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Its only the noise of those jogging in the early morning many people hear, they never really know the kind of efforts go into those activities they see or the caliber of men those activities require and eventually produce
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I had just had the fortune of watching a rendition of "Olomo lo l'aye" by the #HearWord troupe, and I cried. Not the river tears of phantom realizations, but that type where the entirety of your inner being is warmed up and the tears stay just above your eyelids waiting for repeated blinks to drop. I barely recognized the face of one of them, Mrs. Joke Silva, and I certainly have never met any of them in my life, but I am grateful for the light they bear.
I am most grateful to this crew not only for the rendition in my Language, which obviously made it more personal, but more importantly because they give me hope once again that our society may not finally fall into the endless abyss of humanity collapse.
They have by their artistry shown again that which I have repeatedly said, that we started losing our way as a people the day we started losing our women.
Women were the cornerstone of our cultural development and societal growth. They were the strength of our morality, the driving force of our commerce and industry, the balance of our politics and the cements of the society. My culture never considered women as weak or as being mere tools for sexual satisfaction and reproductive obligations, we never held women as being incapable of forming or holding opinions, rather women were the deities that took on flesh. Women were revered, nothing happened behind them or without their consent, they were powerful, they were rich, they were feudal lords, were master strategists, were war deciders, renowned spies, great heroes, they were the centre of the Cultural system.
The story of Luwo Gbagida, the first female Ooni of Ife, is a story that in itself says that contrary to the modern anathema that holds women as being too weak for leadership, the ancient Yorubas actually considered women as being too strong, so strong that they became afraid of the strength of Women and chose instead to have the weaker sex rule, men, who at least were dumber as to formation of strategy for societal development and execution of same to the letter.
It seems that it was only on the eve of the long exposure of our people to the masochist individualism of the Europeans that our women started to forget who they were and what power they really possessed, that our women started to relinquish their strength and allowed the seizure of same by the ever pliable men, started to forget that they were deities, greater than kings and thrones, builders of homes and kingdoms, mothers, warriors, economic powers, political catalysts, soul of the society. Of course, some women did not forget, Funmilayo Kuti (Beere) and her Egba women drove out a King and all the men in the town could not say a word. Obafemi Awolowo wrote in "Adventures in Power" how Women in the Western Region approached him and demanded to be allowed to pay tax, stating that men have nothing over them, and least of all, a duty to contribute to the development of the state, no wonder it seems women probably had the right to Suffrage here before a lot of the Western countries.
To therefore see a group of women who have taken back their voices, their rightful power, which they do not even have to fight for but just recognize that it has been theirs all along, and more importantly, to take their power in the rightful context of our culture and not in the pretense of western styled irresponsibility guised in feminism, to be able to happily sing "mothers own the world" in recognition of the role of mothers in whatever characters their children exhibit irrespective of gender, in recognition of the role of mothers in building the right mentality of respect and freedom in both male and female children, in recognition of the fact that we set no bars for men or women here, in recognition of the fact that at the end, the fate of women is the exact fate of the society, that the society can only go as far as women do and are allowed to take it, that the state of womanhood is the state of deitification. That is a thing which warms my heart, that which caused me to shed tears, tears to hope in a better future.
I almost forgot to add that the age mixture of the women in this troupe is just like that place of judgement and deliberations among my people, the "Egbe Olobirin ile", which is a circle of all the women in and associated with a particular family, it is a circle which no man can permeate nor break, it is the place where the secrets of society and its fabrics are handed down from generation to generation, it is the place where all the wisdom in our culture and all the values of are people are transmitted to wives and daughters for preservation and onward transmission, it is the place of judgement and sentencing for all erring males of the family, the open secret of our societal strength.
That our society is now this lopsided while simultaneously this circle of women hardly exists anymore is more than just a coincidence, that the #HearWord are also taking their stance in unison of women across all ages is not a mistake either. Thank you once again for saying the truth about us, just like your mothers and those before them, you are now our salvation, our light and our hope; to shed us of the cloak of bestiality which we have since put on as amnesia of our values, to lead us unto the path of truth once more, the path we once walked with elegance when these lands were of the wise.
Thank you #HearWord.

Ejadike:
Is there Yoruba dictionary?

Yes there are. There are even many variants, both in soft and hard copies. You can also download Yoruba dictionary apps (although I find them less reliable)[color=#990000][/color]

In any case, the budget is not an ordinary Bill, and it cannot originate from the Legislature, but it is a Bill nonetheless, to which Section 4 of the Constitution would still relate [color=#000099][/color]

I have written extensively on this Topic with relevant citation of the Nigerian Law... Feel free to read it up at https://bolarinwamorakinyo./

CONSTITUENCY PROJECTS AND THE CONSTITUTION...
by MORAKINYO Bolarinwa, Esq.

The recent daring and double daring between the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El Rufai and the Honourable Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Honourable Yakubu Dogara reminds me of the periods I used to play Ludo against my mother. My mother is a very calculative Ludo player and she mostly wins our games. She starts by allowing you take the first dice roll and then she somehow manages to put all the force of her pieces behind your house, such that any move you make is to her advantage. Of course I almost always cry wolf and scream cheating after she reiterates to me with the game that she is still the wife of my father. The Dogara - El Rufai game might not be far off from my Ludo experience, and I think our dear Mallam Rufai might be the one to cry wolf at the end.

Back to the matter, the members of the National Assembly have institutionalised constituency project and the budgetary vote for same in the country. Forget the display of payslip, the real cash-cow for members of the National Assembly is the plethora of constituency projects they always manage to include in the Constitution.
Indeed, when one Executive member of the House of Representatives was asked to comment on the legality of constituency projects, he simply stated that it is a normal democratic occurrence especially when the Legislator discovers that his constituency is not covered by the original Executive budget, adding, rather sarcastically, that what use is a Legislator who cannot even get a constituency project for his constituency.
While I do not disagree with our Legislators as to need for widespread development, I vehemently oppose the allocation of resources for such programs to and subsequent execution of same by members of the National Assembly. That practice is asinine, unreasonable in all fauna, unconstitutional and against the principles of separation of power.
As far as the law is concerned, this is the legal logic behind budget making and execution; Section 4, particularly at subsection (1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) state that :

(1) The legislative powers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be vested in a National Assembly for the Federation which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
(2) The National Assembly shall have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Federation or any part thereof with respect to any matter included in the Exclusive Legislative List set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Constitution.

NOTE: nothing in this section gives the members of the National Assembly power to execute any Law whatsoever.

Section 81 of the Constitution as cited above goes further to dictate that the budget of the country and everything contained therein shall be a law, it provides as follows:
(1) The President shall cause to be prepared and laid before each House of the National Assembly at any time in each financial year estimates of the revenues and expenditure of the Federation for the next following financial year.

(2) The heads of expenditure contained in the estimates (other than expenditure charged upon the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation by this Constitution) shall be included in a bill, to be known as an Appropriation Bill, providing for the issue from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the sums necessary to meet that expenditure and the appropriation of those sums for the purposes specified therein.

(3) Any amount standing to the credit of the judiciary in the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federation shall be paid and disbursed directly to the National Judicial Council for disbursement to the heads of the courts established for the Federation and the States under section 6 of this Constitution.

NOTE: Nothing in this section gives the members of the National Assembly power to execute the Appropriation Act or any part thereof.

To seal the obvious direction of the Constitution, the Constitution also goes further to state in Section 5 of the Constitution as cited supra that:

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the executive powers of the Federation–

(a) shall be vested in the President and may, subject as aforesaid and to the provisions of any law made by the National Assembly, be exercised by him either directly or through the Vice-President or Ministers of the Government of the Federation or other officers in the public service of the Federation 

(b) shall extend to the execution and maintenance of this Constitution, ALL laws made by the National Assembly and to ALL matters with respect to which the National Assembly has, for the time being, power to make laws.

Note: the Constitution expressly provides that the execution of ALL Laws, including the Appropriation Act, shall be the duty of the President and the Executive.

Of course members of the National Assembly may hide under the "other Officers in the public service of the Federation" clause in 5(1)(a) above, particularly as the 5th Schedule to the Constitution in its subsection (ii)(3) list Public officers of the country to include:

"The President and Deputy President of the Senate, Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Speakers and Deputy Speakers of Houses of Assembly of States, and ALL members and staff of legislative houses".

Nonetheless, the qualifying word in Section 5 (a) of the 1999 Constitution cited supra as far as delegation of Executive powers to anybody is concerned , including Members of the National Assembly, is the phrase "by him".
That means that before a member of the National Assembly can go ahead and execute any Law,including the Appropriation Act in so far as it relates to his constituency, such member of the National Assembly must have obtained either a directive or permission of the President.
In fact, the ideal thing to do is to ensure execution of such constituency project by the Minister to whom the President has delegated power for that purpose. That is why members of the National Assembly perform oversight functions.
It is therefore Illegal for any member of the National Assembly to execute any constituency project contained in the Appropriation Act or National Budget by himself or receive the funds meant for the execution of same by himself without a Presidential directive under any guise whatsoever, it is an aberration of the Constitution and a slap on the face of both democracy and Separation of Powers.
Honourable members of the National Assembly who are busy drilling boreholes, buying grinding machines or even distributing CCTV cameras with monies from the Appropriation Act should therefore be advised to dump their own side to the subversion of our democracy, leave the job for the Ministry of the Government responsible for it, and powerfully follow the execution of the project instead by doing a great job of their oversight function.
The National Assembly cannot keep accusing the Executive of breach of separation of powers if it is also not ready to follow the law, he who comes to Equity must come with clean hands.


Morakinyo Bolarinwa is a Legal Practitioner, passionate poet, avid writer and an Associate Mediator of the National Conflict Management Group.

SmartchoicesNG:
I don't have to educate you. Oau is already doing a half-baked job of your life.....

I'm interested in knowing what University educated you, that University which failed to help you learn that there is nothing called Civil offence except in the Military, that University which failed to help you learn that the remedy for Breach of Promise to Marry is simply a specialized form of remedy for breach of contract, especially where the Promisee had acted upon such promise.

We appreciate your effort, may God bless you all...

Nigerians.... We scream Federalism when money is involved, we don't care about Government structure when it comes to security.
Anyway, I am yet to see anyone ask an actual why, why is it that Fulani herdsmen who had been living among everyone all around the country suddenly became dangerous.
Could it be that some people are actually camouflaging as herdsmen and causing chaos?
And please don't bring all the Fulani dominance stuff up abeg, like Half of the North sef is made up of people that are neither Hausa nor Fulani, minorities that are together more than Fulani people in totality.

Peacefully stealing National cake

adelcole:
I beg jare......

Watin yu dey carry!

Snap Bere, ojee, olomi, aperin and the likes.

Am sure ppl go hiss at u.

Yu dey snap ready-made places.

If u come Lagos nko? Yu go open mouth till butterflies enter your mouth

Idiot na him you be, I'm sure with your 'open mouth' for Lagos, you are still part of those ignorant masses believing the media. I'm sure you have never truly toured Amuwo Odofin LG, or go to snake Island, Ituagan, Mauwedo, and so on, because if you have, you will understand that those areas you mentioned in Ibadan still have hope.

Putting aside your obvious stupidity. May I ask you in your obvious Christian wisdom what it is that is to happen to Christians indigenous to Plateau state, Taraba, Kano, Kaduna, Borno, Benue and Kogi States respectively if you give Boko Haram and their sponsors as you see it their Sharia state

Olubodef:
smh, I am always sad anytime I c u guys coz no benefit in d stuff..... A frnd of mine in Funaab man o war who is a first class student had to leave it because d stuff gonna affect his acada and he even told me dat his result is d best among d Funaab man o war memba

I'm doing this against my better judgement as per your capacity to understand me, dats without insults, but let me educate you a bit.
Benefits in voluntary organisations are determined only by expectations, that is, what do you expect to ain from them? Man O' War as I know ( and I'm an authority in some quarters, I'm from Unit 001 and I commanded it tactically for a long time) has no physical benefit per se, forget about all the body building stuffs they do. The benefits therein are largely intrinsic, that is, behavioural and characteristic. Just like any school setting, you need to focus on your "why", to achieve the maximum benefits. Man O' War is a first hand practical lesson in leadership and followership, it would teach you to know how to obey and how not to obey and know when obedience and disobedience are necessary for societal survival. It would make you tactical, instill in you hindsight, insight, and foresight. It would teach you about power, its nature, its limits, how to hold and lose it, its relationship with authority, popularity and legitimacy. You will learn the use of force and subtility, their limits, and conditions applicable, the benefits are limitless, its just depending on your expectation.
On the issue of Man O war and academics, don't believe all the lies people tell to cover their laziness, Man o War or any other extra-curricular activity at that does not make you fail, you make you fail. I ave seen highly active members of Man O War graduate with first class, a lot of strong 2.1s (and I'm one of them), in my unit a lot of our Statesmen are today Professors, Man O war is not the cause of anyone's academic woes, its their own laziness and self indiscipline that causes it. I'm a living testimony to this. I was a Law student and yet an active member of the club, I made 100% drills from recruit to Statesmanship, and never faced a disciplinary panel for once. ( I doubt if there are up to 10 people in the entire country who currently have that record), that in essence meant absolute dedication, yet I graduated with a very strong 2.1 and am on my way to Law school. I never failed any course and infact never had any result less than a C, and I went to one of the hardest Universities in the country, OAU, and I spent almost my entire time as a student in Man O War, and rose to the top echelon of the club.

chigoizie7:
Did he take other people's belief into consideration? Na only him get naija? To me, that is nonsense, he should not be made a minister because he is self oriented/centered, he is only particular about what he believes and not the plight of the people he is meant to serve. How could he say such a thing? Religious leaders should be paid? On what grounds? Why didn't he clamour for all unemployed graduates to be paid?

Actually, he also mentioned the payment of unemployed graduates and even asked the senate to adopt it as a law. I also don't think he specifically mentioned any religion, religious leaders include Babalawos as well as Imams and Pastors, he even advocated that the Senate should have a chaplain and an imam pray with them for the nation at every sitting. I'm not really comfortable with sponsoring religion with state funds, but I agree with him on placing the burden of national morality and Godliness on the shoulders of religious leaders, afterall they are the ones to whom the politicians run to for prayers and who are yet too cowardly to tell them boldly that stealing state resources is bad, evil and outrightly devilish

I wonder why common men support Politicians when the elite class are in internal conflict, especially conflicts on the grounds of legality, honesty and sincerity. They pose no benefit to them and even go as far as stealing resources meant for the welfare and social care of the common man, I think ordinary men on the street and citizens without affluence should be happy and even encourage more conflict.

For example, some people were busy shouting witchhunting in support of saraki when Saraki's trial news filtered to the media, what! Even if Saraki's trial was politically Motivated, is it not for the benefit f the common man that he has to prve his innocence, that indeed he did not steal resources meant for common men, as much as it is of benefit to Saraki himself if he can prove his innocence as that would boost his political credibility and popularity.

Now again, news of Diezani's arrest in London has hit us, as well as the ransacking and sealing of her house by the EFCC, already some people have started grumbling that why is she being persecuted when people like OBJ and Tinubu are still walking free. Aside that this is a bad argument which avoids the question of her guilt or innocence, are they saying that it is better we let peple who have stolen billions walk free while we throw men who have stolen goats in jail. Why must we be praise-singers for the affluents.

I wonder and wonder over, maybe it is because these common men seek to one day be like these affluents, irrespective of the source of their wealth. Whatever their reasons, only time can truly reveal.

Morakinyo T. Bolarinwa (LLB), Associate Mediator.

Seeing Adebayo Shittu's name on the list of prospective ministers, only brings to mind that patience is a virtue. Ceteris paribus, this man is going to be the next Governor of Oyo State, but the position he is today was supposed to be occupied by Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, but for the latter's impatience.

Adebayo Shittu,a Lawyer who even came from the CPC wing of APC, stood by his party and refused to decamp, even when he contested and lost the Gubernatorial primaries against Governor Abiola Ajimobi gallantly, as against Lanlehin,another Lawyer who came from the ACN wing of APC and decided to decamp when he saw that Ajimobi was still pushing for re-election.

To make matters more Suitable for Bayo Shittu, he is from one of the politically maligned areas of Oyo State, who by the way were the final determinants of the 2015 elections in the state, he is from Saki. Also he contested in the 2011 elections and he is popular in Ibadan for his political slogan, "the Bayo you can trust". His only problem may be that he is a muslim, same as the current serving Governor and he is viewed in some quarters as a religious fanatic, but that is not a problem a lot of propaganda can't solve.

It is therefore heartwarming to see a minister emerge from Oyo State, who is not only popular but is also respected by his people. This is definitely a Change from the previous administration where a political mediocre who couldn't even win her own Senatorial district in the Senatorial elections, in person of Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, was taken as a minister from and for Oyo State.

Therefore, Congratulations to Mr Adebayo Shittu.

Any person like this op who in any form,takes up the defence of Sanusi's action is definetly of a deranged mind and morally bankrupt. Sometimes,I feel there should be a curse on such a crusader that 'may his own daughter suffer be given away at the same age to a man old enough to be her grandfather'. But then again,that would mean subjecting a poor innocent girl to punishment because of her father's imbecillity and stupidity.[/quote]Normally, I wouldn't reply odious comments like yours, but for once I need to break my own rules. You must be an unbelievably stupid megalomaniac, you must be one of those whose medication from the Neuro-Psychiatric centre got finished before the curation of their mental dysfunctionality.

Anyway, in further enlightenment of your disoriented and ignoramus mind, adulthood is characterised by choices, and if its someone's choice to marry a man older than them, its no one's business.

If it is the wealth the rich old men use in getting younger girls, no one is stopping you from making your own money at a young age and getting young girls too.

Stop assuming your pew of morality is the Standard for all, no, that is why Laws exist.

This is not a short piece..

So, the last day of the ninth month of the Two thousand and fifteenth year after the death of Jesus Christ, just another day it seems but for two things, the first being that I got older this month, the other being that my country gets older tomorrow, so before tomorrow comes, I have some things I have to say with the passing age of my country.

One of the news that made rounds this week was HRH,Mallam Sanusi Lamido, Emir of Kano's Engagement to a new bride, a girl who is eighteen years of age and for whom another round of #ChildNotBride campaign had begun online. The events subsequently provoked a response from the eloquent Emir, who offered his own explanation to whoever cared to listen and then casted the rest into the abyss of perpetual self ignorance, advising them though, to make good use of money and buy themselves a brain.

Well, not that it matters anyway, but I would like to give my own opinion of the matter. To start with, I know that under Nigerian Law, an Eighteen years old girl (18) is an adult, who can sue and be sued, she can be imprisoned and sentenced to death if she committed an offence warranting that. Also, under Nigerian Marriage Act, a girl cannot by herself enter into marriage till she's 21, even if she's 18 already, that means, she must obtain the consent of her parents or guardian to do this, a Law which was clearly followed in Sanusi Lamido's marriage. Also, the Engagement would not affect the girl's education as she's proceeding to Cambridge University for her Tertiary Education. Obviously, this is no more a matter of legality, and the public outcry is not to show a law being broken, as it would be hypocritical to say a girl who can be killed for an offence cannot marry, it beats logic, what therefore is the problem people have with this Engagement?, the answer is simple, Cultural Intolerance.

It is funny in this country that everyone claims their own culture is the all in all of acceptable social behaviour, making them intolerant of other people's cultural accepted behaviours. This is the height of folly, every culture in Nigeria always has something which is repulsive to other cultures, we may think its wrong as the Culture of the North allows older men marry younger girls, or maybe we should accept it as their culture as long as it is within the law, our various cultures are not really different, there are cultures in Nigeria where Men send their wives to sleep with their guests as a sign of welcome and acceptance, under my own custom in Yoruba Land, the wife is part of the property of the husband and can not independently his claim properties, in fact she can also be inherited by his successor to properties. We therefore should cease trying to place our own cultures above that of others, it is unbecoming and tainting the beauty in diversity obtainable in our country. Let me cut the long story about that.

The second group of critics are the ones who annoy me the most, they are the ones who keep placing our cultural values on the scale of western ideals. Maybe its time people realise that their is a difference between Educated and Westernised. This is not the west, this is Africa, we have our own moral ideals, and cultural values, we do not try to impose them on the west, why does the west keep trying to make us conform to theirs. Its already taking an African voice in Mugabe to shout "we are not gays" at the UNGA for people to realise we are not finding the pressure from the west to legalise gay marriage funny. Our own moral and cultural opinions do not matter to them, they wouldn't stop Gay marriage because it is against our culture, they wouldn't legalize polygamy because our culture allows it, they wouldn't heed our cultural opinions, why should we heed theirs. It is annoying therefore that people keep judging african actions with western concepts of right and wrong, it is our culture, the west can keep their opinion or change to ours, we don't really care.

All those people forming human rights activists should think well and deep, except if they are now saying that the marriage consent which the girl gave as an adult is invalid, except if they are trying to deny the girl of her choice as an adult, all because of their own concepts of what is right or wrong. For once people should see the broken light in the prism, and see that even the ordinary light they see, has more than seven colours of the rainbow, the world is bigger than their own selfish conceptions.

#Respect_Africa #Educated_not_Westernised #Respect_personal_Liberty
#Congratulations_HRH_MLSII
#Happy_Independence_day

Omambala1:
the Zoo is falling. The blood of the innocent Biafra Children are still crying! Vengeance! Vengeance! And vengeance!

Your brain must be in acute shortage of blood, if not, it should have told you that those are lives being lost, innocent, simple lives of ordinary citizens, there may be someone from your village among the victims. Why do you need to tribalize everything, can't you just be a human with reason for once and forsake tribal affiliations for common humanity

akinyeleaa:
Una just dey make noise say Fulani, Fulani no dey ever ask of ransom joor. 100m for dat matter. Fulani get bank account abi aw dem go take collect the money? and if it was Fulani herdsmen I know, he would have bn killed. There's more to the story joor, Una think say all of us na bolo abi

I tire o, na common sense o, which fulani herdman go get hideout, con still dey demand 100Million. Wetin dey wan even use d money do, mtcheeww, simple sense. Baba na Abductors carry you jare.

Try adducing meanings and ends to the article through inductive logic, it'll all make sense to you then. They are not statements of arguments or attempt at a general rule, the comparison and deductive logic would shield the light of the meanings in the article.

mkbessman:
guy! you're not educated.... a tribalist in this era? you just disgraced yourself..... look at you talking of trust.... Yoruba you say?

pls go and sleep

Wow!, it is obvious how highly educated you must be, if you cannot discern an article written neither as a sword or a shield from those of tribalistic intents. Non of us got our Ethnicity and Country by choice, how we proceed however is by choice. If we choose to let ethnic misunderstandings cripple us all, we are to suffer the consequences. And I'll give everyone an imaginary analysis of what our cultural misunderstandings can achieve later.
By the way, I'm restating my Statement about Yorubas and trust emphatically and without fidgeting. We have faced betrayal by both Easterners and Northerners more than we can continue to count and holding us for the sins of a Man everyone else also betrayed is hypocritical, and through it all, we have learnt to let it go, everyone else should try that too, forgiveness may not be forgetfulness, but its healthier.

kernel504:
Illitracy kills. First of all, Jonathan is not an Igbo man, even at that he didn't give the Igbos any of the 1-4th position in the land, rather he made provision for Yorubas to be speaker 4th position, only for your brother Femi Gbaja... Whatever and West lawmakers to betray the Yorubas, by giving it to Tanbuwal.

Nobody knew/knows Mulikat Adeola, she doesn't command the respect of her people, and she was viewed as largely incompetent and unworthy of Yoruba Leadership, we would rather have nobody than have incompetence to represent us Nationally, Patricia Etteh's issue still haunt a lot of us. Sincerely, as most people from Ibadan who Mulikat Akande Adeola is, the don't know, Jumoke Akinjide is even more popular than her

Aareonakakanfo:
Anyways i blame it on the OP who probably has no knowledge of yoruba people and its history

Honestly the fact that we live together in the same country is the source of all these garbage. we've descended so low to to the extent that we're now exchanging jibes with "tribes" with no relevant history .Obviously the union has benefited you all more because they say "familiarity breeds contempt". originally this shouldn't even be a discussion if the red bastards never merged us together. For heaven's sake we're talking about a yoruba nation with a deep history, language, culture, arts.civilization,religion, literature,medicine. a nation that has fought wars in comparison with some wandering tribe . A nation that has produced some of the greatest artefacts in the history of the black race. you know deep inside you, you feel really good when you're been compared to the Yoruba nation to you its an honor. because you know ordinarily if not for the red bastards you wouldn't even be a topic today

Aareonakakanfo, calm down, there is no need for all these upsetting rant, "aifele kebosi lai renijo".
Moreover, don't elders say 'mowa foniwa', and it goes both ways, this article was written to help others understand us.
And by the way, my knowledge of my history, culture and tradition 'll scare you, detosho is Adetosho, I'm half Prince half Balogun, 'odo mi o le lailai gbagbe orisun'.

kingdom01:
Are you looking for the reasons why igbos hate yoruba?

The number one reason is because of your BETRAYAL & BACK STABBING nature.

Apart from the one Awo did against Ojukwu and the ones that happen in the past.

The most recent one is your betrayal against GEJ a southerner.Everbody knows that this man called Babaonechance will not perform,you still went ahead and voted him.

Don't even say that their is no agreement btw SE\SS and SW,because when SE\SS voted OBJ a yorubaman two times;were there any agreement?

Why do u guys keep mentioning dat Awo/Ojukwu issue. U guys should learn to let tins like dat go. Yoruba people let Ziks betrayal of Awo and Ziks alignment with the North, Ziks collabration with North to send Awo to jail, Aguiyi Ironsi's leaving of Awo in prison to rot, and so on go.
The GEJ issue was simple, the entire SW felt neglected by his government,as there was no visible development here by him, then the unchecked issues of corruption and his seeming indifference to it.
Even before elections, I was in OAU, and I watched Students of all ethnic affiliation carry "GEJ must go" banners, it had to happen, if the SE/SS had presented a better candidate, he migt have had hope, don't forget we voted for GEJ massively in 2011, even at the expense of CAN which controlled our States den, see where that led us, and even Ribadu is nw in PDP.

Lemon12:
All these long Epistle just to give us the Reason ....why Yorubas choose to be Hausas slaves ?

Please, don't even go there. Since the Inception of this country, we had always been in opposition to the North, funny enough, even when every other tribe slept in the same bed with them, read your political history:
1) Awo v Zik+Tafawa+Sultan,
2) Awo v Shagari,
3) MKO v IBB
4) NADECO v Abacha
5) MKO v Abacha
Even when OBJ joined then and wanted to pull us into the same mess, we resisted them, we resisted even OBJ himself, PDP then was practically Northern controlled. So in the modern era, we still had:
Bola Ige v PDP
AD v PDP
ACN v PDP,
APC v PDP
And even with the formation of APC, all the controversy in it is due to resistance of the Northern script some people are tryin to Act in the party.
Funny tho, in all of those Anti-Northern struggle, I don't seem to see vivid names of active contributors outside southwest, especially in the fight for the return of democracy, you all are just talkers. Try repeating your Statement to Fela Kuti, Beko Kuti, Kudirat Abiola or Abraham Adesanya or Gani Fawehinmi, or living ones like Wole Soyinka or Femi Falana. Its better for you when you know what you are saying before you open your mouth to spill out self-embarrassing statements

amaben2020:
Bleep you yellowbar people, we hate your asses

Thank you for your hate, if you can give a reason for it anyway. Nonetheless, feel free to come do business in Lagos, Ibadan or other yellowbar cities, you are highly welcomed.

boboLIL:
I can never be a *tribalist*......I can nva support tribalism....I love every tribe in naija::::::::

This isn't about tribalism, which by the way Chimamanda Adichie says is the real definition of every man, but this is about understanding. How can you relate well with all the tribes in Naija unless you understand their psyche, even the thinking of the least complicated, least educated, most simple, ones of them. Understanding aids communication and unity.

YOU HAVE TO READ ALL TO UNDERSTAND IN FULL...
OK guys, lemme explain somethings to you.
1) Hausa people had tried an invasion of the SW before, it didn't end well for them, we may not be violent, but we are skilled at self defence. Its not just you guys against them.
2) Every Yoruba is bred with knowledge of the perpetual enmity with Hausa's, infact an average Yoruba thinks of them as idiots (ask why they are called Abokis in SW)
3) Every Yoruba knows that Igbos are less of enemies and more of competitors to us. But every Yoruba also thinks of Igbos as prone to being dubious and disloyal, especially when they are set to benefit from it.
4) Due to the aforementioned, Yorubas prefer sometimes to deal with Hausas (whose state of enmity with them is sure), than with Igbos, who may be their friends but who may betray their trust, something Yoruba people value a lot, and know at least they cannot give to Hausas.
5) Be sure that like Igbos, Yoruba people also have a cause for feud with Hausas, one dat even goes beyond the creation of Nigeria, the place called Ilorin. No true Yoruba does not know of the story of Ilorin, Aare Afonja and Alimi.
6) Yoruba people are generally the most welcoming in this country, you may dispute it, but I've been to most other regions in this country, save NE. Thus we welcome Hausas as much as we welcome Igbos, Idomas, Efiks, Igalas, Tivs, etc. You are all welcomed in our Lands ( we don't like that no mans land talk).
7) Due to Pre-colonial trading, a lot of lingual similarities have occured between Hausas and Yorubas, thus in modern life, it may tell why Yorubas seem to understand Hausas and their Language/Culture faster and better than Igbos and their language/Culture. Its not for animosity.
This is subject to dispute, but an average Yoruba person,like Artisans and Traders and co, is highly interested in politics and governance, but doesn't really give a damn about either the Unity or Seperation of Nigeria, although when asked most would reply that "we are better off on our own".
9) The above Stated reason is why not too many Yoruba people go out of the SW for residence and those that do so are considered doing it at their own risk.
10) Yorubas are benefiting the most from the fracas between Hausas and Igbos, as they are able to make both bring their resources meant for other parts of the country to the SW, due to their non-partisan accommodation. Why do u think SW is the least poor region in the country, and having the highest per capita standard of living (fact from Nigerian Bureau of Statistics)