₦airaland Forum

Kagawa10:
First class Oba? Lol! Name the Oba na.. Shebi you don see Ado-Akure abi? Pele o.

Anyway, there are no Bini descendants in Ondo state! Abi na by force? No be only Igbira, you would soon see igbe!

Actually, there are a few families in Akure, probably numbering no more than a couple of hundred people in total, who are of historic Benin origin. Their number is so small that the overwhelming majority of Akure indegenes has probably never heard of them or their story. I am not surprised you knew nothing about them.

Their fore parents were migrants who stayed behind in Akure. Nothing more than that.

taoheedoriloye:
Good but... We can't neglect them, kwara is even more of yoruba than ondo.

This is the type of unnecessary divisive tendency the Governors talked about.

And how on earth is Kwara more Yoruba than Ondo

I read this same 'news' of Tinubu buying a private jet on nairaland some months ago. That news was attacked as false.

The Op is resuscitating the fake news again.

I don't believe governors in the Tinubu camp attend APC's NWC meetings or any meeting called by Oyegun.

With Lagos & Osun sending their deputies for this meeting, this is another way of them sending a message that they don't accord much regard to Oyegun's regime.

It's difficult to see how APC can hold together going into 2019 elections. The tensions in the party will likely explode during their various primaries.

APC has too many camps.

It will be several years yet, may be decades, before the bitumen in Ondo state will be mined. The cost of mining it is so high, it's simply not viable presently.

As for the coastal road to Lagos, and all the so-called free trade zone by the coast... it's all pie in the sky. These projects are unlikely to take off.

Instead of unattainable big-ticket projects like these, the government should focus on smaller, more realistic & achievable projects.

This man wanted to be Governor at all cost but he had and continue to have zero plan for his State.

Also, he sounds uncultured when he talks. The remarks about Lagos, though largely true, are crude.

Bitumen oil extraction was not viable when oil was $100, so which company is going to invest given current and projected oil price.

He says federal govt should come and build a sea port. Don't see the point of another commercial port in Ondo given that Lagos ports are only 45mins away by sea. If Fed govt wants to build another port, Akwa Ibom is more deserving.

The man lacks ideas.

Been planning on a farm for about a year and I'm at the point of execution.

Last week, it occurred to me that I'd not seriously considered my personal security when visiting the farm.

The risk of kidnap (arranged by my farm workers ) or just being cornered by herdsman, cultists etc on an isolated farm looks so real that I now have a serious doubt about going ahead

Security is a massive issue in this country right now. It's chaos everywhere.

A lot of awful things are happening on Nigerian roads...but most go unreported in the media.


Unless a trip is absolutely essential and there is no option, I don't embark on it.


Weddings, social engagements, even most business trips outside my State, I no longer attend.

This is a very dangerous country.

Giving kids sugar-laden drinks and snacks such as biscuits, are ways of storing up health problems for them in the future -
Diabetes. Heart diseases. Feeble peni.s etc

Why would parents give their kid lucozade, bobo, biscuits, ribena daily

If my sister runs out of corn flakes for her kids, she panics. It's an emergency. Na so she go they run around anyhow to go buy

I suggested boiled yam + fried egg for the kids. She said - my kids can't eat that o...haba, for breakfast?

I don't get it.

If you're going to park in a parking lot owned by the state, I think it is fair that you pay for the service.

People can't ridicule State govts for lazily relying on oil money, and yet when the govt takes appropriate steps to generate revenue, cry foul.

Any restructuring will need to be approved by the Senate & House of rep., the same people benefiting the most in the current situation. How's that going to happen?

As Americans say, turkeys don't vote for Christmas.

I tell you, Nigeria can feel like a prison with no way out.

Fake statement probably issued by Hausas or Igbos posing as Yorubas to give the impression of a nation-wide crises.

I suspect most Yorubas are not exercised by the current Hausa/ Igbo tiff. As usual, they'd believe 'it would be resolved' hence no need to stress Rightly or wrongly, that's the Yoruba way.

I often field requests from foreign clients for information which I should be able to obtain on a government website, but these websites are rarely functional or have any tangible information beyond endless photos of Ministers and civil servants attending functions.

When these clients persist, I send someone on the long trip to an MDA or Ministry in Abuja, for face to face enquiry. Often, Ministry staff have no answer to basic questions and are unaware of anyone who can help. These fruitless overnight trips easily cost over N150,000.

I dont know the way out for Nigeria.

OP's experience is so rampant right now.

I have 2 married young women on my case right now. Both are outwardly very responsible & comfortable.

What's going on with today's women.

The idea that Tinubu, Aregbesola and 80 yr old Chief Akande would sit down to plot the man's death seems far fetched.

As for the trio's absence from a rather quick islamic burial, there could be legitimate reasons. That the Governor was abroad at the time of the man's death may be pure coincidence.

If, as Mr Fani Kayode suggests, the deceased was not in the same camp within APC as Tinubu, and if they were not close friends, he may not feel the need to rush down from Lagos for his burial. He may choose to visit his family at a later date if he wishes.

As for Baba Akande, is it not true that in some parts of Yoruba land, the elders are often excused from attending the funeral of much younger persons?

It is possible the man's death is not natural, but pointing accusing fingers at Tinubu & co is ridiculous.

Godprotectigbo5:
but okro is not yoruba food, dats ibo food soup even the name originated from ibo language

Ofcourse Okra is not an Igbo food. It is eaten around the globe, and I believe it may have originated in Asia.

Yorubas have been eating ila (okro) for ages.

The true Yoruba ila alasepo is quite an extraordinary food. Absolutely sumptuous and fantastically tasty.

Until about 30 years ago, Yoruba Christians were mostly Anglicans and Methodists (Church of England connection), and to a lesser extent Christ Apostolic Church, and white garment.

Now Redeem and others have taken over.

Catholicism has always been very marginal in the West.

Ganduje met Atiku last week, and the picture released on social media showed Atiku bowing to Ganduje.

Today, Ganduje meets Tinubu, and surprise surprise, Tinubu 'bows' to Ganduje.

On what basis would an ex Vice president and ex Governor bow to Ganduje

I believe these 'bows' are created by Ganduje's media team trough software manipulation and then quickly circulated on social media to create the impression their Oga is in charge.

Same happened with the infamous and fake Buhari/Tinubu picture.

That's why the true picture of these encounters in neswpapers do not indicate one party bowing to the other.

I notice also that Mr Melaye's personae dominates the senate.

He has a comment on every topical issues and talks as if to dare any other senator to contradict him. And they never do.

He has also rendered the Deputy Senate president irrrlevant. If Saraki is not available to comment, Mr Melaye must comment.

APC is a very strange party.

It is incredulous that Mr Dino Melaye alone appears to command more influence in the Senate than President Buhari.


Also how can a Senate President from the President's own party orchestrate the latter's defeat (Efcc guy) in the Senate 2 or 3 days after the Senate President was pictured meeting the President at Aso Rock

They have scant respect for Buhari & they, particularly, Mr Melaye feel so confident about everything.

Every one seem to accept the driver's account that his Oga jumped into the water. Is his account corroborated by passers by?

I hope the police keep an open mind in the investigation and not rule out other possibilities.

Was the guy killed before hand and dumped in the water or even disposed off elsewhere?

His car should be impounded and subjected to forensic investigation. Does Nigerian police have the capacity to do it

Reports out last week indicate that US shale oil production is rebounding vigorously.

This will put further downward pressure on the price of crude, as we saw last week when the price fell below $50 per barrel for the first time in a few months.

If Opec producers, particularly Saudi Arabia decide to increase their production in order to defend their market share, oil price could easily tumble to below $45 .

This will reduce Nigeria's earnings and give the foreign currency sharks the upper hand as against the CBN, as far as Naira value is concerned.

In just over 3 weeks, the CBN appears to have spent over $500 million dollars going to war with the so called speculators.

The question is, does the CBN have the appetite & a dollar war chest deep enough to sustain a long war of attrition with the black marketeers?

I doubt it.

It is not easy to defeat the market in this situation.

Apple has over 60,000 employees globally.

Only about 10 of these are Nigerians, the 7th most populous country on the planet?

This is the true story of Nigeria in many ways. Big country, with little to show for its size and endowment.

[quote author=Charly68 post=54328928]Any man that marries a temperamental woman has signed his death warrant .[/quote

It's mistaken to think only so - called 'temperamental' people do things like this.

All humans have the potential to overeact in a way that leads to an unforseen consequence.

Think of that time when, you, a supposedly cool, calm, and 'collected' person overreacted in a way that, looking back now, you still wonder that you could have reacted the way you did.

Just pray that any future overeaction by you does not result in this type of consequence.

Probably a long suffering wife.

Nothing good could ever come from grabbing a knife to use in a fight. She should have refrained from it.


She must face the law, but I hope the judge will show some mercy & give her a reduced sentence if found guilty.

Very unfortunate for all concerned - the deceased, their baby, and the perpetrator.

Whatever the outcome of the School's/Police investigation into the lecturer, the female students and his accomplices are likely to end up in big trouble.

They may be rusticated.

They may also face charges of kidnap. This is a very serious charge, which, if followed through could mean several years in jail.

They may also face civil law suit for multi millionaira damages.


It's difficult to see any positive in the girl's actions.

There's also the widely held misconception that the soil down here is more 'fertile.'

It depends on what you mean and in what respect. Also there's more to farming than just soil.

Because of heavy rains, our soils are often too acidic - the north does not have this problem on the same scale.
Our soil has a higher sand content that the soil in the north. This is a disadvantage.
[color=#000099]The very small difference between day and night time temperature[/color] down south makes life difficult for a lot of crops e.g tomatoes and many others. Though many parts of the north have higher day tempratures, night temperature can also fall dramatically. Plants like tomatoes and many others prefer this to the 'suffocating' conditions in the humid South.
High Humidity in the South is another downer. Most crops do not do as well under conditions of extremely high humidity.
Labour is more readily available and probably cheaper in many parts of the north than the south.


I am not trying to discourage people! I think these are valuable factors a Southern farmer should take into consideration. A clever thing to do is to try and grow your crops when it is not in season in the north, so you can have less competition in the market from northerners. Or produce a superior crop and sell in distinct market outlets.

Just because something will grow down south does not mean the environment here is best for it to be grown on a commercial scale.

You have to be selective.

Cocoa for example will probably grow in Taraba, but a Taraba cocoa farmer will face far more challenges growing it than someone in Ondo or Akwa Ibom and so he will never compete in terms of yield.

Conversely, a water melon farmer in the South realistically has no more that a 6-7 month window to grow watermelon. And he will face far more fungal, bacterial and environmental challenges than his compatriot in the north. The guy in the north will almost always get a more reliable crop of watermelon with less effort than the guy down south.

Basically, parts of the north has inherent competitive advantage in tproducehe cultivation of several crops, but that's not a reason not to grow some in the south provided you're prepared for a lot of ups and downs including frequent losses to diseases.

Universities and research institutions in the South should be doing extensive research to adapt more and more of these crops to the climate down here, but they do not.

Within the past year both the Ooni of Ife and Alaafin of Oyo have gone to see Tinubu.

To have the two most powerful Yoruba kings come to see you is in many ways extraordinary.

Obasanjo was at the Alaafin's palace just last week. So why didn't Alaafin just ask his Secretary to summon Tinubu to come & see him

Tinubu is a legend.

Amosun, Fashola and Fayemi are small boys who have zero political influence beyond their state boundaries.

The interesting aspect of this saga is the police involvement.

From the narratives, this appear to be an entirely contractual matter. No crime was commited or likely to be comitted.

The Police have no power or authority to arrest the singer or even get involved. The music company should've gone to court & file a civil claim for breach of contract.

If the arrested singer has a good legal team, both the Police and the music company that caused his arrest will face a civil claim that runs into tens of millions & he will have a good chance of winning.

Just over 2 years to the end of an 8 yr term, the governor wants to borrow 65 billion repayable over 10yrs (2027).

I suspect a sizeable proportion of this money will go towards funding 2019 elections.