₦airaland Forum

Aigbofa: It is obvious you cannot fault the Oba's message, what then is left for a non thinking animal, other than to do what comes naturally to him, which is to attack.

Aigbofa: He was referring to dogs and baboons like you. We are waiting for the promised epic battle between you animals, but please stay away from Yorubaland.

patriot2: Come on, no body with half a brain will be using the identity of someone he killed for over twenty years. The supreme rule in crime is that the criminal always tries to run as far as he can from the evidences.
He probably bought the documents from an igbo man who previously tortured and killed the owner. The poor Yoruba man was surely unaware of the faith of the owner, he probably thought these were the best fake documents ever.

Leyelyzo: So according to your myopic sense of reasoning, Tafawa Balewa is unmodernize? The man that spends a good years of his life abroad, schooled abroad, speaks good English, understand English life style and culture, travelled far and wide and meets with a large number of world leaders, is unmodernize because he sat on the floor with his children? What he did is called being proud of your own culture and norms.
Btw how modernize is your father?

Abubakar Balewa was born in Bauchi, the son of a Bageri Muslim district head in the Bauchi divisional district of Lere. He started early education at the Koranic School in Bauchi and like most of his contemporaries, he studied at the Katsina College for further education and soon acquired his teaching certificate. He returned to Bauchi to teach at the Bauchi Middle School. In 1944, along with a few learned teachers from the north, he was chosen to study abroad for a year at the University of London's Institute of Education. Upon returning to Nigeria, he became an Inspector of Schools for the colonial administration and later entered politics. He was elected in 1946, to the colony's Northern House of Assembly, and to the Legislative Assembly in 1947. As a legislator, he was a vocal advocate of the rights of northern Nigeria, and together with Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, who held the hereditary title of Sardauna of Sokoto, he founded the Northern People's Congress (NPC).

lari03: Rail system plans are under way,but that will take all the governors to commit themselves. It was the same Kayode Fayemi who spearheaded the meeting of western governors to work out the modalities of a rail system from lagos to delta.
The airport may seem premature now, but the governor really wants to use tourism as a revenue source for the government. if the feasibility studies come good,then nothing will stop them if the funding is available.

kodewrita: Disclaimer: Am Yoruba

Frankly speaking, NL insults aside, We can all survive without each other. Yes, the first few years might be rocky for all but we'll adapt. Dont make assumptions. I rarely comment on such obviously tribal threads but I notice certain arguments are regularly marshalled anytime tribal arguments occur on NL.

I really dont see the average yoruba man panting after other tribes, it just wont happen. We'll definitely miss you ( same as you'll miss us too).

Besides, the loss will be on all sides.

Its a fact that the Igbos would lose access to western markets ( though they'll still survive nontheless).
Emotions would also be quite raw in the aftermath of a breakup and this will definitely affect any and all assets they might have acquired in the west pre-breakup ( I am not advocating this but the greedy among my people and the aggrieved will do so).

Besides a breakup will force you to face squarely many of the problems you might have been able to ignore by virtue of the nigerian status quo ( Erosion, Human capital issues ( people choosing hustling instead of finishing school), Other social issues ( cant think of any at the moment)).

Contrary to popularly held belief, we are not cowards but we take calculated risks. In the event, that we can achieve a breakup with minimal risk/loss, expect us to take action. That we dont get inflamed every time there is a clash is because the military era is now a more distant memory. Hausa or Ijaw attacks shortly after the military era would have attracted instant retaliation but the more the years pass, the more the yoruba mellow again until something comes to rile us up again. We are a calm people and I would want us to remain as such. If the other two national tripods ( Hausa, Igbo) choose to be hotheads pulling in different directions, we should be able to keep the pot from falling by being the calm tripod. THATS WHO WE ARE.

Bad sides: As a tribe, I see the Yoruba as willing to let others take the punishment if possible except we see others as being deliberately acquiescing to unfair conditions ( subsidy riots for example). which still falls under the calculated risks attitude.

''Pat Utomi reacting to Ango Abdullahi:
With the prevailing security situation in this nation, I am not sure that it is beneficial to talk of dividing the country. Would it not be best to consider the option of a National Conference where all of Nigeria's ethnic nationalities can seat together and decide of their own free will how they would want to live together in peace and justice rather than an outright split? PU''http://www.facebook.com/Utomi

ow11:
I'll have to assume you're not romeo. So what is tribalistic about the post you highlighted? or you just reach for your keyboard and type balderdash at will or you simply do not understand reported speech. choose one . . and give me the reason for your answer.

ow11:
@romeo

So the Spanish police have finally released you from the slammer. Where are you now? Gibralter? or maybe Cape Verde.

The poster clearly pasted an article calling for the renaming of PH,most probably to Igwe Ocha. Now I was wondering if PH problems will be solved by renaming it Igwe Ocha or that he was trying to re-enforce the claim YOU and FSU tried to do some months ago.

Now the poster clearly is trying to say that renaming PH would give it its own identity. Which is a good thought but can't really do much because PH is home to so many people from diverse backgrounds and there would be no more appropriate name than what it is currently called. Read through debosky's post and you will understand why this thread is inappropriate.

However, you have decided to go down the path of name calling when you have nothing to contribute. I would try to restrain myself from replying to any further rants from you because I expect another hail on unnecessary slur from you.

Anyone want to bet? this dude will swear some more. . .