upon our investigation, it is said in some quarters that it is not affiliated with MMM Europe or anywhere!



Nigerians have been warned of the fraudulent nature of the scheme and how it crashed in other countries, but, as the proverbial fly that refused to heed to advice,Nigerians jumped into MMM with such a frenzy . Foly Kaze , An online commenter and a watcher of the scheme, has this to say

“No one is asking them not to pause Mavro GH , but they should have come clean. I saw it on their twitter that there would be Give Help(GH) pause during the Christmas and new year period. Fee days ago, the admin announced that there won’t be any pause and encourage members to participate. They enticed people with 20usd bonus. And now the story has changed.The media are going to hijack everything. I believe they are very intelligent and know what will come their way. So they choose the media and Nigerians to do the killing by themselves. We will not blame them. People will point accusing finger to the media and government while they run away” he opined.



“Do you guys think that after this pause, more people are gonna put money in the MMM scheme? FYI, if it is ever unfrozen in January, withdrawals are going to be more than deposits and that is when the system collapses. All those commenting online now are desperately looking for how to pull their funds out.MMM is dead, the burial is in January,” said M.C Jay, an

In another view, some people are optimistic that by January that the scheme will come back and trust optimism, it gives hope. An investor in the scheme, who choose not to be mentioned said”MMM has just made the best decision. I advised one of the guiders to suggest MMM should be on standby from 10th of December. Like they read my mind. Very Good!!! Before we crash this thing with our Christmas mentality.”



According to the MMM twitter page, they encouraged Nigerians to continue investing(PH ) in their scheme. But on a closer investigation, there is no physical address of the scheme in Nigeria and where their operational base is can’t be ascertained.

According to online sources, Wikipedia states that, МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world’s largest Ponzi schemes of all time, in the 1990s. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The exact figures are not known even to the founders


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As the economy of Nigeria is evolving towards the non oil products. There need to diversify and look inwards. This is to enable Nigerians create employment in the non oil sector. With this in mind, a group of young Nigerians has come together to empower Nigerian youths with various soft skills which is various government purposes in Nigeria. Hannah,one of the organizer of this skill acquisition program has made sure that participants in this year’s skills acquisition program will always have this event to remember. It is a way of giving back to the society for little or nothing. In her words “We have decided to give back to Nigerian youths our experience which we garnered over the years for almost little or nothing. Knowledge is wealth and we have decided to pass on this knowledge to create wealth in our society.”She opined.
Tge priest phase of this will be in various states of the West of the country namely :Lagos, Ogun, Abuja, osun,ibadan,and edo state.

With the situation of the economy and the unending lies of the government about creating jobs,it is only wise not to continue waiting or believing!

Do you still work tirelessly for someone and earn little!


https://etimesafrica./2016/08/08/hannah-empowers-nigerian-youths-with-skills/

A giant stride has been made in the Nigerian ICT space with the collaboration of the foremost tech agencies in the country. The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, agreeing a joint committee to design a framework for collaboration to optimize development efforts for the telecommunications and ICT in the country.
This was a major outcome of the interactions between the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, when the Acting Director General of NITDA, Dr.Vincent Olagunju, and his team paid a courtesy visit to the NCC headquarters in Abuja at the weekend. Both agreed that a new era of interagency collaboration, especially within the sister ICT agencies would bring about desirable results, in line with global best practices.
The Joint committee, chaired by Dr. Agu Collins Agu, a director at NITDA, is expected to provide detailed areas of collaboration and terms of reference, which will be initialed by the two organizations in due course. Professor Danbatta said the initiative will prove to the world that sister agencies in our clime can work together in the interest of the nation., and charged the committee members to work assiduously to ensure that the objective of the collaboration is realized.
“We must concentrate on those things that we know that with the right investments and involvement of our human capital resources, we would realize things that we can show the world about the giant strides that are being made in this country, especially in the area of Information and Communications Technology”, he said.
According to Professor Danbatta, the agreement to collaborate is consistent with the mandates of the two entities to ensure pervasive penetration of ICTs.“But we have to be mindful of the fact that, the more you introduce services, the more your burden the infrastructure on ground. I hope that you (committee) will take cognizance of what you need to do to address the existing capacity of
infrastructure. What we are looking at is the progress we are steadily making by the day to ensure we reach the destination of what we call a networked society, a society that is e-driven, a
society that is ICT driven, as well as a society that will be relying on the power and leveraging on ICT to conduct all kinds of businesses”, he said. NITDA’s Acting DG, Dr. Olatunji, said that should be no
rivalry in ways that the tow organizations operate these days because it is all about common vision and common goals which are tied together for the future of our nation.“The Information Technology sub-sector, and the telecom sector, already work together now in their operations. If those of us at the helm of affairs that are driving the industry do not work together, we will not go far”, he said.
Dr. Olatunji said the disposition of the EVC of NCC, Prof Danbatta, in arriving at seting up this committee has demonstrated the quality of leadership he has brought to bear in the sector....https://etimesafrica./2016/08/08/ncc-nitda-collaborates-on-nigeras-ict-development/

KINGinVALHALLA:
[size=18pt]My.nd44 is also full of tribalism. One would expect an online moderator to hide his tribal bigotry fromm major social media platforms, but not this guy. See person when Seün put make he manage political section when the whole tribe for naija dey fight. Him case naim come worse pass.

This guy no get any ground to ban anybody for Nairaland at all at all. See as he dey rejoice for Twitter say Igbo and South-South dey fight. Smh.[/size]

Seen and seun should see this and it's affecting his reputation here

visita:
I'm Ebira. The only two words I've come across are Ozioma and Ejima. I can literally translate Ozioma to mean 'a child is born', dunno it's meaning in igbo, and ejima simply means twins, which I'm sure it's the same in igbo.

Ozioma is a name given to a child heralding good news
Ejima is twins

Brother I know but how come ebira has igbo elements in it, are they closer culturally to the igbos than other ethnic groups?

Pls explain what you mean by igbo elements for us

babyfaceafrica:
Wetin concern you...its his life,his throne and decision,if you don't like his decision,you know what to do....yeye

Yes it is his life
No it is not his throne
He is answerable to Yoruba people and don't expect them to watch this man mess the Yoruba culture up .


That's my own taking

HarkymTheOracle:
Oduduwa is d father of Yorubas.

#ProudlyYoruba
#GodBlessOduuaNation

Bros
Is oduduwa a Benin man
Did he came from heaven
Did he come from somewhere in north Africa


I love history ..pls lecture me sir

sweetgala:
Oga Ade abeg shut up. The ooni is currently parading himself up and down wanting to be seen and the current social media youth of Nigeria are lapping up his stupid utterances and actions one act at a time while clapping like deranged sea lions.

I can speak with authority on matters of how an ooni should carry himself after all I claim my heritage from the last great ooni anyone can speak of who never missed midweek service at st peters Anglican church iremo but kept his vows as the adimula and custodian of Yoruba heritage so well he was made first African governor of the western region.

Today we have an ooni who before he contested to be king never had a house in Ile Ife , could count on one hand the number of times he slept within Ife for one night. before 2015 when sijuwade died how many people knew who ogunwusi was within Ife.

The Ife and their spellbound Yoruba partners can enjoy their wealthy young swag king while it lasts but know this ,the seat of the ooni would never be same after this, the nature of selection is forever tainted by money and the rule books of who can contest is thrown wide open to twin princes and those from a maternal lineage.

By the way he is yet to display any measure of wealth ife oonis have become known for in the last 200 years. All the last 3 ooni before him were known for stupendous wealth before their ascension to the throne.

I feel jealous of the Edo kingdom

OP I'm waiting for him to come to olojo day and say he does not want to go to Oke mogun to perform his rites which is done in public.

I even heard a song and droning usually reserved for occult ritual precession and sang at dead of night so as to warn any errant person and praise the fearlessness of the ooni like the lion who would devour any lesser animal , anyone not intimated into the cult who see him at such a time would die of headache instantly, it was sung in the middle of the day casually in America .

He even visited obafemi Martin's in his house. .nawa


He even divorced his Yoruba wife to marry an Edo woman ...nawa


He is going around in limousines...kings are visited not been visited

But u still like his swag...always everywhere

01Mysticdon:
Lol, we the people of Onelga nd Rivers are not Igbos. Go and claim your own territory

But who cares....we just wanna dominate you economically this is

martineverest:
stop fooling urself,bro....th,they speak ibo,but they dont claim to be igbos.....most igbo speaking tribes in ss claim bini as their origin

Just the way Yoruba speaking tribes in middle belt claim to come from Kano
The Ilorin and kabba are not Yoruba

kaykay1980:
KABIYESI OLORUN OHH. PLS EVERY YORUBA SONS AND DAUGHTER SHOULD READ, COPY AND SPREAD PLEASE AND PLEASE. BABA HAS SPOKEN WONDERFULLY.

OPEN LETTER TO AHMED CTASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU

BY GENERAL ADEYINKA ADEBAYO

IYIN EKITI.

My dear Asiwaju,
I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state of affairs of the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a prime position to determine to a large extent the direction that the Yoruba people will go. The indisputable truth is that one may quarrel with your politics but your sagacity is never in doubt. Even those who don't see eye to eye with you agree that you are imbued with unusual native intelligence, uncommon people skills and unrivaled foresight. You, more than any other person, has been the game changer since the advent of democracy in 1999. It is for these reasons that I have chosen to direct this letter to you.

My singular purpose is to tug at the strings of your heart. I am not writing to appeal to partisan considerations but to see, if per chance, I can pour out my heart to you in a manner of speaking. God has blessed you even beyond your wildest imagination. You have installed Senators and Governors. You have removed Governors and even a President. You have also installed a President. There is nothing you have wished for or desired that you didn't get. Fortune has smiled on you. Goodwill follows you everywhere you go. You have done very well- more than most men ever will. However, there is one area that is begging for your urgent attention. This area may well define you and all you have ever achieved. This matter, in my opinion, is the only difference between you and the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Let me restate for the purpose of emphasis that this is the area in which the late sage and Leader of the Yorubas stand head and shoulders above you. It is the reason his name has been a constant denominator in our regional and national politics. It is the reason politicians, friends and foes invoke his name for political advantage and personal glory. It is also the reason why we can't stop talking about him almost thirty years after his death. What will anyone say about you thirty years after you have transited?

Asiwaju Sir, you may be wondering what I'm talking about? It is the issue of legacy. According to Peter Strople, 'Legacy is not leaving something for people, it is leaving something in people'. Legacy is building something that outlives you. Legacy is greater than currency. In the words of Leonard Sweet, ' What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy'. You can't live forever, Sir. No one can. But you can create something that will. Enough of speaking in parables- I shall now speak plainly.
When destiny brought you on the scene, we were enamoured because you championed the case for true federalism. It was your belief then that the Yoruba nation will fare better under a restructured arrangement than under the type of unitary government we run while pretending by calling it a federal government. Everyone knows that there is nothing federal about our government at all. If truth must be told, the Yoruba nation has fared very badly since the advent of our new democracy. And this is not about holding power at the centre.

Let me bring this home: someone passed a comment recently that he would want Biafra to become a reality because he knows the Igbo nation will survive. That comment led me to deeper introspection as I wondered if the Yorubas can truly survive. Let me cite my first example. From Oyo to Osun, Ogun to Ondo, Ekiti to Kwara and Lagos, hardly will one see any serious industry or manufacturing concern owned by a Yoruba person. I am not talking about portfolio businesses or one-man business concerns. Most industries in Oyo State are owned by the Lebanese. The native business and industry gurus who dominated the landscape- Nathaniel Idowu, Amos Adegoke, Lekan Salami, Alao Arisekola, Adeola Odutola, Jimoh Odutola, Chief Theophilus Adediran Oni and others- are all gone with no credible replacements. I'm sure you remember the tyre factory of the Odutolas and how Jimoh Odutola was even asked by the Governments of Kenya and Ghana to set up a similar factory in their countries. Chief Theophilus Adediran Oni, popularly called T.A Oni & Sons started the first indigenous construction company in Nigeria. He willed his residence- Goodwill House, to the Oyo/Western state government, to be used as a Paediatric Hospital, which is now known as T.A Oni Memorial Children Hospital at Ring Road in Ibadan. This sprawling family Estate and residence was cited on a 15acre piece of land, 65 rooms, with modern conveniences, Olympic Swimming Pool and stable for Horses, etc.
People like Chief Bode Akindele started companies like Standard Breweries and Dr Pepper Soft drink factory at Alomaja in Ibadan. Broking House built by the late Femi Johnson, an insurance magnate, still stands glittering in the mid-day sun as an epitome to a rich history that Ibadan has. The most serious and only notable Yoruba entrepreneur we have now is Michael Adenuga. I say this quite consciously because most of the other names are oil and gas barons. Most of what stood as testaments of industry in Oyo State are gone- Exide Batteries, Leyland Autos and many others. In its place are shopping malls and road side markets but no nation develops through buying and selling alone- especially when you're not actually producing what you're selling. Hypermarkets and supermarkets have taken over because of the need to feed our insatiable consumer-appetite and foreign tastes. In one instance, an ancient landmark in the form of a hotel was demolished to pave way for a mall. That is how low we have sunk. If our past is better than our present- if we always look back with nostalgia frequently, then there is a problem.

The case of other states is not different. Osun's case is pathetic. Ditto for Ondo and Ekiti. Ogun State can boast of some factories at Sango-Otta and Agbara axis but most of them are not owned by the Yorubas. There is no significant pharmaceutical company owned by any Yoruba except for Bond Chemicals in Awe, Oyo State- and its wallet share is very insignificant. For Lagos State, more than 70% of the manufacturing concerns and major industries in the State are owned by the Igbos. If the Igbos were to stop paying tax in Lagos State, the IGR of Lagos State will reduce by over 60%. In contrast, Sir, go to the South East and look at the manufacturing concerns in Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. Please don't forget those were areas ravaged by civil war a mere forty something years ago. The Igbos have certainly made tremendous progress but the Yoruba nation has regressed. I wish to state that this letter is not meant to whip up primordial considerations or ethnic sentiments but just to put things in proper perspective.

Asiwaju, I will like to also talk about the state of education in the Yoruba nation. Our education has gone to the dogs. We have a bunch of mis-educated and ill-educated young men and women roaming the streets. Ibadan, for instance, had the first University in Nigeria and the first set of research centres in Nigeria ( The Forestry Research Institute, the Cocoa Research Institute (CRIN), The Nigerian Cereal Research Institute Moor Plantation (NCRI), the NIHORT (Nigerian Institute of Horticultural Research), the NISER (Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research), IAR&T (Institute of Agriculture, Research and Training), amongst several others). Ibadan was the bastion of scholarship with people like Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, D.O Fagunwa and Amos Tutuola as residents. In the May/June 2015 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, Abia came tops. Anambra came 2nd while Edo was 3rd. Lagos placed 6th while Osun and Oyo was 29th and 26th. Ekiti was 11th, Ondo State was 13th and Ogun State was 19th. In 2013 WASSCE, only Lagos and Ogun States were the Yoruba States above the national average. If we do an analysis of how Lagos placed 6th in 2015, you will discover that it was substantially because of other nationalities resident in Lagos. For proof, please look no further than the winners of the Spelling Bee competition which has produced One-Day Governors in Lagos State. Since inception in 2001, other nationalities have won the competition six times (Ebuka Anisiobi in 2001, Ovuwhore Etiti in 2002, Abundance Ikechukwu in 2006, Daniel Osunbor in 2008, Akpakpan Iniodu Jones in 2011 and Lilian Ogbuefi in 2012). Sir, there is something seriously wrong about our state of education. From the vintage times of Obafemi Awolowo who initiated 'free education', we have regressed into a most parlous state.

Let me talk about roads, housing and infrastructure . The first dualized road in Nigeria, the Queen Elizabeth road from Mokola to Agodi in Ibadan was formally commissioned by Queen Elizabeth in 1956. The first Housing Estate in Nigeria is Bodija Housing Estate (also in Ibadan) which was built in 1958. The state of roads in the Yoruba nation has become pathetic. Our hinterland are still largely rural. Even some state capitals like Osogbo and Ado-Ekiti are big villages when you compare them to towns in the South East. How many new estates have been built over the last decade? Even Ajoda New Town lies in ruins.

We have abandoned the farm settlement strategy of the Western Region and only pay lip service to agriculture. Instead of feeding others like we once did, others now feed us. We plant no tomatoes, no pepper and the basic food that we require. The Indians have bought the large expanse of water body that we have in Onigambari village. The water body in Oke Ogun of Oyo State can provide enough fish to feed the whole of the South West. From being a major cocoa exporter many years ago, one can point to just a few vestiges of factories that still deal with Cocoa in the Yoruba nation. 80% of Cocoa processing industries in the South West have been shut down. The Chinese have taken over the cashew belt at Ogbomoso in Oyo State. They have even edged out the indigenes as brokers. They now come to the cashew belt to buy from the local farmers, sell on the spot to other Chinese exporters who now process the cashew nuts and import them back into Nigeria at a premium. Sir, there are only 7 major cashew processing plants in Nigeria and you can check out the ownership. The glory has departed from the Yoruba nation.

Apart from Asejire, Ede, Ikere Gorge and Oyan dams built ages ago, where are the new dams to cater for increased population and water capacity for the Yoruba nation? How have we improved on what our heroes past left us? Maybe apart from certain areas in Lagos State, others can't even supply their citizens with pipe-borne water.

Our youth which we used to take pride in are largely a mass of unemployed and unemployable people. Have you noticed the abundance of street urchins, area boys, touts and 'agberos' that we now have all across the Yoruba nation? Have you noticed the swell in the ranks of NURTW (I mean no disrespect to an otherwise noble union)? Have you noticed the increase in the number of Yoruba beggars? There was a time that it was taboo for a Yoruba man to beg- but no more. The spirit of apprenticeship is dead. There was a time that people who learn vocational skills celebrate what we referred to as 'freedom'. While that is largely moribund now in the Yoruba nation, the Igbos still practice it with great success.

The only thing we can boldly say the Yoruba nation controls is the information machinery- the press. We own largely the newspapers- the Nation, Punch, Nigerian Tribune, TV Continental and a few others. It is because of our control of this information machinery that we have rewritten the narrative in the country with the misguided self-belief that things are normal and we are making progress. A look beyond the surface will prove that this is so untrue.
We are largely divided. For the first time in the history of the Yoruba nation, religion is about to divide us further- and it is starting from Osun State. You are married to a Christian. My own father-in-law is an Alhaji. That is how we have peacefully do-existed but the fabrics are about to be torn to shreds because of poor management of issues. Afenifere has been reduced to a shadow of itself. OPC that once defended Yoruba interests has gone into oblivion. Yoruba elders have been vilified in the name of politics and partisanship. It is no longer news to see teenagers throwing stones at their elders because of their political indoctrination. Even under the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Yorubas never belonged to just a single party- yet our unity was without blemish. Now, our values have gone down the drain.

Asiwaju, I believe I have said enough. The task is Herculean but I believe Providence has brought you here for such a time like this. It is time for the Yoruba nation to clean up its acts. What do we really want? How can we quickly right the wrongs? The Yoruba nation is in a state of arrested development. The Yoruba nation is gasping for breath and crying for help. Will you rise up to the occasion? I am aware you understand that all politics is local and charity begins at home. Our fathers gave us a proverb: 'Bi o'ode o dun, bi igbe ni'gboro ri'. I know there are no quick fixes but I also know that if there is anyone who has the capacity to do something about our current situation, that person is you. This should be the legacy you should think of. Your legacy is our future.

Yours Very Sincerely,
Adebayo Adeyinka
Iyin-Ekiti

I swear they won't like this and another thing is that they will blame it on igbo ..just like masquerade chasing dreaming man that blamed it on igbo

Above all...it will be a dick measuring contest . Mark my word


Nice write up

ifyalways:
Threadia a nwuola

Obu gi gburu ya

MUVA:
Christopher123 nwanne kee ije?

Udo nwanne

AustineE1:
One is easily measured by his opinion in public discuss. You simply need to grow up,Wole Soyinka once wrote 'the man dies in all who keep quiet in the face of tyranny'.
The strength of our country should be built upon the constitution which places freedom of association and movement as our inalienable rights. For how along is Mr Buhari going to stop people from talking.....a wise man said 'the denial of our right is an invitation to fight for it'. History will surely remember Buhari for taking Nigerians more apart from each other. You dont solve a problem by running away from it. If you make dialogue impossible then you are making violence inevitable.

Forget that naught case

freeze001:
You have got to be kidding me! Ojukwu cannot be honoured as a hero in his own state and among his people because the Presidency feels insecure? Or us that the dull interpretation you can muster for a deliberate muzzling of one's rights?

When did it become the role of the FG to decide what part of history would be told and what other to be avoided and erased? U honestly credited you with some fair level of intelligence but you have floored me completely with proof to the contrary!

You would have been better off addressing the contents of the news even if with that mess u just typed in ur first and second paragraphs but no, u had to predictably attack the personality and business of the people you love to hate, that's where you classify them and their activities as shiit.

As for stirring those who hate u against you, that's all on u man...u do a good job of that every time u comment on political and ethnic issues. I'll give u free advice though, it is okay to support or believe in whatever u do but don't denigrate or put others down in the process, that's what makes u lose credibility. Personally, I don't think any sane person here has the energy to muster enough emotions to actually hate u, u simply don't have enough personality or 'presence' to actually command hate. When people express their negative feelings towards u it's more like disdain and irritation for a pesky fly that doesn't realise where it should be...

Again u credit urself with way too much importance, don't deceive urself into thinking anyone is 'following u around', you aren't worth it. This is a public forum, my comments are directed at you so I must quote u. It takes strength of character to take criticism without getting antagonistic or feeling threatened, something u and ur hero sorely lack and that's why he intimidates cititwith his DSS and u say stuff like ur last paragraph.

The omenka of a guy is funny ...he said those who hate me as if liking or hating him changes the price of dollar.personally I see him as an irritant and I don't quote him directly I do so via third party like this ..quoting him directly is like giving a pig a platinum snout ring.....so I avoid that act


He is inconsequential and I advice that you ignore him in totality ...sonw of these middle belt people have a way of reasoning ..maybe die to proximity with Fulani

Blackberrybabes:
The man who allegedly killed his wife and mother of his 2 children, Ronke Shonde in Lagos on Friday, has given his side of the story while in hiding. Lkan Shonde spoke to PUNCH Metro over the phone line provided by his in-law, Bolatito, which was confirmed by the police spokesperson, Dolapo Badmos. Mr. Shonde told Punch correspondent that his wife, Ronke provoked him on Thursday when she described how her lover slept with her in a hotel in Abuja on Thursday night.

Lekan, a depot worker in the Apapa area of Lagos State, said his wife of eight years changed after she allegedly started dating the general manager of a publishing company she worked for.
He said his late mother had warned him against marrying Ronke but he ignored his mother's warnings and still married Ronke, a decision he regrets.
He said the last time he beat his wife was three years ago after they had a disagreement, adding that he never touched her since then. He narrated...

“Since I married my wife eight years ago, she has never bought anything into the house. I gave her N5,000 on Saturdays and N3,000 on Tuesdays for soup. I also gave her money to make her hair.
“She was working with GTB as a marketer, but she got sacked three years ago. For that period, I was the one feeding her and taking responsibility for everything in the family. I would wash her pants, bathe the children and buy foodstuffs in the house. She later got a job with a publishing company owned by her uncle.

“But my wife changed sometime in March, when she started dating the general manger of a publishing company. My wife was going to the office from Monday to Sunday and she wasn’t going to church again, all because of this man. She called him ‘Eyitemi’ (My own).
“Last week Friday, she went to Abuja and came back on Monday. She never told me that the lover was there with her. I learnt later that the lover was there and they slept together in the same room for four days.

“When she came back, she didn’t know I was inside the house. She started talking with the man on the phone that he really had fun with him and I didn’t know how to make love. She again said her private parts were paining her.”
He said he confronted his late wife about the affair and she confirmed that she was indeed dating the other man.
He said he got angry and told his late wife to leave the house but she refused to leave.
He said that particular Thursday night, they had an argument over money. He said:

“It was around 9pm on Thursday. We had paid our nanny N20,000. Then we needed to pay our children’s teachers N30,000. I discovered she had taken N20,000 and when I asked her to return my money, she said she had spent it.
“I was angry because for the past three months, she didn’t allow me to have sex with her. I pushed her hand away from me on the staircase and I left her. She never tumbled or fell. In fact that night, I bought the food that we both ate because she said she didn’t want to cook.
“I didn’t know anything had happened to her until Friday when I saw her on the staircase. I thought she was still pretending. I just left her and walked away.”

When he was asked why he shut the gate against his children, he denied doing so, adding that it was his son who closed that gate after the he left the house.
Lekan also denied taking his late wife's phone, he said he left it on the bed.
He said he didn't kill his wife and that he had no motive to do so, stating that he had bought her two cars and always provided everything she needed.

He said, “Jide, her family’s second child lived with me for three to four years. Their eldest daughter, Bolatito, has lived with me too.
“Although I am not a saint, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I am a responsible man. The problem with my wife was that she was temperamental. She shouted at me whenever she talked.
“I am a Lagos boy and I can be in this Lagos for the next 30 years and nobody would see me.”
The aunt of the victim, Bunmi, explained that the suspect, Lekan Shonde, has been threatening suicide, but that they don't want him to do so becaise their mother had forgiven him.

She said, “Mummy is very sad with this, but she has forgiven him and does not want him to commit suicide.”
A family source said that Lekan had always accused his late wife of extra-marital affairs and that the suspect had frequently abused her. Adding that the police had been involved on occasion.

He said, “He always beat her because of his belief that she was into an extra-marital affair.
“The beating reduced a bit when the wife of her late brother who was one month pregnant before his death, moved into the house with them. She stayed for about eight months. She was like her saviour.”

http://www.punchng.com/alleged-killer-husband-speaks-hiding/

These guys are crazy ...come out of your hiding place Lekan

You are a man and you take care of the house ...even she doesn't buy anything in the house but she gave you kids

Monkey

But wait a minute why do some people cheat..

He did a number on her

There are some things men wony take ...that's cheating

ItsMeAboki:
LOL, see irony; as Igbo dey call somebody slave and prostitute when in fact na una Igbos be common property wey everybody dey catch and sell to oyinbo for slavery.
As for prostitutes; na una leaders dey confirm am, first Rochas and lately Kanu who talk say 99.9% of una women all na ashewo - which means most of una na Bastards.

Who does the show polishing in Nigeria
Who does the gateman job
Who does the mai guard
Who fetches water
Whockeabs the sewer

You know the tribe that does these jobs naa

Rexology:
Hahhahahha... bros I am neither Yoruba nor Hausa... if you doubt me quote me in Igbo language and I will respond to you with a refined central Igbo language. I don't really talk about tribes.

Oga speaking Igbo doesn't make you Igbo
I write English that doesn't make me an English man


Take it or you leave it

Iwu onye ofe

This is the things you get when a paranoid stupid to ld man is the head....

Biafra giving them hear attack since 1971 AD

useless country with useless security apparatus ...they can't even conduct simple to Intel just to do gragra


Common students is giving them nightmare


Ojukwu is from my place
He is my hero
A role model
An egalitarian
A man that sacrificed many things for his people


Who doesn't like this should take a cyanide tea

omenka:
First, if the state security think their speech has the potential to cause a security breach, then they have very reason to have the gentlemen cautioned.

Ojukwu can't be made to be seen as a hero whose actions must be emulated when what he's most remembered for is a war that cost the country immeasurable financial and emotional fortune.

Secondly, stop being overly emotional, trying to stair people who already hate me against me. I didn't call anyone "shiit" but rather their misinformation and propaganda. But if you who is presumably Igbo decide to call them "shiit" as you did, that is none of my business.

Lastly, stop following me around. State your opinion and move the fvck along. I am not one of your problems.

So Ojukwu shouldn't be seen as a hero what a travesty and idiocy


Why are you scared of Biafra ?

americanigga:
There are some recent development that have been going on for some time now- The activities of millitants -The Niger Delta Avengers. The whole thing which started as a joke has snowballed into a hydra-headed monster.

Before the recent bombing of the pipelines channeling oil to Kaduna and warri refineries and the Chevron plateform, the president had issued several warnings to this evil people engaging in an act of felony but they have refused to stop.

Lately, the president has ordered the military to do the needful and we know what that means.

The purpose of this post is to open the eyes of the innocent people of Niger Delta. The real enemy is not the federal government, the Yorubas, the Hausas or even the Fulani headsmen, but our real enemy is our close door neighbour who are claiming to be our brothers- The IPOBS and the BIAFRAN hopefuls.

Reasons.

(1) No Igbo man(Biafra or Ipob) has come out to condem the recent bombings by the Avengers. They are happy that we are polluting our lands, thereby destroying our fucture.

(2) They are even instigating the Avengers to keep destroying our infrastructures and our lands and also carry arms against the Nigerian army(especially on social media)

Reasons for this wicked act by Biafrans and Ipobs:

(1) Because Jonathan their adopted son lost the election to Buhari
(2) Because they feel that South South and South West supported the North to defeat Biafra during the civil war. They want South South to go to war with the federal government so that the federal government will kill the people of South South just the way they kill two million Biafrans. To them this is pay back time.

For some time now anybody or group that engages in any form of felony or misdemeanor are immediately backed by some people from the South East. They will back you untill you fall into fire then they will abandone you and mock you. Examples of people lured into fire by the South East:
Goodluck Jonathan, Nnamdi Kanu, Bukola Saraki, Femi Fani Kayode, Olisa Metu, Dokpesi, Tompolo, The Shittes, Dasuki, Deziani, etc. They will tell you that the federal governnent can't do anything, if Buhari tries to arrest any corrupt person they will kill, they will burn, they will bring this country down but their king, Nnamdi Kanu has been in prison for almost a year now nothing has happened. Olisa metu has olso learnt his own lesson he has suddenly turn mute.

Conclussion: The Avengers should immediately lay down their weapons and embrace the amnesty program. The Elders in Niger Delta should come out and condem the bombings. Please we should not destroy our own land because we do not have another one.

GOD BLESS NIGER DELTA
GOD BLESS APC
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
GOD BLESS BUHARI.

In dreams they have nightsmare it's an Igbo masquerade
They couldn't eat ...it's an Igbo trader
They couldn't reason it's an Igbo man

Everything Igbo



Igbo una too much...very enigmatic people and I am happy to be associated with them a


Lol..but SS has grown pass your divide and rule
Wake uo

tuale4u:
Ugomba is a Biafra apologist.
Anioma is part of Niger Delta republic. They are part of Mid west and later Bendel state.

Ignorant is bliss ..

Ganiyat72:
I love and admire the Igbo tribe

It will be well with u

He must be Igbo and I know .....lol trying to do this name checking stuffs
It sucks


But congratulations to that Igbo man ...oh they tag him Nigerian now but if it's drug it's Igbo man caught with drugs

uduak2016:
Yorruba man...why are you People so deceitful and divisive? God! SS and SE...the OP is trying to create division between Igbo and Niger Delta by saying that ND leaders are the problem. Just pure evil!

I can't vouch for anybody here in Nairaland but I can vouch for ugomba

He ain't Yoruba
He is Igbo from Delta state

That's I am sure of