kevapet:
I think OYSG will eventually be forced to ask the FG to leave Ibadan airport in its care. OYSG wants the airport renovated and rebuilt to mordern standard but FG is playing deaf and dumb to that. You should always use our very own Overland airways anyway. We need to be more conservative as we can't afford to be stupid even in 2021.

There is need to build aerodrome in most of major cities across southwest for future purposes and it will enhance our HDI, innovation and investment chances too. And I think it is more realistic than proposed mono rail projects for now and get planes in the class of Douglas DC 3 we can even advance it to suit our society dimensions.

kevapet:
Odua group is working though if you ask me. Plenty room for improvement anyway.

If they can just work on the sports aspect and theatre(creative industry) business they will be able to generate billions of naira and get those sectors to develop by first allowing local investors to invest and they should make it community base(build it from grassroots) and they can get wema bank to provide the funds. Just some little packaging and organisation needed but over the years leaders of the group just focus on real estate and banking. What keep economic and business of a socio~space flowing is entertainment which is lacking and I think only Lagos is trying in these aspects. If they can work on these two sectors in the next 10years you'll see that unemployment will reduce dramatically.
Also they need to bring our tertiary institutions together for innovations and IT. It's high time we look in ward and make the money flow from the grassroot and stop looking for foreign investors up and down. If we keep looking for foreign investors it will aid economic inflation further and the greatest resource is human resources which is underutilized in Nigeria as whole.

There is need to make Odua Group to function well and not just be sharing money and selling bonds. And it's high time SW governors charge the company with an agenda. How can they mismanage the western region properties from 21 to 5 and no one is saying anything.

Blame the middlemen and flood. According to the failure of a president.

Also things will keep on getting expensive as long as there is insecurities in the land

If you're principled nothing will make you write against what you believe. Money doesn't change those who are principled because it works alongside integrity which Buhari and FA lacks. Most of current Yoruba politicians don't have principles and are behaving like S.L.A.

festacman:
Femi Adesina was hired like any other presidential spokesperson to amplify and project the thoughts and words of his principal, Pres. Buhari. There is no other way to do this job except the way he is doing it. It is the same way Duro Onabule did it for Ibrahim Babangida, Femi Fani Kayode did it for Baba Obasanjo, Segun Adeniyi did it for late Umaru Yar'adua, Doyin Okupe and Reuben Abati did it for Goodluck Jonathan. It is way the spokespersons of 36 Governors do it. The same way Ms. Kayleigh McEnany did it for former POTUS Trump. Above all, it was the same way late Yinka Odumakin did it for Afenifere.

Femi Adesina is not the only Yoruba in Buhari's government. Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Niyi Adebayo, Sunday Dare, Olamilekan Adegbite, Babatunde Fashola and Adeleke Mamora are all members of Pres. Buhari's cabinet. Hundreds more are enjoying juicy political appointments. What is more, even the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is a proud Yoruba.

Therefore, it is simply wicked for Afenifere as a major ethnic organization and Pa Adebanjo as an elder to mischievously tag Femi Adesina a "a sell-out of the Yoruba people" because some Yoruba youths might misinterpret this as a 'fatwa' and therefore target Femi Adesina even when he is out of office.

It is unfair for to transfer one's hatred for Buhari's government, which Yoruba midwifed, to Femi Adesina and make him an escape goat unnecessarily .

Why can't they use ak47 or even more sophisticated weapons in some specialized situations. I think it's high time you governors start rubbing it on FG face that people's security of life and properties is compulsory.
They can start by allowing them to use all this Ak and Ms with rubber bullets..

EcoBrick:


https://punchng.com/makinde-blames-oyo-security-challenges-on-population-increase/

What does it takes to get license to this and how can we maximize it for economic purposes.

OneTemplate:



A lot my bro. We are being held back by the unwieldy and retrogressive structure of Nigeria which tries to force people of different talent, abiillity, focus and mindset to operate at the same level.

Some of us know why we want more autonomy handed to States and regions so they escape the retrogressive stranglehold of the FG that tends to keep some States and region backwards to accommodate those who want all of us underdeveloped till they catch up.

Below is one example of many endowments of the SW we are yet to tap into appreciably. It is a shame how "one Nigeria" has frustrated the progress the Yorubas can make.


https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214509516300201





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUV3r_rhSgQ

Hello guys I have idea on how go make Southwest work fast even despite we not controlling our resources.

Applying Awolowo nation building principles from a private sector using Odua investment company. There is no state that doesn't want to make more money especially as the country is broke right now...

Technological innovation and investment. Sports, Art and Creative industries.

jrjfjfj:
But about the diversification of Yorubaland ,What do you think is feasible and can generate foreign exchange into Yorubaland ,apart from oil,ports and Cocoa exports

Someone need to make the move by approaching O'dua group and setting up appointments with governors and note O'dua group worth roughly $300million and so with $500billion to $1billion in a joint investment with Odua group while focusing the investment on all sector and basically to only invest. This partnership will ensure that the 6 Southwestern states will allow O'dua group and business partners to make use and influence all sector of the respective states including the management of assets only if the governors will agree. With a 10years plan of what the investment will yield in 10years by seeking to dominate and expand market which O'dua group and partners are currently involved in. The respective states shouldn't expect returns from O'dua group in 10years with a five years (6months every year for the 10years) tax holiday for companies investing in the agenda with a template and blueprint. And if Yoruba people worldwide can come together and raise the fund with a strict investment purpose in these agenda too. Employments with carried out using communalistic approach. Making our states institutions work as one.

jrjfjfj:
We cant develop our region in a large amount ,without controlling our resources first .How will the Yoruba government develop our space without finances ,no way .Except Private investors of Yoruba origin with foreign exchange comes to invest in yorubaland,but how many are they ?
Money are being generated from Yorubaland through
1 Yoruba ports and waterways
2 Yoruba customs
3 Yoruba airports
4 Yoruba oil and gas industries (lagos ,ondo,itshekiri)
5 lagos stock exchange
6 Agricultural exports
these are the monies that are supposed to be used to develop yorubaland ,but we are not in controll of it

Dawn commission should make move the present crops of the Dawn commissioners need to do more and get Oduduwa group to enter a proper business market and partnership and come up with a way of making hightest return to the government of SW if Dawn commission sell some innovations and business Ideas I don't know why they are so not smart if I was the chairman of Odua group I'd have approach the governors they don't need to give much and come up with couple of billions 10billion dollars and coming up with some policies I think it will be great...
If Southwest governors can come with policies in Favour of O'dua group and let them handle southwest from a business angle....

sophxx:
Totally true. Federalism doesn't in anyway favour Yoruba. Coming together of the states to build something like that can never be possible since they all have their burdens to bear well maybe they can through Oodua investment if only it will be profitable. We just have to keep fighting for regional or Oduduwa honestly.

If people in the government is not ready private and capable individuals can come with this only if government is will and ready to make more money. If we can get this to work from private angle I guess government will sit up trust me... though dangote is currying government favor it is because dangote gives anyone in government to surely work for him.. if our state governors can genuinely agree to work with private investors of Yoruba origins and start by patronizing our local innovations at various governments level. If there is a way the we can make this our region work even though federal government might use our tax to develop other regions only if our current governors use this insecurities in the country to make Amotekun formidable.. how I wish Ambode is still governor of lagos state. Dawn commission makes some functional moves then.. but sanwo olu is just a puppet.


P:S Anyone that knows how taxing system works in Nigeria should please explain. To know how FG and States taxes.

jrjfjfj:
This is so sad for we yorubas.Awolowo must be rolling in his grave ,he would be shocked to see how south west have been derailed ,and ought to have been better .As at 1959 ,Western nigeria was far better than Singapore , But now you cant even compare both again , as at then Western nigeria already got its embassy in Uk ,same embassy nigeria took from us ,and using till date ,same with Abuja house ,acuired by western nigeria for a place of refuge for Yorubas in uk ,A very promising media power ,as the only region with a Tv brocasting station in africa as at 1959, A good educational system with Free universal basic education ,aimed at developing the brain power of the Yorubas ,at the same time developing our human resources ,A good farming settlement system ,which aims at Yorubaland been a food sufficient region.All this were a good headstart to be a regional power ,but some how was truncated and began to derail .To be candid ,The rate of poverty in Yorubaland is alarming ,Most of our young boys and girls are into Yahoo Yahoo ,ritualism and human part dealing , armed robbery ,touts,agbero,drug addict ,smoking hard drugs and Olosho due to poverty and lack of parental care and divorce among Yoruba couples in which poverty is amain cause eg a home where the father is unable to feed his wife and children due to poverty will surely lead to divorce ,which makes the young vulnerable ones to be exposed to all sort of harm and threats turning them to street urchins ,junkies and street beggar and miscreants,Even most of our Youths are not intrested in education anymore ,which was contrary to Awolowos education plan as at the 60s,which was every Yoruba child must be educated ,rich or poor ,every Yoruba child must enjoy free basic education ,then should pass through the secondary and then tetiary,with provision of scholarships and student loan which student begins to pay back ,After he or she has acquired the required qualifications to work ,with no intrest .But it is not what we experience in Yorubaland today.As at today there is no financial and welfare support for Yoruba citizens ,no stident loans,no agricultural loan ,no free and affordable housing benefit ,nothing at all the help common yoruba citizen,so why wont a yoruba youth with no financial backing and parental guidance and care wont result in to crime .The proposed Solution to our problems facing us in Yorubaland is A RETURN TO REGIONAL GOVERNMENT and even at most ODUDUWA REPUBLIC .Ever since Ironsi and Gowon goverments have successively destroyed regionalism ,Yorubaland has been on steady decline .Note this :Yorubaland Will never be great untill ,we the Yorubas are able to control our resources .

Can't all these be handed over to a private investor or Dawn commission to lunch a bid to own all the institution of the western region and regional properties and take them over from FG or anyone that occupies the owner's page of them all. And get all this commissioners of sports and other commissioners to work together and come up a regional competition from the grassroots to the regional level that will be dynamic with divisional leagues of different age group. Or can't we even raise funds as an ethnic nation to take over these edifices... I know if Awolowo was given lot of chance and his pace and legacies was followed building like cocoa house would have flood all our cities and western region would have been europe in Africa and Nigeria would have be a first world country.
If we can try make it work from private sector and let's how it will go.

jrjfjfj:
The Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, the first to be constructed in Nigeria and Africa in 1960, shot the country into the world boxing fame in 1962 when it hosted the first world boxing title fight in Africa. The bout saw Nigeria’s Dick Tiger beating America’s Gene Fullmer to win the world middleweight boxing title.
The complex was one of the several infrastructure and institutions that the Chief Obafemi Awolowo government established and programmed to take the region, and by extension Nigeria and the Black race to the pinnacle of global emancipation and development.

And from the early 1960s, through the 70s and late 80s, the Liberty Stadium was ‘alive,’ fulfilling Awolowo’s objectives as centre of sports engagement, activity and development in West Africa’s largest city, Ibadan.



That fight between Dick Tiger and Gene Fullmer in 1963 was one of the ways Awolowo used in showcasing Western Nigeria’s emergence as an authentic technological, social, cultural and economic regional power to the rest of the world. It saw Ibadan city welcoming the whole army of agents, managers, the media and the world’s boxing travelling fans who, in their hundreds, followed the train of the best boxing fights around the world then.
However, like many sectors of the nation’s economy, the Liberty Stadium, which stood then as a pride of Africa, has since become an eyesore, with reptiles of various shapes now occupying the edifice.

The complex, which was renamed Obafemi Awolowo Stadium by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2015, needs Federal Government’s intervention as quickly as possible.From the main bowl pitch, the tartan track, to the swimming pool, a first time visitor to the Liberty Stadium will mistake it for an old theatre of war.

The Guardian learnt during a visit to the complex on Monday that a contractor removed the polyurethane on the tartan track in 2014 with a promise to replace it. It was never done.

An official of the Ministry of Youth and Sports told The Guardian that when he assumed duty in 2014, the swimming pool and other facilities within the Liberty Stadium were already in bad shape. “That same year, the contract for the renovation of the swimming pool was awarded to a Lagos-based contractor. But I don’t really know why he couldn’t fix it. The same thing happened to the tartan track. A contractor came from Abuja and removed the old surface with a promise that he was coming to fix it soon. Till today, we did not see the tartan track and the contractor,” he stated.

Former Green Eagles winger, Adegoke Adelabu was one of the regular users of the Liberty stadium in his active days. He told The Guardian that it was the dream of any Nigerian player to play at the complex then. “In our days, it was a dream for anyone to play at the Liberty stadium because the complex was so good that even players from different parts of Africa wanted to visit it.“One great thing about the Liberty Stadium then was that you can beat any visiting team there, and you could also be beaten at home because the pitch was good for everyone to play football. But I don’t know how the complex suddenly became a waste. The government has to do something about it and also generate games to be played at Liberty stadium,” Adelabu stated.

In 1980, the Liberty stadium hosted several matches during the African Cup of Nations, which Nigeria hosted, including a semi-final between Algeria and Egypt. The Liberty Stadium, along eight other stadia hosted the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. The complex hosted all of the Group C matches, one of the Round of 16 matches, and one of the quarterfinal matches.

Apart from the main bowl, the Liberty Stadium has three football pitches with floodlights. At inception, the complex also boasted the indoor sports hall for boxing, swimming pool, courts for tennis, volleyball, handball, basketball and hockey.Former Green Eagles captain, ‘Mathematical’ Segun Odegbami, played his first international match inside Liberty stadium in 1973 against Central African Republic in preparation for the All Africa Games. The match was played under floodlights.

According to Odegbami, Western Nigeria became the focus of the world’s major media many months after the Liberty stadium hosted the Dick Tiger versus Gene Fulmer fight. “It was unprecedented advertisement for the people as one of the fastest and most ambitious developing regions in West Africa,” he said. “Liberty Stadium was a great showpiece because its architecture was unique. Some of its facilities were world-class and it was a local tourist attraction for visitors because its sports facilities engaged the teeming youths from schools and sports clubs, and produced national champions in many sports.”

How the decay started
Chief Segun Odegbami revealed that when the Federal Government picked Liberty stadium for renovation ahead the proposed 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship, the engineers in an Israeli firm that was contracted to do the job lamented that what they met on ground in the complex was far ahead of whatever they had brought to ‘improve’ the stadium.

“They admitted that the drainage system underneath the stadium pitch was better than the untested ‘Cell’ underground watering system they had brought and wondered why Nigerian sports administrators in charge were insisting they should go ahead with the excavation and demolition when they advised against it.

“In ‘renovating’ the stadium, the Israelis completely destroyed it. Since that ill-informed deliberate destructive act, the Stadium has remained prostate, its painted walls a shell and a constant and painful reminder of what was once one of the best in the world,” Odegbami stated.In the 80s, the Liberty stadium was a ‘Mecca’. “People came on excursions for a tour of the facilities,” Odegbami said. “They would wait and watch the well-choreographed watering system of the turf that took place three times every day throughout the year.

“Thousands of spectators came daily to watch the training sessions of star athletes on the facilities – the great Shooting Stars FC on the lush green football training field, track and field, cricket, volleyball, badminton, basketball and table tennis athletes many of whom were representing Nigeria at the time.

“The youths from all over the state came in droves, mornings and evenings, to ‘drink’ lavishly and freely from the well of inspiration of the known star athletes training daily at the stadium.”Odegbami added: “The stadium had excellent functional floodlights. Many of the international matches Shooting Stars played at the time, mostly against football clubs from Germany, England and even Brazil, were played at night.”

“I am sure if Chief Awolowo should wake up from his place of eternal rest and see what has become of the Western Region of Nigeria, one of the places that would make him wail the loudest would be the Liberty Stadium. “He would wonder how a people he left, sophisticated, enlightened and largely educated, with respect for values and a way of life that set them apart from the rest, would destroy one of their greatest legacies on the altar of personal interests, materialism, bad conduct and poor political judgments. Even in the 1950s, Chief Awolowo had understood the immense power of sport in national development. In 1971, I still met the structures, facilities, and personnel running the sports agenda of Chief Awolowo and his immediate successors. It was a visionary script for the development of Western Nigeria with sports as a major contributor,” Odegbami stated.

For years, many Nigerian athletes, including the likes of Innocent Egbunike, Chidi Imoh, Olapade Adenikan, the Ezinwa brothers (Davidson and Osmond), Sunday Bada, Chioma Ajunwa, Mary Onyali, Falilat Ogunkoya, Fatima Yusuf, Tina Iheagwam, Faith Idehen, Beatrice Utondu, Mary Tombiri and Christy Okpara-Thompson used Liberty stadium tartan track to prepare for international competitions. Today, the tartan track is like a ‘run way’ for airplanes. There is nothing covering the hard surface for athletes to carry out their track and field business.

In the build up to Cairo ‘91’ All African Games, the hostel at the Liberty Stadium was used as campsite for the swimmers including the likes of Mrs. Ngozi Chris Momah. Like other parts of the complex, the stadium hostel is in serious decay. Apart from being overshadowed by weeds, including cassava farm around it, all facilities inside the hostel are either vandalised or damaged. The dinning hall, bathroom and toilet facilities are no go areas.

The swimming pool itself is a complete disaster. In the old good days of Nigerian sports, the swimming pool at the Liberty Stadium was one of the best in Africa. It is an Olympics size swimming pool. But poor maintenance culture, which has eaten deep into the fabrics of Nigerian sports facilities, is taking its toe on the Liberty stadium swimming pool.

Today, thick bushes have taken over the swimming pool, with athletes, who use the facilities, saying they often see snakes and other reptiles coming out of the water.The roof of the spectators’ stand of the swimming pool and the stairs have fallen off, while the tiles covering the pavement have peeled off with grass taking over more than 80 per cent of the surface.

Nice Thread so far and we are getting there and surely we'll be there one day with or without Nigeria. But there is always room for more development and how it can impact the life of ordinary citizens so I think there is need for a full scale agriculture in commercial level. We need to focus on technology and research too and there is need to integrate our institutions of higher learning for this purpose. Lautech and co have proven to us over the years that we have what it takes to develop our technologies and develop our engineering sectors. Why must we give our contract to china and foreign firms when we have resources controlled by the state government to develop our states. Our sporting sector too is not vibrant like the 80s again poor sporting facilities lagos included. The need to domesticate our public private partnerships to allow homegrown content.

I'll use Oyo state as case study here. Oyo state is divided into five political zones.
Ibadan
Ogbomoso
Oyo
Ibarapa
Okeogun.
These five zones can be turn to a business district which can be self sufficient while doing my analysis, the need to divide Ibadan and Okeogun into two business districts to allow widespread and effective businesses and the need to balance the local with modern drive of our development in that case there will be more development and more tax to the government. With $500million this economic zones will yield more result in both human development and infrastructural development. And the need to allow our local companies to invest. And the Dawn agenda can be hasten up if it's communally.
The development has to be grassroot base so that it can generate the needed income and development. You can't open a restaurant of #1000 per plate in a community where people people can't boast of #100 that is poverty in the midst of prosperity. Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ondo, Ekiti are neglecting the local markets because it is Local. We need to reorganize the marketing system in the agriculture first and internally sufficient. We make people to buy what they earning from.

Art and creative industries is lagging behind in all Southwestern states and that's where the money is and loads of employments.. Art and Creative industries keeps businesses flowing.

Buhari is a duplicate of an animal so don't expect much from a cow than to graze and be killed for Owanbe.

Even Nigeria is not sustainable again.

I used to own a Labrador retriever

wittywriter:


This must be a PhotoShop...
If not then this administration is earnestly creating history in the world's black books.

©Wittyness

Definitely

buckeyemedia:
If you like don’t use your time on the internet finding away to make Naira to deposit in your bank account, be on the internet wasting your time imagining an illusion country. Tomorrow you will blame President Buhari for ruining your future because you perceive that there is something about you that makes you special amongst the other 200 million black faces like you in Nigeria?

Wait for it...and I'm very sure I'm living a good life than you'll ever imagine...

Have a good evening.

buckeyemedia:
Thanks for reiterating the point, On one Nigeria we stand.

You stand alone. No one is standing with you.

buckeyemedia:
It depends on who is telling the history, none sense, when Oduduwa got to ife, weren’t people already living there & progressing? wasn’t the Benin kingdom in existence?

And no one has ever questioned the status of Oduduwa as Progenitor of the Yoruba race and the Benin people can't deny having links with the Yoruba people...

plaindealer:


Part of Biafra or was uninhabited.

You mean rivers right...

buckeyemedia:
It was a fort (Eko) for the Oba of Benin, it became a British Colony in 1861, & Lagos Colony was joined to The Southern protectorate in 1906, Lagos is not one, it is combination of islands the make up Lagos State. Of course Nigeria created by the British that Awolowo your modern times Oduduwa went to study law there, will fall so you can go back to when you were living in huts & cooking with firewood?

Then why is being governed and administered by Yoruba people. And even Oba of Benin is a product to Yoruba Royalty. You need to be schooled but I won't do that for you. When Nigeria divide, you can come and take Lagos out of the country. And you mean your people living in a landlocked and inside bush.

They can always relocate to the north since they want to be Muslim before they are Yoruba. Everybody in Oduduwa republic will be govern with the same law.

buckeyemedia:
Because black man like you knows more than the Oyibo people that put Nigeria together? Lagos was joined to Southern Nigeria in 1906 by the British, who gave them the permission to add Lagos Colony to the south? Ok Lagos State has been removed from Western Nigeria, pre 1906 & is now a Country on its own, do you have anywhere to go?

And which part of the country lagos belongs to before the colonialism. And Nigeria is a British creation, a creation without the people's consent that's why it is bound to fail. You just your phone to type trash online and you think you're making sense. And for sure I know more than the Oyibo because this is where I come from and I know my history. Even Oyinbo man is afraid of an independent Yoruba nation that is why they maneuver the country in benefits of the north.


BTW stop seeing White people as supreme to yourself. Because we are different in colour doesn't mean he's wiser and smarter than me.


Don't worry e go shock una when e happen.

The north is afraid that all their elite will be broke and there will not be free oil money and tax payer money from south.

The breaking up of this shithole called nigeria is certainly certain..��

After the break up this Yahoo of a king and his cohort should be ready to go. Because Yoruba race will not suffer and his likes will be seriously dealt with...

Nonsense and ingredients

Hope that will be dashed after the meeting...���

You've failed not only your children but the generations unborn because non of your generation will be remembered for good. Cursed generation.

If you like call us social media terrorists it won't change the fact that your pay master and his cohorts are the new definition of failure...

It's only empty barrels that is noisy because there is no oil in it... so APC achievements is noise making because their achievements is no achievement

Yes blow your trumpet of failure...


Because the trumpet of visible and impacting achievements will never sound from you.

They need to substitute the word failure with Buhari...