₦airaland Forum

With the ongoing strike of ASUU, I believe it is time we start killing these old men parading themselves as our leaders. They have failed us massively.

I see no reason why universities will be shut down as if it is a shopping mall. Hardly is it that students will not experience the grosteque strike. This is embarrassing and shameful to the world.

ASUU on the other hand should also check themselves. They claim they are fighting for the students, they will never fight on how students will get job when they graduate. Sexual harassment, hiking of tuition fee and exploitation of students are rampant on our various campuses, yet they won't tackle that.

The coming generation should wake up from slumber. Our fathers are thieves and have failed us. So, they need to be relegated and killed. What is their purpose on earth? Only to inflict suffering on the younger ones. They are the problems of this great nation.

ASUU is scam
FG is scam
Old men are thieves, foraging around to fill their gluttonous stomach.

Students should wake up all over the nation and protest. We need to show them we can do and undo. We are the leaders of now.

martolux:
Ever seen a coward lion?? That's ridiculous!

I wonder ooo

yeyerolling:
He was over hyped by our ewedu media. I live in lag and with thE igr lag has na scam he be. Person dey coach barca wey get messi e dey claim good coach. When e reach west ham hin ass open. Na wetin happen to fash be dat

All I have to say is nonsense..

Jayloy:
People just run their mouth anyhow instead of being grateful that a bold youth like them is leading a movement to take back this government from recycled politicians. The movement is #Takeitback and not Sowore2019 because he himself knows that the youths who should vote for his likes are shouting Atikulating Obediently. Atiku who has been relevant in our politics since 1980s now contesting almost 40 years later.
Now let me ask you, who among the politicians have a vibrant campaign like Sowore. What of the quality of ideas his presenting. The youths need to be smart. And mind you there have been rumours especially by Deji Adeyanju that all the other youthful candidates have been bought save Sowore. My only issue with Sowore is that he doesn't know how to do little hypocrisy to win friends like many Nigerians.

That is the problem. They will never appreciate

CROWNWEALTH019:
Excuse has started pouring in

Should he keep quiet.

oshe11:
Congratz to Super Eagles for helping Argentina.....


MUSA is now a NATIONAL HERO in ARGENTINA

U get d point...

Campus Journalists across the nation are now demanding for immediate, unconditional, recall and reinstatement of Kunle Adebajo, a campus journalist and law student of University of Ibadan who is expected to go to law school this year.

The association faulted the suspension of Kunle, by the management under the leadership of Professor Idowu Olayinka.

However, Campus Journalist cross the nation are bittered by what happened to Adebanjo. "We are deeply disappointed that a university of prestige and calibre like University of Ibadan will fail to observe the ethics of journalism requires objectivity of Adebajo was seen as subjectivity by the University management which is appalling."

Stressing on the importance of freedom of press, the group added that "we would not fold our arms, we call on all well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the University management to rescind the suspension of Mr Adebajo."

Paperwhite:
The complete June-12 results have never been officially decleared That was just a costly political joke by Falana.

Try to understand things before commenting..

Commandoabdul:
The Oluwo of Iwoland in Osun State, Oba
Abdulrasheed Akanbi, said on March 31 that he
should henceforth be addressed as "Emir of
Iwoland" (he later declared himself “Emir of
Yorubaland” before saying he only meant that
Hausa people could call him that if they
wanted). This provoked a gratuitous cyber fight
between Yorubas and Hausa Muslims. The Oba
was derided by Yoruba people as taking on a
“Hausa title,” and Hausa people became the
target of derision. This, of course, ignited strong
reactions from Hausa people.
This intervention is merely linguistic; it is not
intended to justify the Oba’s choice of “Emir” as
his title. I personally think that the Oba is either
being deliberately provocative or is literally out
of his mind. When I watched a video of him
insulting a whole host of people and wildly
gesticulating in ways that, in my opinion,
demeaned his status as the king of a people, I
thought he needed more help than attacks.
Having said that, his use of the term “emir” to
refer to himself isn’t nearly the linguistic
sacrilege his critics think it is. Here is why:
1."Emir" is NOT a Hausa word. It's actually an
English word by way of the Arabic " amir," which
simply means ruler or leader or commander. So,
in a literal linguistic sense, every Oba, Obi, Sarki,
Suno, Tor, Ochi, Olu, etc. is an "emir."
As I pointed out in my June 15, 2014 column
titled, “A Pragmatic Analysis of ‘Emir,’ ‘Sarki,’
‘Oba’ and ‘Chief’ in Nigerian English,” the word
“emir” didn’t come directly into English from
Arabic. It was first domesticated in French as
“émir" before it was loaned to the English
language in 1593. (As the reader can see, the
English rendering of the word is unaltered from
French, except for the dropping of the grave
accent on the letter “e.”)
So “emir” has been an English word for more
than 400 years, that is, at least 200 years
before the Usman Dan Fodio jihad and about the
time Islam became widespread in Hausaland,
Yorubaland and elsewhere in Nigeria.
Another prominent, widely used derivative of
“ amir” in English is “admiral.” It is derived from
the Arabic " amir-ul-bahr ,” which translates as
“commander of the sea.” ( Amir ul or amir al
translates roughly as “commander of”). So if
you think “emir” is a Hausa word, what do you
think of “admiral” since it shares the same
lexical origins are “emir”? Like “emir,” admiral
was also first domesticated in French as
“ amiral ” and came to English as “admiral”
around the early 1200s.
It should be admitted, though, that although
“emir” is an English word with lexical roots in
Arabic, it’s often associated with Muslim rulers,
and evokes connotations of Hausa-Fulani
Muslim overlordship in Nigeria. I think that’s the
basis for the resistance against the title among
Yoruba nationalists. The successors to the
prophet of Islam (called khalifa or “Caliphs” in
Islamic literature) were often called “ amir-ul-
muminin,” which roughly translates as
commander of the faithful (i.e., Muslim
faithful).
(Interestingly, Hausa people don’t call the most
prominent traditional ruler in the Muslim north
the "Sultan of Sokoto"; they call him “ Sarkin
Musulumi ,” which translates as leader of
Muslims—obviously a domestication of “amir-ul-
muminin”; it’s also more natural for Hausa
speakers to say “ daular Usmaniyya ” than to say
“Sokoto Caliphate”).
2. Hausa people call their traditional rulers
"Sarki," not "Emir." (Ironically, "Seriki," the
Yoruba domestication of Sarki, is a common
Yoruba personal name, and even appears in
titles like " seriki adinni of Yorubaland," which
means the leader of religion/Islam in
Yorubaland). So both the Oba and his critics are
wrong in thinking that “emir” is a Hausa title.
The ethnic binaries Yoruba nationalists erect to
call attention to the absurdity of his change of
royal title would have been justified if he had
addressed himself as the “Sarki of Iwoland” or
the “Sarki of Yorubaland.”
3. It is unnatural for Hausa people to call their
traditional rulers "emir"—or even the original
Arabic "amir"—when they speak Hausa. It was
British colonialists who introduced the words
"emir" and "sultan" to northern Nigerian royal
lexical repertoire, but the words haven't even
been domesticated in the Hausa language,
showing that the people aren't quite enthused
about them. Saying “emir” or “sultan” while
speaking Hausa is generally understood as
code-mixing, that is, interspersing a
conversation with foreign words.
4. Similarly, in their quotidian conversational
encounters, Ilorin people call their "emir" Oba,
even though the "Oba" traces ancestral descent
from Fulani people. The market near the emir of
Ilorin's palace is called " oja oba," which means
"market of the oba" in Yoruba.
The following was my recounting of the
sociolinguistic complexity of the term “emir” in
Ilorin in my June 15, 2014 column:
“That is why Yoruba nationalists who want to
‘reclaim’ Ilorin resent the labeling of the
traditional ruler of the town as ‘Emir of Ilorin.’
Every so often, Yoruba cultural nationalists
spearhead the advocacy for the appointment of
an ‘Oba of Ilorin.’
“When I was a reporter for the Weekly Trust in
2000 I was assigned to cover a controversy over
the calls for an ‘Oba of Ilorin.’ In the course of
my investigation, I spoke with people from all
classes of the Ilorin society.
“One thing that struck me throughout my stay in
Ilorin for the story was that everybody in the
town, including members of the ruling family,
called their traditional ruler ‘Oba’ when they
spoke in Yoruba. ‘Emir’ sounded strange, even
forced. Like Hausa people up north, the Ilorin
people don’t relate well to the word ‘emir’
unless they are putting on airs or speaking in
English.
“A particularly insightful encounter for me was
an interview I had with an old, uneducated man
who identified himself as a descendant of
Afonja, the Yoruba founder of Ilorin who lost
power to the progenitor of the current ruling
family. I asked him if he wanted an ‘Oba of
Ilorin.’ He was genuinely befuddled. His
response, in Yoruba, was: ‘What are you talking
about? We already have an Oba.’ Using the
categories that have been popularized by the
Nigerian news media, I said, ‘No, you don’t have
an Oba; you have an emir.’ His comeback threw
me off. He didn’t know what an emir was. ‘Kilo
je be ? [what is that?],’ he said.
“That was when it dawned on me that ‘emir’ is
an English word that only western-educated
northerners use to refer to their traditional rulers
when they speak in English. Just like Hausa
speakers call their traditional rulers ‘sarki,’ Ilorin
people call theirs ‘oba.’ Every Ilorin person calls
the emir’s palace ‘ile Oba’ (which literally
translates as ‘the Oba’s house’). The biggest
market in Ilorin, which is close to the emir’s
palace, is called Oja Oba,’ which translates as
'the market of the Oba.'
“So ‘emir’ is rarely used in Ilorin—as in other
northern Muslim places—outside official
communication and in English-medium
conversations. A more appropriate question for
the old man should have been “do you want an
Oba who is Yoruba rather than this Oba whose
ancestors are Fulani?” I actually did rephrase
my question like that after realizing that the old
man couldn’t relate to the term ‘emir.’”
5. The roots of Islam in Iwo go back to several
centuries. The town had sharia courts and was
the center of Islamic scholarship several
decades before many northern Muslim
communities. Perhaps it is the basis for the
Oba’s decision to bear the title “emir.” The
colonialists who imposed the term “emir” on
northern Muslim traditional rulers could have
called Muslims obas in Yorubaland "emir" if they
wanted to, and it would have stuck.
Consider this: The very name “Yoruba” isn't
native to the Yoruba people, as I've written in
several columns; it's a colonial imposition,
which Ajayi Crowder helped to popularize. The
colonialists actually toyed with the name
"Nago" (the name of a Yoruba subgroup in
Benin Republic) but later chose “Yoruba,” which
is the corruption of Yoruba, the Songhai exonym
for people in the old Oyo Empire.
Even the Oduduwa myth of origin that Yoruba
people cherish about themselves came about as
a colonial project to foster a sense of oneness
among members of the cognate but
nonetheless disparate language groups that now
fancy themselves as Yoruba. (The colonialists
wanted to reduce Nigeria's ethnic and linguistic
complexity to just three ethnic groups, which
was unsuccessful. They also promoted the
Bayyagida myth and several other myths of
origin in Nigeria. I know this will be hard to
accept, but it's true).
Anyone who chose your very collective name
and fostered a collective identity where none
existed before could have done anything. The
colonialists (although it's the Portuguese) called
Eko "Lagos," and that's what we still call it
today. The colonialists decided that Yoruba
people in parts of what is now Kwara and Kogi
would be northerners, and that's what they are
today. So don't discount the power of
colonialists to shape identities. Had they chosen
to call obas emirs, that's what they would have
been.

By Farooq

The Oluwo of Iwoland in Osun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, said on March 31 that he should henceforth be addressed as "Emir of Iwoland" (he later declared himself “Emir of Yorubaland” before saying he only meant that Hausa people could call him that if they wanted). This provoked a gratuitous cyber fight between Yorubas and Hausa Muslims. The Oba was derided by Yoruba people as taking on a “Hausa title,” and Hausa people became the target of derision. This, of course, ignited strong reactions from Hausa people. This intervention is merely linguistic; it is not intended to justify the Oba’s choice of “Emir” as his title. I personally think that the Oba is either being deliberately provocative or is literally out of his mind. When I watched a video of him insulting a whole host of people and wildly gesticulating in ways that, in my opinion, demeaned his status as the king of a people, I thought he needed more help than attacks. Having said that, his use of the term “emir” to refer to himself isn’t nearly the linguistic sacrilege his critics think it is. Here is why: 1."Emir" is NOT a Hausa word. It's actually an English word by way of the Arabic " amir," which simply means ruler or leader or commander. So, in a literal linguistic sense, every Oba, Obi, Sarki, Suno, Tor, Ochi, Olu, etc. is an "emir." As I pointed out in my June 15, 2014 column titled, “A Pragmatic Analysis of ‘Emir,’ ‘Sarki,’ ‘Oba’ and ‘Chief’ in Nigerian English,” the word “emir” didn’t come directly into English from Arabic. It was first domesticated in French as “émir" before it was loaned to the English language in 1593. (As the reader can see, the English rendering of the word is unaltered from French, except for the dropping of the grave accent on the letter “e.”) So “emir” has been an English word for more than 400 years, that is, at least 200 years before the Usman Dan Fodio jihad and about the time Islam became widespread in Hausaland, Yorubaland and elsewhere in Nigeria. Another prominent, widely used derivative of “ amir” in English is “admiral.” It is derived from the Arabic " amir-ul-bahr ,” which translates as “commander of the sea.” ( Amir ul or amir al translates roughly as “commander of”). So if you think “emir” is a Hausa word, what do you think of “admiral” since it shares the same lexical origins are “emir”? Like “emir,” admiral was also first domesticated in French as “ amiral ” and came to English as “admiral” around the early 1200s. It should be admitted, though, that although “emir” is an English word with lexical roots in Arabic, it’s often associated with Muslim rulers, and evokes connotations of Hausa-Fulani Muslim overlordship in Nigeria. I think that’s the basis for the resistance against the title among Yoruba nationalists. The successors to the prophet of Islam (called khalifa or “Caliphs” in Islamic literature) were often called “ amir-ul- muminin,” which roughly translates as commander of the faithful (i.e., Muslim faithful). (Interestingly, Hausa people don’t call the most prominent traditional ruler in the Muslim north the "Sultan of Sokoto"; they call him “ Sarkin Musulumi ,” which translates as leader of Muslims—obviously a domestication of “amir-ul- muminin”; it’s also more natural for Hausa speakers to say “ daular Usmaniyya ” than to say “Sokoto Caliphate”). 2. Hausa people call their traditional rulers "Sarki," not "Emir." (Ironically, "Seriki," the Yoruba domestication of Sarki, is a common Yoruba personal name, and even appears in titles like " seriki adinni of Yorubaland," which means the leader of religion/Islam in Yorubaland). So both the Oba and his critics are wrong in thinking that “emir” is a Hausa title. The ethnic binaries Yoruba nationalists erect to call attention to the absurdity of his change of royal title would have been justified if he had addressed himself as the “Sarki of Iwoland” or the “Sarki of Yorubaland.” 3. It is unnatural for Hausa people to call their traditional rulers "emir"—or even the original Arabic "amir"—when they speak Hausa. It was British colonialists who introduced the words "emir" and "sultan" to northern Nigerian royal lexical repertoire, but the words haven't even been domesticated in the Hausa language, showing that the people aren't quite enthused about them. Saying “emir” or “sultan” while speaking Hausa is generally understood as code-mixing, that is, interspersing a conversation with foreign words. 4. Similarly, in their quotidian conversational encounters, Ilorin people call their "emir" Oba, even though the "Oba" traces ancestral descent from Fulani people. The market near the emir of Ilorin's palace is called " oja oba," which means "market of the oba" in Yoruba. The following was my recounting of the sociolinguistic complexity of the term “emir” in Ilorin in my June 15, 2014 column: “That is why Yoruba nationalists who want to ‘reclaim’ Ilorin resent the labeling of the traditional ruler of the town as ‘Emir of Ilorin.’ Every so often, Yoruba cultural nationalists spearhead the advocacy for the appointment of an ‘Oba of Ilorin.’ “When I was a reporter for the Weekly Trust in 2000 I was assigned to cover a controversy over the calls for an ‘Oba of Ilorin.’ In the course of my investigation, I spoke with people from all classes of the Ilorin society. “One thing that struck me throughout my stay in Ilorin for the story was that everybody in the town, including members of the ruling family, called their traditional ruler ‘Oba’ when they spoke in Yoruba. ‘Emir’ sounded strange, even forced. Like Hausa people up north, the Ilorin people don’t relate well to the word ‘emir’ unless they are putting on airs or speaking in English. “A particularly insightful encounter for me was an interview I had with an old, uneducated man who identified himself as a descendant of Afonja, the Yoruba founder of Ilorin who lost power to the progenitor of the current ruling family. I asked him if he wanted an ‘Oba of Ilorin.’ He was genuinely befuddled. His response, in Yoruba, was: ‘What are you talking about? We already have an Oba.’ Using the categories that have been popularized by the Nigerian news media, I said, ‘No, you don’t have an Oba; you have an emir.’ His comeback threw me off. He didn’t know what an emir was. ‘Kilo je be ? [what is that?],’ he said. “That was when it dawned on me that ‘emir’ is an English word that only western-educated northerners use to refer to their traditional rulers when they speak in English. Just like Hausa speakers call their traditional rulers ‘sarki,’ Ilorin people call theirs ‘oba.’ Every Ilorin person calls the emir’s palace ‘ile Oba’ (which literally translates as ‘the Oba’s house’). The biggest market in Ilorin, which is close to the emir’s palace, is called Oja Oba,’ which translates as 'the market of the Oba.' “So ‘emir’ is rarely used in Ilorin—as in other northern Muslim places—outside official communication and in English-medium conversations. A more appropriate question for the old man should have been “do you want an Oba who is Yoruba rather than this Oba whose ancestors are Fulani?” I actually did rephrase my question like that after realizing that the old man couldn’t relate to the term ‘emir.’” 5. The roots of Islam in Iwo go back to several centuries. The town had sharia courts and was the center of Islamic scholarship several decades before many northern Muslim communities. Perhaps it is the basis for the Oba’s decision to bear the title “emir.” The colonialists who imposed the term “emir” on northern Muslim traditional rulers could have called Muslims obas in Yorubaland "emir" if they wanted to, and it would have stuck. Consider this: The very name “Yoruba” isn't native to the Yoruba people, as I've written in several columns; it's a colonial imposition, which Ajayi Crowder helped to popularize. The colonialists actually toyed with the name "Nago" (the name of a Yoruba subgroup in Benin Republic) but later chose “Yoruba,” which is the corruption of Yoruba, the Songhai exonym for people in the old Oyo Empire. Even the Oduduwa myth of origin that Yoruba people cherish about themselves came about as a colonial project to foster a sense of oneness among members of the cognate but nonetheless disparate language groups that now fancy themselves as Yoruba. (The colonialists wanted to reduce Nigeria's ethnic and linguistic complexity to just three ethnic groups, which was unsuccessful. They also promoted the Bayyagida myth and several other myths of origin in Nigeria. I know this will be hard to accept, but it's true). Anyone who chose your very collective name and fostered a collective identity where none existed before could have done anything. The colonialists (although it's the Portuguese) called Eko "Lagos," and that's what we still call it today. The colonialists decided that Yoruba people in parts of what is now Kwara and Kogi would be northerners, and that's what they are today. So don't discount the power of colonialists to shape identities. Had they chosen to call obas emirs, that's what they would have been.

Emir" is NOT a Hausa word. It's actually an
English word by way of the Arabic " amir," which
simply means ruler or leader or commander. So,
in a literal linguistic sense, every Oba, Obi, Sarki,
Suno, Tor, Ochi, Olu, etc. is an "emir."

kennosklint:
Is not new to the yorubas,soon they tell you that the title Emir is an Yoruba origin just as they are claiming Oba from the Edo’s.useless people

See u. Did u know where the title Emir descend from?

alienvirus:
This guy has finally lost it. What has gone wrong with Femi? What is the name of the disease he is suffering from?

NEPA bill disease

How does sport activity affects our salat? Please, anyone with a contribution to please contribute to this.

I will deal and ban ASUU then increase d budget of education and jail Saraki. I will hand over to military then fly out of the country.

LordIsaac:
The truth is, most graduates of these core North institutions can barely communicate in English Language. I was in camp at Jigawa with many of them...oh, what a woeful experience!

Well, you are right but nt all. I am a great danfodite and base in Lagos.

willjoe:
Shut up! Fayose isn't a saint but the Rule of Law must prevail.

Rule of Law, with thugs.

Fyno:
Birds of the same feather

Birds of a feather.

A large fire erupted some shops at the hostel mini market in Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. Yesterday.
The incident which occurred around 10:00 pm on Thursday was reported to have been caused by electrical surge. However, intervention of the Sokoto State Fire Service, saved much damages that would have been recorded by the inferno to only four shops. A salon, a cosmetic shop and two other shops were reported to have been the casualties of the conflagration.
An eyewitness disclosed that, only three shops were totally engulfed by the fire outbreak. It was reported that nothing tangible was to be saved from the so called inferno in the three affected shops

Very stu.pid girl. She doesn't even understand the hadith.
Even her master Ali nuhu said the same thing. Actions are judged by intentions... they seriously don't understand it

Must u insuit.

Usman danfodio University SUG too useless...

I wonder o which kind thing be this?

Nigeria is a country that turns the bad to good.. All these is as a result of poverty. Poverty have eaten to the root, so no option than to look for a way out. I rep Baba Fela Suffering an Smiling...

PoliticalThuG:
It usually happens when a dullard rules a country

The brilliant....

boboLIL:
Osinbajo is a puppet.... No respect to God... No respect to church.. How can a pastor criticise someone in the church in the name of politics? End time sha...

See someone whey get respect

She schools at polytechnic of Califonia ;DShe schools at polytechnic of Califonia