₦airaland Forum

Shine It: I can see UPN winning at least two Yoruba states.

you mean two polling boots in yoruba states ?

Not surprised, since GEJ is using reputable oil thieves like tompolo ,dokubo,... to "secure" our pipelines

I had no slippers !

OMG, for all those who have contributed to surpass the expectations of the fund raising team. May God surpass your heart expectations.

Onosas: According to a source, two buses belonging tothe Oyo State government, popularly known as'Ajumose Shuttle' were used in evacuating Hausa traders out of the market on Friday, as the Yoruba traders refused to leave, waiting for an opportunity to slug it out with their Hausa counterparts

http://m.naij.com/news/44967.html

I doubt if the Hausa-fulani will be fully accepted anymore in that market, and the yoruba people are ready if the hausa traders try nonsense

Seems there was no father figure in that house.

many of those hollywood movies are doing more damage than good to our little ones

Sincere 9gerian: APC will not even come second in the Anambra election.

Bookmarked for future reference

Billyonaire: Not many can survive plane crash, we need to be thankful. Its also noteworthy that he might be suffering Amnesia due to head injuries. I do hope he can be restored.

Regarding politics, it is the business of Tarabans not mine. FULLSTOP!

If Taraba was controlled by APC governor, would you have said the same thing?

Conspiracy theorist.

Some wars are only in some peoples mind, they are sniffing around to detect it,either real or imaginary to say "yes we said it"

His dad was an election rigger, one of the PDP calamities bestowed on the south west, in fact, after he was removed from senate for wrongfully occupying the position, the then equally clueless Ekiti state governor, who also stole the peoples votes installed him as UBEC chairman, only to discover later that SEN. kila was unqualified.

Adefemi Kila is a Nigerian senator who represented the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State. He became a member of the Nigerian Senate in 2007, and his election was annulled in 2009.[1]
Senate career

Adefemi Kila was elected to the National Senate for the Ekiti Central constituency in 2007. He was appointed to the Senate Committee on Works, and was chairman of the sub-committee for projects in the North-Central and South-West regions.[2] In October 2008 he defended the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency in Benue State, blaming problems on poor funding.[3]

In May 2008, he was among four senators on the screening committee who appeared to be delaying the assumption of office by the nominated Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Mzamber Waziri.[4]

On June 30, 2009, the Court of Appeal quashed his election and declared the Action Congress candidate, Bode Ola, the lawful winner of the April 2007 poll. A deciding factor was that 19,000 of the ballots cast for Chief Kila had the same serial number.[1][5] The election of Kila's former colleague in Ekita state, Senator Ayo Arise, was also challenged in court that month and a re-run was ordered.[6]

Soon after Kila was ousted from the senate, Ekiti State Governor Segun Oni nominated Kila as the state’s candidate for chairman of the Universal Basic Education Commission. However, it was later decided that he was not qualified for this job.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adefemi_Kila

jp philips: Go ahead and insult my intelligence, senators, HOR and ministers dont perform except given the Government house, is that human logic or Goat reasoning?

I am sure Abike Dabiri in the lower house, dora Akunyili, Princess odua and even yerima will disagree with you.

Our politics has evolved where a Governor fails and you hand him the presidency and expect him to perform, arent you tired of wishful thoughts?

He is very right, it is different ball game in the legislative arm , much worse if you are in the opposition

he has only spent two years.

I see you talk about Abike Dabiri, her freedom of information bill failed to scale througgh in her second term of 4 yrars, she spent roughly 7 years to see that bill scale through.

I also think a greater role is the oversight functions of his committee.

Do not also forget he has co-sponsored a bill with some group of senators, the grouse is that he has not single handedly sponsored a bill

Noblechyk: Funny enough, PDP doesn't normally impose candidate. They only manipulate d outcome of of the party primaries in favor of their preffered candidate. APC is worse in terms of internal democracy. It's emergence is good as PDP has to sit up; but they are definitely no better alternative

Leave story,just yesterday, PDP now has 2 gubernatorial candidates for Anambra elecction produced from 2 different primaries.

A faction produced the one imposed by OGA @ the tops, and other faction recognised by Inec produced the second candidate.

It is the other way round, Other parties have a lot to learn from the defunct ACN now APC on internal democracy.

Why conduct a Ghana must go induced primaries to elect a candidate ?

Was a PDP opposition member the wedding planner to know the amount spent?

Talking about flunging figures from the asss.

They could as well say he spent 10 billion naira, so some people can believe nonsense they are sniffing around for

His conclusion was based on a wrong premise

You will not win at the primaries, so why bother ?

I doubt if he is calculative.

Why is he looking bewildered?

Logicboy03: Become an atheist and you'd have no problem

Religion is a waste of time. It is better for me to feed poor people under the bridge than listen to a pastor or priest.

For this comment to have had as much as 7 likes in 2,000 views could mean more people are losing confidence in churches, mosques and shrines . There is a need for spiritual awakening in the land, and for people to realise we are most importantly created to worship God.

GEJ had 98% of the total votes in the south east in 2011.

He can no longer get 98% performance in the South east in 2015 - FACT.

I also have a feeling, there would be lesser number of voters coming out to vote in the SE for 2015 presidential elections

But, Where is Governor Chime ? I was expecting to see him in that pix, i hope he has won the fight against that monster?

I will keep saying Nigerians have got common sense and conscience , but they deactivate it on fooolish and sentimental reasons like tribal affiliation, religious affiliations and political party affiliations.

How can presumably sane people on Nairaland be supporting an obviously deluded fake prophet who wants a market on and beside the yaba railway line ?

NRC told to curb rail side trading
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A train parked at Agege rainway staion

A train parked at Agege rainway staion

Trading beside railway lines either inside makeshift shops or through hawking has remained a norm in-spite of the danger inherent.
The traders reputed for rail side selling market products ranging from consumer to durable goods. The practice is more pronounced at Agbado, Ijoko, Agege, Iju and Yaba railway stations where traders converge as early as 7.00a.m daily to market their wares. It is imperative to state that most times the traders display their wares on the rail lines only to remove same temporarily when a train is approaching. In 1996 when Dr. (Mrs.) Kema Chikwe was Minister of Transport at train accident occurred at “Yaba” level crossing leaving five people most of whom were traders operating along the railway lines dead.
http://www.mydailynewswatchng.com/2013/05/16/nrc-told-to-curb-rail-side-trading/

Immediately after the accident management of Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) embarked on veiled efforts to stop trading along the railway lines through periodic raids, only for the traders to return in larger number. The Lagos State Government in its determination to stop encroachment of traders on rail lines especially at strategic areas like Yaba and Oshodi got positive nod from management of Nigerian Railway Corporation to put a final stop to the practice. The state government thereafter barricaded the Oshodi and Yaba railway station environs and stationed Policemen permanently to wade off any intruder.

Keen observers of events are however of the opinion officials of the Corporation collect daily returns of between N50.00 and N100.00.
Managing Director, First Rit Nigeria Limited , Mr. Eric Umezurike, said that management should learn from what the Lagos State Government has done by barricading the railway stations in Lagos and other parts of the country. He noted that all over the world, railway premises are secluded and only passengers and workers are allowed to enter the railway stations and workshops respectively. Mr. John Obi, a regular commuter, said that apart from trading, beggars use the railway lines as platform for begging. According to him the beggars are more predominant at Agbado and Agege railway stations.

Pix now uploaded

He could have been crushed by the wheels. I av heard it happened before.

The prophet is lucky Fashola is not like Ihedi Ohakim, he would have been flogged by him.

cogitoErgo: Haba ehn, wetin be ur problem self, leave dis people (Ndigbo) alone now!
@OP, dis is sweet, I like the way it connects some of the scattered histories I have. But I know fit see d picture o!
Noo wonder, d place to go for all Yoruba people is Ibadan, b4 d emergence of mordern Lagos and even up till today! Ibadan is a 'no man's land' of the Yorubas! I wish to settle there one day!

Apologies not attaching the picture, i have not been a able to figure out why the pix refuse to be attached, i hope i will do that soon.

old ibadan

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/577297_414804778625516_930836783_n.jpg

History of Ibadan

According to the literature, creation of Ibadan was circumstantial. The history of Ibadan had long been preserved through oral history but written record says it was formed in 1829. After the collapse of the Yoruba Empire towards the end of the 18th century, ‘Eba Odan’ had been populated by Yoruba rebels. ‘Eba Odan’ means between the forests and the plains and it was surrounded by seven hills, it functioned as a sacred area for the fighters that fled the war. Before the existence of Ibadan, Oyo, a very powerful empire, was long established and govern larger part of Yoruba land, many fierce independent warriors emerged from Oyo such as Bashorun Gaa.

Bashorun Gaa was the head of the Oyo Mesi, He was a monster in the kingdom. While on the throne as prime minister between 1750 and 1774, Bashorun Gaa was a classical tyrant ruler. He instrumental the killing of four kings or forced them to commit suicide (Faleti,1972). Alaafin Labisi 1750 after 17 days on the throne; Alaafin Awonbioju 1750 after 130 days on the throne; Alaafin Agboluaye 1750-1772 (Agboluaje submitted to Bashorun Gaa’s dictation but was later forced to commit suicide under the command of Bashorun Gaa) and also executed Alaafin Majeogbe 1772-1773. He also instructed the murder of the daughter of Alaafin Abiodun and later used the victim for money ritual. Bashorun Gaa, unconstitutionally hijacked all the political power and machinery of Oyo kingdom.

The elimination of Bashorun Gaa was a difficult task. It cost the old Oyo kingdom lots of both human and natural resources. Alaafin Abiodun and Oyo warriors in
collaboration with Aare-Ona-Kaka-N-fo Oyalabi, arrested Gaa. He was tied to a stake at Akesan market and Alaafin Abiodun ordered that every citizen should cut a pound of flesh from his body and drop it in a huge fire in front of him. He was made to smell the odour of his own flesh, his nose was not allowed to be cut. The remains of his body were later burnt in fire to prevent his re-incarnation. His embarrassing death led to the popular Yoruba saying that “Bi o ba la’ya O si’ka; bi’o ba ri’ku Gaa, O sooto” which means (if you are wicked and pigheaded when you see the death of Gaa, try to be good and speak the truth)

Before 1829 Lagelu, the Jagun (commander-in-chief) of Ife and Yoruba's generalissimo, left Ile Ife with some people from Ife, Oyo and Ijebu to found a new city, at Eba Odan, the first city was destroyed due to an incident at an Egungun (masquerade) festival when an Egungun was accidentally disrobed and mocked by women and children in an open marketplace. Meanwhile, In Yorubaland, it was an abomination for women to have eye-to-eye contact with Egungun, Egungun was considered to be the dead forefathers who returned to the earth each year to bless their descendant. When this news reached Sango, the then Alaafin of Oyo, he commanded that Eba-Odan be destroyed for committing such abominable act.

Lagelu and some of his people fled to a nearby hill for protection (sacred place). On the hill they survived by eating Oro fruit and Igbin (snails); later, they cultivated the land and made corn and millets into pap meals (eko), which they ate with roasted snails. They improvised a bit by using the snail shells (Ikarahun Igbin) to drink the liquefied eko. This eating habit formed part of the ancestral praise (Oriki) of Ibadan people today. Later, Lagelu and his people came down from the hill and founded another city called Eba'dan on the same spot.

They began to welcome more people to expand. Eba’dan became a refugee center. Various people, such as warriors, war escapee, escaped slaves, people in exile etc from various parts of other Yoruba cities. They developed more flexible laws because of the diverse nature of the people. Ibadan grew into an impressive and sprawling urban centre so much that by the end of 1829, Ibadan dominated the Yorùbá region militarily, politically and economically. Shortly, Lagelu died, leaving behind a politically oriented people and a very stable community.
Around 1826/27, Afọnja of Ilorin, who was the Arẹ-Ọna-Kankan-Fo of old Ọyọ Empire, refused to carry out the order of Alaafin, when told to wage war against Iwere-Ile, a Yoruba town in modern day (Kwara).

An unresolved rivalry brewed between Alaafin and Afọnja. Afọnja formed alliance with Alimi, the head of Fulani warriors (who are settlers in Ilorin) against Ọyọ, and Oyo kingdom was destroyed. Unfortunately, Fulani supporters turned against Afonja as well and killed him on the order of Alimi. Ilọrin also lost its independence and became Fulani controlled territory. Therefore, whenever Yoruba says Ilorin is afonja’s city, Fulani will say ‘’it is Alimi’s city. This led to the present saying of ‘Ilorin afonja-Geri alimi’. In 1840, Fulani Caliphate began to raid towards Ibadan, Oyo indigenes begin to retreats towards Ibadan, a well developed Ibadan army confronted them and pushed Fulani back to Ilorin. Few people later moved back to Oyo to form new Oyo Kingdom, but a weaker one, and many decided to stay in Ibadan.

Ibadan kept growing economically and politically and become a safer zone for all Yoruba people. During this booming era of Ibadan, one of the powerful business woman was Efunsetan Aniwura, an Egba descendant (who became Iyalode of Ibadan). Efunsetan Aniwura (owner of Gold) was a wealthy business woman at Oja-Oba in Ibadan, she owns lots of landed property and hundreds of slaves. Oral evidence reveals that she had three large farms with no less than 100 slaves working on each at a time. She extended credit facilities as form of ammunition to the various Ibadan warriors (Ajagun’ta) when they were going on their military expeditions in 1872.

She had a terrible sense of loss. Her only daughter died in 1860 during childbirth. Therefore, with the stigma of not having a progeny to inherit her legacies, she blamed God for her tragedy and vent anger on her slave and the society, becoming wicked, cruel and heartless. Her slaves are usually identified in the market with signs of cane stripes all over their body. Efunsetan kicked against the military expansion of Aare Latoosa and stopped extending credit facilities to Latoosa when Latoosa set out for another war in 1874 (Osewa, 2005; Ilesanmi, 2010). After returning from battle field, Latoosa levied three charges against Efunsetan which led to plot of death against her around 1874.

In 1893 Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton on 15 August. By then the population of Ibadan had grown to round 120,000 which made Ibadan the third most populated City in the whole of Africa after Cairo and Johannesburg. The British developed the new colony to facilitate Ibadan commercial activities and Ibadan shortly grew into the major trading center that it is today

Long live Ibadan…Long live Yoruba...

By: Raymond Ayinla Ajeigbe

St.Capital:
I am suspecting that a deal is going on between PETER OBI/APGA EXECUTHIEVES and PDP/PRESIDENCY because I believe SOLUDO is one of the best candidates for ANAMBRA GOVERNMENT HOUSE.PETER OBI/APGA EXECUTHIEVES are right now planning for APGA's DEATH and BURIAL at the same time after NOVEMBER 16th election in ANAMBRA STATE,after analysing all the write up i have read about the NOVEMBER 16TH ELECTION IN ANAMBRA,I believe that PETER OBI and APGA EXECUTHIEVES have been promised PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS to disqualify SOLUDO from being part of this election through APGA the ruling party in the state.PETER OBI wants to be relevant after office and i believe PRESIDENT JONATHAN will make him a MINISTER or any other post after serving as a governor,his future in politics after office is more important to him than APGA ruling ANAMBRA.I dont know why PETER OBI wants to field candidates that cannot win election where DR.NGIGE and DR.ANDY UBA are contesting with popular political parties.

If PETER OBI did not field SOLUDO,APGA is DEAD in SOUTH EAST.

I weep for APGA GOVERNORS.

Do not weep for APGA governors, there is none left

theoctopus: Did I say anywhere that you have to be religious to be rich? I am only responding to your insinuations that religion itself is bad. The principles of wealth and money making have nothing to do with religion. The bible clearly says God allows the sun to shine on the good and the wicked. If you follow certain natural laws, you will make money.

Your wealth and religion study above is crap. It is one of those propaganda being spread by those who want to disprove God. The Arab nations are amongst the wealthiest in the world and they are religious nations. Religion has its good and bad. America is a religious nation. They have been a great religious nation for 200 years. The UK is a religious nation. They are founded on the Anglican communion.

Back to the topic, the point is, you have to leave out these your postulations because they are full of holes. Man by default is a religious being and man by default is a wicked being. The bible clearly says that the heart of man is deceitful and above all things, desperately wicked.

Africa needs good men who can dream and commit to their dream. If Nelson Mandela had spent all his life complaining about the government of the day, what will South Africa be like today? If Gandhi and Mother Teressa spent their lives complaining about bad government, what will India be like today? We need visionary men, not good government. The rise of visionary and dream driven men will force the hand of government and command the followership of the masses. But unfortunately, what we see out there right now are wolves trying to pretend they are sheep but they aint fooling anyone

As regards to the emboldened statement above, you are re-iterating my point, as this applies to individuals and nations. That is why i called you out not to hide under religion in this debate.

I have absolute no problem with religion (true worship), but have a whole lot of problem with religious hypocrisy.

0nlytruth: We don't really know that for sure going by his recent antecedents.
Ngige is looking more and more selfish to decerning folks. Having said that, I may be inclined to still support him ahead of any PDP candidate. Nothing is permanent in politics except interests. My fear is that Ngige may mortgage Anambra coffers to APC and Tinubu, thereby having very little money to invest in the state, BUT my fear of PDP is that they may also sell Igbo future entirely.
The Soludo affair is making me have a rethink of supporting anything remotely related to PDP.

he didnt mortgage anambra coffers to UBA, a fellow Igbo man, it is now Tinubu, he will mortgaged anambra coffers too abi?

lekanolas: * Party’ll split, come back to PDP

The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu has predicted that the newly registered All Progressives Congress, APC will soon disintegrate and its members struggle to join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Ekweremadu stated that despite the fanfare that heralded the registration of APC as a political party, the PDP has never for one day lost sleep over its entrance into the political firmament, stating instead that the PDP was happy because it makes the issue of contending with multiple opposition political parties simpler for PDP to handle.

The Deputy Senate President spoke yesterday on the sidelines during the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the National Institute for Legislative Studies and the University of Benin at the National Assembly on how to offer post graduate diploma and masters degree programmes in Legislative Studies, Parliamentary administration and legislative Drafting.

He said: “We are not worried about the APC, for us that makes the game more interesting. Before, we used to contend with several parties and now we have just only one party to contend with and it makes the matter much easier for us.

“You know in Nigerian politics, gang-up never works. So, they will split and they will still come back to us in the PDP and we will welcome them.”

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/apc-is-a-gang-up-says-ekweremadu/

That is a lie, you are now scared.

Dicta18: Is the Anambra really cursed? More than 80% of APGA people want Soludo. Majority of Anambra want him to lift the State up. Who is afraid of Soludo? Is it true that ogas at the top directed that Soludo must be stopped at all cost because of 2015? Why can't Igbos be allowed to put their first eleven forward? Is APGA now part of PDP? Or has it been sold to PDP? Is it still an Igbo party? Igbo youths are angry. Join us to save APGA now! Let justice be done .

I have always believed the current APGA is a subsidiary of the PDP group.
APGA primaries will hold in 3 days time, and it will be acted according to the script by PDP.

theoctopus: Man is a religious being by default. You cannot separate man and religion. Atheism is actually the worship of self. Some of you have got things confused but think you are somewhat knowledgeable. Its called spiritual blindness. lol. The world has one billion catholics, over 2 billion hindus and budhists, over 1 billion muslims and another about 1 billion pentecostal christians and then pagans. You atheists are in the minute minority and contribute very little to the world apart from propaganda and criticisms. lol

How did you conclude from my post that i am an atheist ?

My friend, i am a christian, but i know and understand religious hypocrisy of many Christians and muslims alike in nigeria.


Bill Gates , who is an agnostic is the richest man in the world.

What i can infer is that there are certain principles that must be followed if you will be wealthy, God in his infinite mercy sanctions it, whether you worship him or not.

Wealth and atheism

Atheism and agnosticism are labels used to describe people who have an active disbelief that god(s) exists, do not know whether a god(s) exists, or believe it is impossible to prove whether God(s) exists. The term "non-religious" is used for those who have no religious affiliation.

Some studies have found correlations between wealth and lack of religious beliefs. The GDP of countries generally correlates negatively with their religiosity, i.e. the less religious a population is the wealthier it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_and_religion