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I concur. Tinubu is working

easzypeaszy:
Hahahahahahaha u fit spend 80k for trnsport monthly to work for Rivers?
U fit leave for a room of 90k per year wey na Nylon una dey use poo go towey as toilet no dey?
U dey play wt Lagos abi
In Lagos u can live der for 10yrs and not knwin more dan ur office to ur house reason be say dey no dey run 2tins togthr fr Lagos
Nigeria movies don wash all of una head thinkin Lagos is som heaven...Even VGC no get water for cookin...dey play

Adding VGC to that list makes your argument false. VGC remains the only organized and planned town with pipe borne water in the whole of Lekki.

lendahand:
you forgot shortbread biscuit. Nasco products still original till date, compare their cereals to tasteless kellogs.

What of Baba Dudu, and Dankwa.

The bread is still sold in Mile 2 down to Iyana-Iba. Ghana boys still hawk it at night.

lawani:
Have you ever been to PH? A large percentage if not all taxi drivers, a large percentage of oil workers, federal civil servants, artisans and etc then business owners. I have friends and family permanently based in PH. You may not know it but PH has more Yoruba by percentage than Lagos have Igbos. Yoruba scattered around Nigeria is almost double the population of Igbos scattered in thesame way. Check people on Quora by Nigerian city name and you will agree. Now, the population of Ekiti will be at least 3.5 million to be modest. If Igbos are up to that in Lagos then you will agree that Hausa are also up to that. SS without Igbos will be up to that and NC will be up to that. NE will be at least one third, foreigners will be more than that and the total number of non Yoruba will be around 18 million. Can you now see why your figure is wrong?

Who dash the Yorubas the bogus figures you accord them in PH? In this my PH or another one. To even compare the number of Igbos in Lagos to the number of Yoruba in PH is the height of delusion. Even your fellow Yorubas will be laughing at you. You can easily count the Yorubas in PH who are too insignificant and lesser than even the Ibibios than the Igbos in Lagos who dominate several Lagos LGA's in population.

Interesting topic that never got to front page despite the heavy and factual research done. @mods like Fergie001 and Mynd44 the ball is still in your court.

One of the most boring programme that comes up by 4:00PM on NTA 2 Channel 5 Lagos. Worst still, the intro song "Speak Out, Speak Out, Speak Out for all to hear" will just come up from nowhere to cut short our Voltron cartoon we do watch at that time. Like I literally hated that programme then. Once the show starts with school children debating their nonsense, I and my younger brother go just carry our Kite and locate our friends to test our pilot skills on thread .
This was the period when Naija was very boring with a few channels like NTA, LTV and DBN boring our lives in Lagos. Abacha was in power by this time.

kolexy:
Jonathan's Chief of Staff was the former Edo State Deputy Governor, Mike Oghiadome. He brought in Gen Arogbofa to appease South Westerners in preparation for the 2015 election. Recal there was no Yoruba man or woman amongst top 6 important positions in the country. In addition the SW only had 1 full Minister (Akinwunmi Adesina), the rest were Minister for State.

You lots keep repeating these lies that have been debunked. You can only fool the Gen Alpha's not us who witnessed Jonathan's government.

See link to get educated and stop the shenanigan, it's now outdated as your brother Tinubu and his friend Buhari did worst than any Government in power when it comes to tribal appointments.

https://www.nairaland.com/7846374/igbo-domination-goodluck-jonathans-government

AareGaa:
Ibos ruined Jonathan's government

Nope Igbos were the best thing that happened to GEJ's government same as OBJ and Yarádua. Something Calamity Buhari and Disaster Tinubu never fathomed, any wonder they will continue to fail with their tribal government.

Holybwoy:
This is an opinion.

Although I cannot do anything to influence the coach's decision on the team's setup and formation in tomorrow's must win or draw match against the AFCON host, as a Nigerian tired of subpar performances and hoping to see our nation go beyond the group stage and even lift the trophy, a decade after achieving that feat, I feel I have a singular responsibility to suggest a lineup and tactics that will work in case anyone cares to listen.

I watched Ivory coast's game in the opening match and like every other Nigerian, I watched Nigeria's game too.

Ours was a disappointing result and only a win or draw versus the host nation is acceptable.

Of course, ivory coast will not be here to play all 90 mins long.

The bright side of our game against equitorial guinea was the inclusion of certain players who were fun to watch and gave the game any semblance of life- Osimhen, lookman, iwobi and Aina.

Cote d'Ivoire wants to win and they are going to press high all game long. The only technical player we can rely on to give iwobi a helping hand in creativity and chance conversion is senior man kelechi.

I was surprised he was an unused substitute in Nigeria's opening match and that must be down to favouritism.

Senior man as he's popularly called has the rythm, can read the intensity of a game intellectually and create spaces with his skills and left foot. Lookman can run, Aina can cross, onyeka can soak pressure, Osimhen can score, iwobi can create and pass but who can open space?

Think of Gabriel Jesus and his duties at Arsenal. That's a similar role to what we can endow on kelechi and trust him to execute it to perfection.

My ideal formation is a 4-1-4-1

Aina- Ekong- seyi-sanusi
Onyeka
Simon-iwobi-kelechi-lookman
Osimhen

Kelechi plays right behind Osimhen and we can have a good game ladies and gentlemen.

Source: Temitope Steve from x

Adding Zaidu Sanusi and Simon to the starting eleven shows you didn’t watch the last match. Those two were among the guilty parties that made us drew that match. Simon has no business benching Chukwueze and Sanusi is too limited to be benching Bassey. The coach might have learnt this bitter lesson about those two.

Temi2468:
Dem no sabi ke!

This ones will beat Nigeria blue black with what I saw them play tonight.

Let's be sincere, Nigeria is a thin line away from being an underdog.

Open mouth dey yarn dust. It appears you didn’t watch Nigeria match. The team didn’t play as bad as people make it to be. It’s just that the Super Eagles usually enter every AFCON tournament as favorites. Despite how low we played, I still see the Super Eagles as favorite in this years AFCON. That redemption will start from Cote D Ivoire match. The Equatorial Guinea team isn’t a push over and have one of the most coordinated defense with a great Keeper in this tournament.

People should stop underrating this Super Eagles team but rather support them.

Evboesi:
the Boy might very well be a Yoruba. Going through all his posts will give you an insights on that.


But i wish to correct something nothwothstanding your point if they are igbos or not. You see the names ovia, Irabor, Isibor are pure Bini names and have solid interpretable meanings in Benin language. Do you hear me. Although the argument you gave for ovia is intelligent, i will take that the Igbo ovia has a meaning independent of that of the Benins but not isibor and Irabor,Otabor those are pure Bini names with very sensible relatable meanings, you cannot give a sensible interpretation to it in Igbo, i dare you. The fact that the tribe Ika is heavily influenced by Benin is not even under contest. When you check the Archives of past kings of agbor, when you check the namings of several areas in agbor, it gives credence to this fact, anyone trying to argue otherwise is making a mockery of himself. Let me remind you that there is still a Bini community in agbor till date whose dialect is still 85 intelligible to the Binis till date

I admire intellectual challenge. But there is a problem my friend: you bought a wrong one.
For the Bini community in Agbor, I can testify of their presence. They are migrants to Agbor and not aborigines. They are called Ozanogogo by name. They themselves know there are not aboriginal but migrant based on their history. They are now a bilingual people who speak a native dialect of Benin called Oza and also understand Ika. Therefore, their position in Agbor cannot change overnight the Igbo heritage of the Ika people.

For names like Isibor and Irabor I stand fully that they are Igbo names. These names are bore mostly by Anioma people. But, before I bring my evidence to end this debate I throw a challenge to you. Kindly tell us their meaning in Benin

Konquest:
Jim Ovia should not be listed among those names because he is NOT Ibo. He is an indigene of Agbor in Ika South LGA of Delta State and he is Ika. The name Ovia is an Edoid name meaning "God of iron." The Agbor people have strong ancestral ties with the Edos even though they are part of ANIOMA.

Tony Elumelu is also from Delta North and his biological mother is from Onicha Ugbo in Aniocha North LGA, which is the same local government where you'll find the 6 Olukumi towns such as Ugbodu and Eko Efun (otherwise called Ukwunzu) consisting of people whose ancestors came from Yorubaland via Benin and Esanland several centuries back.


Check the map of Delta State below:[/s]

Benin Landgrabber stay clear of Delta North and go do your Landgrabbing elsewhere. Jim Ovia and Tony Elumelu are proud Igbos and if it pains you then use a rope. Imagine how you jumped into an innocent thread to display your ignorance.

You can't tell Anioma people where they belong by bringing up ancient migration which no base. If so, then many tribes in Yorubaland won't be called Yoruba today since they migrated from the so-called Benin empire mostly those in Owo Ondo state. In addition, we might begin to call Benin people Yoruba's since Oranmiyan migrated from Ife. We can also call many parts of Isoko Igbo's too since many migrated from Igboland. But you'll never see Igbos do this since they've now ethnically assimilated with their host tribe. Only you lots from Benin are champions of landgrabbing in a bid to bring back a dead Benin Empire that was built by the Portuguese.

Unlike you Benin's, Igbos don't landgrab tribes we are not related with. We are only concerned with those that share ethnic affiliation with us in Language and culture and the colonial masters have long carved Nigerian ethnic groups accordingly before independence. Therefore, anybody looking to landgrab tribes in this modern age is simply wasting their time and you Benin's should be very careful.

Second, I observed your falsification of Jim Ovia's surname which you think is Benin since it’s sounds so. For your information the Ovia you think is Benin is a pure Igbo name. It's just a dialectical differentiation from Central Igbo Ohia which means forest. Now it takes different forms and becomes Ofia, Ovia, Ohia, Oshia in several parts of Igboland. While it's called Ovia in Ika, Aguleri, Awka, Ohafia etc, it becomes Ofia in places like Onitsha, Asaba, Nkpor etc. Additionally, the Ovia is similar to names like Isibor and Irabor which are deep Igbo names that many of you in Edo now bear and think are Benin names.

Third, The 6 Odiani clan which you rightly called Olukunmi are proud Igbos from Aniocha. The only thing that connects them with Yoruba is simply migration. They are proud Igbos and are part and parcel of the Igbo nation, sharing one destiny with us from the pre-independence, to the civil war to modern Nigeria. Anybody looking to grab must first cross into Igboland and will get a proper response not from us but the Odiani people themselves.

Mindlog:
Nice one.

Some of them were probably part of those who fought during inter house sports back in the day! Do Lagos public secondary schools still fight during inter house sports?

Lol. They hardly fought during inter house sports as that the fastest way to brutal flogging by all the mean male teachers in the school .

However, the place where fighting occur as at then was during inter school football competition named Principal Cup. In fact only the schools tough boys where permitted to go cheer their team because of the after match fight between the losers and victors.

Good old days. The Masquerade later became New Masquerade and was remixed from the late 90’s to early 2000’s.

horsepower102:
It’s an abomination that this thread never made it to front page.

Quite unfortunate.

Datedoboy:
They should give my brother his award o. The award is coming home to Nigeria and Edo state this time around.

I think he will be d first Edo boy to win d award. That's a record

Nope, Victor Ikpeba was the first Edo boy to win it.

A great initiative.

Offpoint1:
Let peace reigns...

The 2 countries are brothers, watching them the are one people with same accents.

Let peace reign

I agree with you.

I did my capturing in August and was scheduled for collection in November. Up till now I haven’t received any message to come pick it up.

Please who can verify collection in Alausa Ikeja. I’m considering going to Alausa this Saturday. Any hope.

I’ve visited 23 states.

Lagos, Abuja, Kwara, Niger, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Kogi, Ekiti, Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Rivers, Cross-Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Benue, Imo.

Among these states, Kwara (Ilorin), Niger (Bida), Cross-Rivers (Calabar), Enugu (Nsukka), Anambra (Onitsha), Imo (Orlu), Delta (Warri), PH, and Lagos remains close to my heart.

Kestolove:
Lesbian

She’s not a lesbian. Something she clarified in her post. She loves gbola and plans to get married a to handsome Nigerian man.
The lady she tagged is married to a partner, the reason she used the tag husband.

Sirianese:
Maybe because Igbo people are naturally bitter

Keep quiet clown. What is Igbo business with a dull lawyer. Mods please this giy just broke nairaland rule.

Is it the Oke Umurhohwo the Marketing Manager of itel or another one?

horsepower102:
Notice how this very informative thread never made it to front page

Very unfortunate. Mods like Mynd44 and OAM4J its well.

Too bad we lost to the East Africans. Hopefully, the country should prepare early. I see no reason why Nigeria can’t host the AFCON alone.

We can always bid for future editions.

All of you castigating the op are funny. Shey no be human being go do the mortuary job again? If all the morticians and anatomists decide to abandon the job due to unfavorable work condition, na where we go con keep dead body again?

It takes a strong mind and spirit to work in the mortuary. Person like me no fit try am. I remembered visiting the mortuary to retrieve my moms corpse 7 years ago, infact it took 3 months for the horror to leave my mind after seeing several corpses there.

So whoever has any help or connection should assit the op. Afterall, he’s looking for a legit job no be thief work him dey find.

YourBestWriter:
I have bsc microbiology. If it is easy to find any kind work in the UK even if to wash toilet, I'm taking it. I'm just tired of these petty jobs I get paid 15k monthly as a biology teacher in onitsha. And I can't even save, so I have lost a lot.

This brought out tears from my eyes. It’s well op. But Mortuary jobs in Naija don’t pay well. Perhaps in overseas yes. But Naija!

Hi,

Please can one still apply?

Msc mass communication

VinnyBaba:
Very TRUE.👍

Azikiwe and AWOLOWO NEVER had any Issues.

When Awolowo was Thrown in Jail by Akintola and Tafawa Balewa's NPC Goons,
It was The January 1966 Coup that Brought him out.🙂

Otherwise, Awolowo would have Completed that 10 years Jail Term and Maybe DIE.

He came out and NEVER Appreciated the Coup Plotters.
Instead, he Joined Gowon in the War and to Starved the IGBOS to Death.😟😢

That's where IGBOS hatred for Awolowo came From.😒

He was Ungrateful and MESSED up really. 😕😌

Yeah, they related well in their closet. Feelers believe Awolowo planned that coup with support by some Igbo NCNC faction. But that's a story for another day. It was actually a chess game that worked. His serving his jail term in the east with the help of Zik who pleaded with Balewa to send him to prison in Calabar was a great move too as it kept him alive.

Aguiyi Ironsi squashing the coup failed the initial plan which was to release Awolowo. The plan of the coupist was to have a detribalized and noble person like Nzeogwu as Head of State, who would sanitize the system, introduce a stronger federalism, stop the division and bloodbath and conduct a fresh election. Ironsi had no business becoming head of state. The British made Ironsi Head of State and it was same British that used the northern soldiers to remove him all for their interest.

Perhaps, Awolowo was wrong to have joined Gowon. Maybe the situation at that time made him to pick a side he felt had a better chance of emerging victorious in the leadership crisis. Don't forget that Zik too liked Gowon who was more humble than Ojukwu. Zik felt he could influence Ojukwu but when baba showed him a stubborn side, he had to backtrack. The same thing happened with Gowon and Awolowo. Awo was able to influence Gowon during the war.

On the issue of Gowon’s inability to stop the killings of the Igbos in the north. I felt he was limited. The sole power lied in Murtala Mohammed hand who was backed by the northern elites and who was the true mastermind of the Ironsi overthrow.. Gowon was fortunate to be given leadership in similar fashion as Ironsi as he was the most senior northern officer.