₦airaland Forum

Putindbutt:
I'm not surprised at those mannerless people attacking the girls, you already know they grew up throwing leg kicks at their..... if i complete it the bot would ban me.

There are ways you can deceive that bot. Use grammars and plenty words, bot ear go begin pain am...

But I still don't get why an African, a Nigerian will see anything wrong with those small girls kneeling to the ancestors. Tinubu get children wey fit born dem na. Wetin?

Nigerian man with copy copy of Western world. Dem no dey ever copy better thing o, na things without substance dem go copy and call modern day wokeness...


Awón òní yéyé

OLAADEGBU:
This renaming exercise is just the latest in a long-standing tradition of using symbolic gestures to mask deeper systemic neglect. Streets and bus stops may carry cultural weight, but they do not determine the presence or power of a people. Ownership does. And in today’s Lagos, indigenous ownership is fading fast.

The bolded is a fact.

When Symbolism Becomes a Substitute for Substance

Here lies the core contradiction. In its quest to reassert Yoruba identity, the government seems to be prioritising optics by renaming bus stops, repainting signboards, sponsoring festivals. These actions are not inherently wrong, but they are insufficient.

What do we gain by changing “Ozumba Mbadiwe” to “MKO Abiola Avenue” if the people whose heritage is being honoured can no longer afford to live there?

What message do we send when we proudly emblazon Yoruba names on signs, while the original landowners have been displaced to Mowe, Ifo, or Akute?

Cultural presence must be material, not merely symbolic. If housing, inheritance, and education are not protected, Yoruba identity in Lagos will survive only in archives and museums, and not in living, breathing communities.

And this point in quote are among the reasons I say those who even brought the matter up in the first place are total smart dumbos who are entirely clueless on what to do with the position they've achieved in today's Nigeria.

Ah, I forgot, they know what they are doing.... They're wasting time with unnecessary matters as usual.

IBB007:
Lol…we hardly do official business with USA so I don’t think it’ll affect us much

Like you no even know our country pipu.

Just like the Iran and Israel "brawl" made pump price jump, just this news will make the prices goods coming from even China to add something. Nigeria wey ordinary rain dey increase transport money... U never just know ya country pipu..

Maxymilliano:
Nigeria should also reciprocate in a like manner ...

An eye for an eye

Oh, wetin Nigeria go fit do?

This ancestor will like to know...

But this Atiku life na wa o...

Person wey fight for governorship 2 times, e no win. The time e manage win for '98 dem come say make e no do, make e come be vice president. E do dat one until 2007 and since then until today, e don dey fight for presidency even people don dey used to dey vote against him yet e never tire. E still go create another party.... ☺️☺️

Make dem let the man lick stew small na... Haba 😏

Why's this a matter to be taken seriously by people who're supposed to be focusing on ideas and issues that are more pressing for the nation? It just shows they don't have anything sensible or serious to do with their position hence the too much time on their hands to waste on this.

Lagos and many or any large city can be called everybody's land but no matter, the land still has its own indigenous people and tribes who have been long naturalized with the place. Or dem go force OBA comot for Yoruba man hand?

As for political positions, that can be possible. For reasons any sensible person should know.

Worst is the werey dem always clamoring and shouting Lagos is no man's land know inside their hearts say dem be stranger as all of dem sef get their states and villages wey dem abandon come Lagos.

Make una go face una governors and representatives, if dem do the area well, investments both foreign and local go thrive and you wereys will have little need to pack una yéyé selves come Lagos.


All subsequent government for this country na cruise.

BlackViper:
Somehow, there is always money for lavish and meaningless spending on politicians. Even in the middle of "belt tightening" their comfort always comes first.

At least we now know why the Nigerian Army is losing the battle against insurgency and Fulani herdsmen

Where ya treasure is, there ya heart will be....

After people among the citizenry wey no serious go begin talk yéyé things like make poor man get love for a place where dem no even get shishi let alone treasure.

These people are parasitic to the nation. The wereys among the ordinary people wey dey support dem, I pity una when e set. Una go follow collect. Nonsense

IamANigerianMan:
I don't know why Nigeria is still bacon on military to win war.... The world is fighting war with BIOMEDICAL WEAPON.... Remember Israel was eliminating IRAN top generals without the Israel's presence..... Disband the current military and train police to do work.... This mode of war where 18-20 years are employ to fight enemy is outdated..... AK 47 and 49 is useless.... Employee more of software Engineers to do the work

So if you had the opportunity, that's how you'd treat the country?

Police and army work na the same?

Instead of you to just leave it at using advanced equipment, train and provide maybe enough resources for the military to work with, you dey hear dey talk this kind thing this morning.

Na wa o

Foresight55:
Good night bro. But you just leave in the beginning of the season.

Maybe na Man UTD fan. E don already owe 500k and with the way e dey see Man UTD, baba lost all hope.... Chai

Ó máà sè o

labake1:
No but some will still be trying

Na pipu wey even their mama dey call dem suffer head like Mr Eazy...

According to them, that's called, fighting for what they love. Children of perdition wey full life to spoil God blessed unions and unions wey God no even know about no be here.

SyrusdeHansome:
Nigeria is slowly becoming a crime scene. Any country that's as debased as Nigeria won't last long. Nigerians are just too wicked, that's why I find it very funny when they always come up with the excuse that other countries hate them because of jealousy. What are they jealous of Nigeria for? Is it in the fact that we can't govern ourselves? Is it in the fact that 95% of us are so corrupt that nobody cares about the future of the country anymore? Everybody wants to cash out from the system. They want to be rich very quick and they take this debased character to other pple's countries thinking others will stomach their idiocy. South Africans and Ghanaians, pls punish any Nigerian that is culpable of corrupt practices in your country. Punish and depot them cos they don't deserve to be in a working country built by other pple's sweat. I'm done making excuses for this country.

If you're Nigerian and you too have thoughts like these, do you not think other Nigerians feel the same?

The reason we can't govern ourselves, don't you know it? The reason wickedness is becoming rampant in the land, have you given thought to the cause? And hey, the reason citizens like you and the rest of us don't like the country and have little or zero care of the future of such a country, give it a little more thought. When you get answers to all these, you'll unde6why even nairaland will ban or suspend your account if you try to rally the masses to wake up and fight. You'll understand why many do not even have the time to worry about the future of Nigeria as the weapon called poverty has so shackled the mindset of the people, they prefer to eat themselves instead of to fight for a better future.

It all stems from a root cause. And do not ever think such ailments are easy to combat as the stakeholders are not only in our land but also outside, powerful ones.

I never chop, you say make I go fight. Especially with ordinary hand against person wey carry knife, carry gun, still get bomb join. No be suicide be that? This is the reality why many of us won't get up and do the needful. That's especially why those like and I who resent the status quo can do nothing. But pulling resources together and systematically bringing down the system can be possible.

I typed tooany words to see if Seun bot go attack me again. As most times, if you type words like the ones I just did, na straight one hour ban with the post deleted immediately so two eyes no go see am. Even with technology, we're still somehow shackled. I get ideas to destroy all these but you no go fit stomach my barbaric ideas, as I like uprooting everything and scapegoating some. You know, kill the goats to warn the dogs kinda thing abi how that adage be sef.

Abegi

MichaelSokoto:
wat does tuface actually want?

As in, wat is his true mission on earth ni obodai?

That's for him to know or maybe not know.

But oftentimes, some of us just live for today and damn the rest.

Philosophical matters like that no concern anybody papa.... As long as we like what we do and experience in life, it's all good... 🫶

US will continue to fight to achieve "permanent peace"?

Can someone tell these pretenders that the way the situation is "permanent peace" can only mean total erasure of the parties involved.... ?

SMH

Adexgentle005:
Can you give this your advice to your sister ? Some of just talk without sense . Don’t use this brain train a child o.

Of course not.

I too support his talk and I support yours too but listen, that's just how life is....

In every village, there's often a mad person but no one prays for the mad person to be from their own family. So the elders said...

Existence and varieties be like our presido and amala. Just because one person or even a hundred persons persevered and struggled to make ends meet without doing things society frowns upon (but mostly secretly engages in) does not mean the whole of existence will do the same. Everyone has their experiences and path.

Let them walk it and as the other people said, unless she come complain for you, you have no business talking down on her. Especially when she no kill or thief.

You might think all these is just a sign of moral degradation but no, it's just people facing reality and calling things as they are.

Ehen....

No be politics of tribe and padi padi una dey run since say na democracy?

Abegi...

Never had one with the problem.


But I know a lady that always happens to have bad breath each morning. Gods, me no dey even shy tell her to go brush before she talk to me. Although, it's always in a way she'll laugh and try to put the gutter in my face.

And na still this werey dey refuse to kiss me each time I ate snake meat.....

Inside life sef.... Smh

Softmirror:
So it seems. Are you aware Benjamin Kalu has dropped the indignation bill he proposed.

You really do not even understand what I'm talking about here.

Forget abeg. Forget

mrkings84:
Thunda faya you and that your national anthem....

As if e get who national anthem epp

I wonder o.

Na national anthem dem dey carry for head when dem and their rubbish character no fit make any citizen dey proud. How person wan take serious go learn anthem when we no even know whether we like the country.

Pikin wey the papa and mama no dey take care of am, and e dey see say dem get money and dey chop life for outside, how that pikin wan take like the house e come from? Na to even run comot e go dey pray for....

Awón time wasters.

Òní yéyé

Natbrowny:
EVEN WITH MY EVIL UNCLES. I STILL GRADUATE.

Maybe the uncles actually want make u graduate b4 dem begin operation

One said bride price just increased
Mtchewwww. Maybe na one of those gender warriors o. Men are scum gang

The mumu child never see anything....

Lwkmd 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Softmirror:
Na him you come here dey comment? No be waste of your time be dat?!

Fashola is spot on.

So I no suppose mention am if the every government dey use mumu matter dey waste time when serious issues full ground?

True true, na total waste of our time.

Masses ehn.

See national interest o...

If this is not a waste of valuable but scarce time and resources, I do not know what else is.

And masses werey dem has carried it on their head.....

Wonderment

PRINCESSFCFANSs:
But ya Made it in the end


just be good in all ya do



Princess Faith Chukwuamaka

Badt people and their fans will be like...

You say wetin?

aikyg:
Thank you Charly boy for all you did for entertainment in Nigeria and also for putting Lagos state on the entertainment map.

If trouble making skits follow for entertainment, na Charles Oputa first start am for here...

I remember some of his actors getting slapped, chai

Asari talk true sha... But wetin concern is?

Ah, abi na the people wey stop illegal business go blackmail people wey wan been do am before.

This story get K-leg...

Please tell, unless a threat to their life, what are they using to blackmail these "righteous" group and who are the blackmailers. Talk or forever remain the liar that you are.

Wickedfact:
Lagos is not Charley Boy's region. They kill thieves and kidnappers in Lagos. Go and ask Simon Ekpa.
The last time they killed 9 kidnappers in Lagos, they were from Charley Boy's region and Ekpa was crying that they were wasting Biafrans in Lagos.

I already said whatever it is I want to say on the matter...

Simon Ekpa was never a serious person even Charles Oputa...

oluseyiforjesus:
40 character is making comments boring
I Don't even knw d reason for this
Well on the topic
Not everyone dat Japa will make it but abroad is still better

Making it means different things for different people...

Riding on the words Action and Congress won't save you guys. We've seen the kind of action all you guys are known for. Create a new group, sabotage and destabilize another while secretly supporting another. Then jump ship.

E no hard to read una character

Wickedfact:
That place was called Pedro Bus Stop before Charley Boy. Today, it is Badoo Bus Stop.

With time, even Charley Boy will call it Badoo bus stop.

Yes then "Badoos" will take over the territory, snatching handbags and "obtaining" phones.

See wetin a government dey take serious... Like children throwing a tantrum.


Just like Jesu Kristi talk.... Ya house has been left to you... So do as you like, even if na anyhow...

doublecross:
nairaland is a useless website! supported the oppressor party in the last election

You seem to forget it's somebody's business. Whatever works best in bringing in osusu will always take first place...