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Politics / Re: Prof. Yemi Oke Writes US President Biden, PM Of Canada In Response To Chimamanda by EquitableTech: 12:34am On Apr 10, 2023
nedu666:


Who is Daniel kalu and wat is his business wit mko

Daniel Kalu is an Igbo man and he wrote epistle on why MKO Abiolas election should be cancelled
That's what we are telling our Yoruba youths. If they knew history, they'd understand that the Igbo hatred forr the Yoruba didn't start with Tinubu...Igbo hates everything that has to do with Yoruba...they have always campaign, vote against Yoruba from beginning of time and that's what they are still doing.
This time around, we will not fold out arms and allow this mandate to be stollen or cancelled again like they did during MKO time.
Yoruba and Igbo will be an eternal enemy by the unwarranted hatred they have for the Yorubas.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Israel Launches Air Raids On Gaza, Lebanon (Pictures) by EquitableTech: 8:47pm On Apr 07, 2023
Ejyksneh:
Good riddance, the terrorist organisation acclaimed religion of peace should be wiped off the face of earth, especially in Nigeria, starting from Tinubu's boudillion street down to the rest of south western states in Nigeria, thanks

You forgot the millions of your brothers and. Sisters living among the people of the western states you want obliterated?
Politics / Re: Soyinka Challenges Labour Party's Datti To Live Debate On TV by EquitableTech: 4:13pm On Apr 07, 2023
ObiORBiafra:
See them canceling the honorable old man because he said Datti was wrong, he said channels shouldn't have been fined, also he didn't by any chance lean towards the APC... All he did said was: "Revolution shouldn't come from an angle of partisan fellowship, that will be the sole benefitiary of the resurrection"

Look at them saying all sorts of things to degrade the old man...



I dey always thank God for my Yoruba upbringing sha... Respect for elders should be something you instill in a child from little. A kid that doesn't have respect for elders will always be a nuisance to the society


Are you surprised?
Do you think Yorubas are wrong when they said those people uses their left legs to wake up their fathers?

The best response for them is silence while you wait for the appropriate time to deliver into their underbelly, a heavy fatal punch to reset their muddled up brains.

It's their culture...they never respect their elders. That's why their society is disorganized.
AI fagba fenikan o jaye o gun....The refusal to respect elders makes the society disorganized
Politics / Re: Which Lagos Is A ‘no Man’s Land’? by EquitableTech: 5:32am On Apr 06, 2023
Onitsha is even a Benin owned Town but the these other ungrateful people thinks they own Onitsha.

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Politics / Which Lagos Is A ‘no Man’s Land’? by EquitableTech: 10:57pm On Apr 04, 2023
*Copied* WHICH LAGOS IS A ‘NO MAN’S LAND’?

By Rasheed Ojikutu [Professor, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Lagos], The Guardian, 16 March 2023:

Nigeria is not only an interesting country in terms of its comic nature. It is also a place with people who are unconcerned about the way the world sees them in terms of ignorance and naivete. In this country, people say and do things that makes the country and its people the laughingstock of humanity through crass ignorance which is accompanied by dogmatism, herd mentality and unwillingness to appreciate the truth.

The Yoruba says “ ti enia ba fe je ogunkogun, a pa itankitan” meaning that “ when a man is out to inherit an undeserved property, he would have to fabricate distorted and untrue history”. Why? if one may ask do some people refer to Lagos as a “ No man’s land” despite obvious facts that the city does not qualify at all for the label? To which Lagos are they referring? How would any rational being refer to a place that has clear and undisputed historical origin and tradition as a “No man’s land?”

The phrase no man’s land has existed since the medieval period to refer to a wasteland or a dumping ground and it came to the fore again during First World War when it was used to refer to “a disputed territory” between two countries or an area that is not controlled by anyone. It is generally an area where there is no king or ruler. It is a home for societal deviants and outlaws.

In Nigeria, this phrase was first used in 1947 to describe Lagos by the First Speaker of the House of Representatives and later Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jaja Anucha Nwachukwu. He used this term not because he believed that nobody owns Lagos but because he believed since Lagos was then the Federal Capital Territory, it belongs to all Nigerians. The question is “Which Lagos was Nwachukwu talking about”? Which Lagos was the Federal Capital of Nigeria? Most youths of today are generally disinterested in the history of Nigeria, hence, the profound ignorance about the country and its constituents.

For avoidance of doubt, Lagos State was never the capital of Nigeria. The capital city of the country until the year 1976 when the Justice Akinola Aguda recommended the movement to Abuja was the space between Fadeyi and Victoria Island in Lagos. Any other space from Fadeyi to Asaba to Ondo State to Oyo to Ogbomosho were listed under the Western Region whose Premier was Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo. For example, Mushin is not Lagos, Palm-grove is not Lagos, Ikeja is not Lagos, Oshodi is not Lagos and so on. This was the situation until the Mid-Western Region was created from the Benin and Delta provinces in 1963. It is the Mid-West that has become Edo and Delta States today.

The Federal Capital Territory which Jaja Nwachukwu referred to as “No Man’s Land” has clear and unambiguous ownership. It is important to mention that Lagos Island belong to the Aromire family and this is undisputable and not Benin. Apapa belongs to the Oluwa family, Lagos Mainland belongs to the Oloto family, Tomaro to Onisiwo, Victoria Island belongs to the Oniru family, Ikate is the land of the Elegushi family, the whole of Ijora including Ajegunle belongs to the Ojora family and so on. These are lands that are well documented and anyone who cares to know the fact should search the archives in Nigeria and London in search of the truth.

The uninformed and flippant individuals who label Lagos as a “no man’s land” should know that the ownership of Lagos was settled on 11 July 1921 when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London which is the final Court of Appeal of the British Empire ruled that Lagos lands belong to the Idejo chiefs who are the children of Olofin. Chief Amodu Tijani Oluwa, the Oluwa of Lagos who was the plaintiff in the case took the British Government to Court for stealing his land in the process he won a huge compensation of twenty-two thousand, five-hundred-pound sterling and thirty-nine pence.

Moreover, it is important to mention that it is only one of the five divisions of Lagos State that served as the capital of Nigeria. There is still Ikorodu (Oko Odu) (farm of blackberry) which is an area that includes the entire stretch of the riverine area of Ketu, Owode-Onirin, Itowolo, up to Imota; Badagry (Agbadayigi or simply Agbada) which if from Mile Two to Badagry Town; Ikeja which covers the whole of Bariga, Somolu, Kosofe, Isolo, Mushin, Oshodi, Egbe, Ikotun, Onigbongbo, Ojokoro Ipaja, Ayobo, Ojodu, Orile Agege, Idimu and their neighbourhood; Epe (the forest of black ants) which is from Ibeju to the whole of Epe and its suburbs (Epe shares boundary with Ijebu-Ode). These divisions called ibile were created by Edict number 3 of May 1968.

Lagos as a place has existed long before the country called Nigeria and it is one of the oldest cities in Nigeria. For clear explanation, the Portuguese explorer who gave the name Lagos (Lago de Curamo meaning the Lake of Kuramo) came to the land for the first time in 1472 where he met Olofin and his children (that was 551 years ago) which makes Lagos older than virtually all modern cities in Nigeria.

Let us take a look at the year of existence of some cities. Onitsha (Onicha -mmili ) meaning is a city founded by Benin adventures in the year 1550 (473 year old. Founded almost a century after Lagos had been in existence), Enugu (Enu-Ugwu or Hill Top) was established by the Enugwu-Ngwo and Nike people around 1690). Umuhaia (the Market Place) was established by the British in the early 20th century.

Awka (Place of the blacksmiths) is one of the oldest cities in Igboland and the center of Nri civilization. Sokoto (Seat of the caliphates) was established by Uthman Dan Fodio who used the title Sarkin Musulumi) in 1804. When he died in 1817 his son Mohammed Bello was the first Sultan of Sokoto who ruled the Eastern part of Sokoto while his brother Abdullahi ruled the Western part of it. Kano (Masculinity or Capability) was probably the oldest city in Nigeria as it was established around 999 by the Hausa Bakwai people.

Kaduna (the crocodile city) was founded by Lord Fredrick Lugard in 1900 which is almost 428 years after Lagos has been existing. Abeokuta (city beneath the rock) was founded in 1830 by Sodeke who was the leader of the Egba refugees who escaped from Oyo during the period. Ibadan (near the field) was a war camp created by a group of Oyo warriors in 1829.

We have taken samples of these cities to show that Lagos is older than most cities in Nigeria and therefore it would be childish, naïve and outrightly innocent for anyone to suddenly brand a city that has existed for centuries and adorned with a rich history, an enviable culture and norms with robust traditional administration and a center of Yoruba civilization as a “no man’s land” when the entire civilization of those who are making claim for Lagos was not at all in existence when Lagos was established.

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Politics / Re: DSS Statement Is An Agenda To Arrest Opposition Leaders In Nigeria – Pa Adebanjo by EquitableTech: 11:08pm On Apr 01, 2023
Diligent1:
Why is baba behaving like this, I am just tired of him. undecided undecided undecided

The old man has outgrown his usefulness...he talks gibberish often these days
Politics / Re: Share This Truth With Yoruba Children. Read It Slowly And Analyse by EquitableTech: 11:16am On Apr 01, 2023
Rareoil:
Nobody has been able to provide a source to back up all that has been written here, how do you expect us to believe this?

Ask your parents or those old men and women around you
Politics / Re: Tinubu And Femi Gbajabiamila Taking A Stroll In Paris, France (Video) by EquitableTech: 10:01am On Apr 01, 2023
Dedeity:
You're already d**d because only a walking d**d can type the way you do. For the records, know it that the drug lord called Tinubu will not rule Nigeria, get that into your empty skull

Tinubu cannot win APC Primaries...He won with a landslide

Tinubu cannot win the presidential elections....He won with a wide marging

Tinubu cannot be declared the president-elect....He was declared effortlessly

Now, it's he cannot be sworn in....He will be come May 29th, 2023.
There's absolutely NOTHING you children of hate can do except to go amd hug a live wire.
Politics / Re: Tinubu And Femi Gbajabiamila Taking A Stroll In Paris, France (Video) by EquitableTech: 9:57am On Apr 01, 2023
Odin13:
Very old clip



Maybe Tinubu is even the one going for interim government… just to avoid shame

Anything is possible

Children of hate. Your hatred will soon consume you
Politics / Re: Share This Truth With Yoruba Children. Read It Slowly And Analyse by EquitableTech: 11:24pm On Mar 31, 2023
franchasofficia:
The op told lots of lies.



Louis Ojukwu, the father of Ikemba Odimegwu Ojukwu was the richest black man in Africa as at 1930s before the second world war broke out in 1939. He was so rich that it was his Rolls Rocye that was used to welcome and carry Queen Elizabeth around when she first visited Nigeria because Nigeria as a nation then didn't had a befitting car to carry the Queen so it was Ojukwu's father's Rolls Royce that was used as state vehicle to carry The Queen on her first visit.



Also remember that Ojukwu's father was so rich that British government via Queen Elizabeth asked for his help in writing during world war II and Ojukwu's father donated his transport company's trucks to British government to use during the world war II. And guess what? Louis Ojukwu lived in Lagos even before Nigeria's independence.




There were several other rich Igbos living in Lagos even before independence and before British government handed over Lagos to Nigeria officially.

Does this negate the fact that people were relocated from the war torn eastern region after the war to Lagos?
Your attempt to defend the indefensible is lame and a further attempt not to appreciate the good Oodua land and its people have done and still doing for you.
I'm certain of a fact, that any stream that despised it's source shall soon dry up. It's jst a matter of time.
Politics / Re: Share This Truth With Yoruba Children. Read It Slowly And Analyse by EquitableTech: 11:15pm On Mar 31, 2023
raskymonojendor:
More on this. Maryland and Ikeja were part of the Western Region. This images were from during the war.

God bless you for those pictures...pictures speaks louder than words

Everything from beginning to the last is the true account of what happened curing and after the civil war. Where the Igbos found reasons to hate Yorubas still baffles me...it's beyond comprehension.
The Igbos, without mincing words, are a race of unappreciative people.
My concern is abouut young Yoruba youths who are been brainwashed to have empathy to lies and false narration of our history.
I hope they would be enlightened by this and more to come.
Politics / Re: FG Fines Channels TV N5 Million Over Interview With Datti Baba-ahmed by EquitableTech: 11:02pm On Mar 31, 2023
RALPHOW:
Anarchy loading!!!!
Only in the southeast...and we'll speak the language you understood

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Politics / Re: FG Fines Channels TV N5 Million Over Interview With Datti Baba-ahmed by EquitableTech: 10:59pm On Mar 31, 2023
N3TRAL:
Datti is a terrible character.

He is an extremist with an evil heart.


Even as a senator, he was the only out of 109 to propose a bill for homosexuals and others under the LGBT umbrella to be killed.

He literally gave a lengthy talk on the floor of the national assembly about why gay people should be killed. His colleagues, fellow legislators, who are extreme in their own way were shocked at the level of Datti's extremism.

With Datti's antecedent, no developed nation of the world would trust him in public office.

When I reflect during leisure hours sometimes, I wonder why "progressive generation Z" in Nigeria let the anti human rights proposals Datti made in the past to slide. [i][/i]

Was it really about progress, positive change or something else?

so called obidits wont have answer to the bold....they are just dimwits

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Politics / Share This Truth With Yoruba Children. Read It Slowly And Analyse by EquitableTech: 10:22pm On Mar 30, 2023
Share this truth with Yoruba Children. Read it Slowly and Analyse for General Appraisal.


*A SUCCESSFUL PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST A BENEFACTOR - The Real Lady of Means.*

In 1968 during the Civil War, devastated Igbos men and children were brought by the Red Cross to Lagos, naked and superannuated. They were dumped on the site where the National Stadium is standing today. It was a bare playground by then.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Commissioner of Finance and Deputy Chairman, War Council, told Gen Yakubu Gowon that it was not safe to keep Igbos as refugees. He said a conversational refuge camp would not be ideal at the time the Western Region was battling with epidemic attacks of Smallpox and Cholera. The WHO efforts to help Nigeria contain the spread was much doubled by the cares of the wounded in battle. And that the epidemic, if it breaks out on the camp, the lives they meant to save could be eventually lost.

Awolowo said he knew his people were very passionate, he suggested that Gowon could allow him to call upon them to carry those Igbo children to their homes. Awo also asked for approval of money for him to apply alternative measures:
- residents of Lagos, Abeokuta, Ijebu and environ, were asked, through the Western Nigeria Broadcasting Service, to come forward and take away the orphans from Igbo land to their homes for care. Yoruba people responded by taking to their homes the Igbo children, all suffering from Kwashiokwa - a poor health condition predicated by lack of salt in the system.
- they clothed, nursed them, nurtured and sent them to school with their own children.
- Chief Obafemi Awolowo, placed order for Lady's Sewing Machine for the grownup Igbo boys to help people mend their clothes to enable them feed themselves. That is what we know as 'Ovbionma' then (we later knew the source of the word to be the Sewing Industry at Ilupeju called Ovbionma, that was sewing the Military Ceremonial Dresses for the Nigerian Armed Forces). Igbos were also helped for shelters too, in people's Boy's Quarters.
- Also, those Igbo children that said they were in Elementary Schools before they were stopped by the war were enlisted into the Western Region Free Primary Schools, according to their levels.
- the children from the East that said they were in Commercial Secondary Schools were given Typewriter Machines to do freelance typing to feed themselves. Some were helped to advance in Pitman Shorthand courses by their guardians.
- Awolowo entreated the industrial sectors to employ the Igbos who were employable in typing and shorthand, as a means to assist the government on its programmes of rehabilitation.
- as an emancipation strategy, guardians to Igbo children, at their own expense, sent them to Adult Education Centres at Montgomery Street Yaba, to study for GCE and RSA which they did very well, to study in UK.
- Yoruba farmers through the WNBS were entreated to make land available to Igbos coming to the Western Region villages. They could farm and take care of themselves in the communities.
- Our fathers gave each man hectares of land to farm. I remember that time, the man with my father said he came from Afikpo Division. He planted Rice by the river side and Gari Cassava at the upper side, on the land my father cut for him.
- to accommodate the Igbos Civil War refugees, our teachers were relocated from their official quarters to individual homes and Church Mission Quarters for Catechists in our village.
Nobody took anything from the Igbos who sojourned in our territory. Yet the Federal Military Government still tasked the Cocoa Farmers of Western Region to pay more taxes and send food to Northern Region which was under a severe drought due to locusts attack. That was the rise of the 'Agbekoya' riots, at the height of provocation.

Rather than reciprocating all these lavished benevolence, the only historic account the Igbos passed over to their posterities is hate against Obafemi Awolowo and a vow of vengeance upon his Yoruba as a people.

In this moments of attrition, you that are reading this in print, think about it, whether Yoruba deserves this humiliation. You that are Christians, judge whether what Yoruba people, both Christians and Muslims, did to their neighbours in their towns and villages did not please God enough to have allowed such payback.

Please, send your views to Email: reparations1850@gmail.com

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Family / Re: Wife Beats Husband Till He Faints After Catching Him In Bed With Another Lady by EquitableTech: 10:46pm On Mar 29, 2023
Kobojunkie:
1. Few? E be like say una just think say if una reject reality una don score for the majority be that. undecided

What you call nature of men is nothing but a private delusion of yours as their are a considerable enough number of men out there who equally opt for women with masculine features as well as personalities. undecided

2. Wow... so, in your mind there, 99.9% of women in relationships are feminine?
ROFLMAO
grin cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy

And here I thought I was having a conversation with someone who has ability to perceive these things. undecided

It should be clear enough from your handle that a reasonable person should refrain from engaging you in a logical reasoning. You simply don't have the capacity for comprehension.
Family / Re: Wife Beats Husband Till He Faints After Catching Him In Bed With Another Lady by EquitableTech: 8:26am On Mar 29, 2023
Kobojunkie:
1. Learn to separate your assumptions regarding what you believe women want from their reality abeg! undecided

2. Again, masculine women date and go on to get married and have babies. Feminine men also go on to date and get married too. So, your claims don't add up at all. undecided

Stop using the few exceptions as a yardstick.
It's nature of men not to want a masculine women as it's for majority of women not to want a feminine men.
The few you see are the 0.1% of the population and those are the exception to the rule...as there are exceptions to every rule of nature.
TV/Movies / Re: Justin Evicted From The Big Brother Titans House by EquitableTech: 11:53pm On Mar 26, 2023
iCauseTrouble:
That is how we are going evict Tinubu on May 29th

In your dreams

Asiwaju has come to stay
Politics / Biafra War: The Truth Must Be Told. by EquitableTech: 10:50pm On Mar 26, 2023
THE TRUTH MUST BE TOLD.

During the 30 month long Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, Col Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu, the sessesionist leader and Biafran war lord, carried out an air attack on Lagos. The attack on Lagos was unnecessary and it was that incident that drew the Yoruba into what was essentially a war between the southeastern Igbos and Northern hausa/fulani.

Ojukwu knew for certain that the Yorùbá had no stomach then for war, and also was not going to allow any assault on the East from the West. The key Yoruba Generals, after trying their best to mediate on both sides, and after Col Musa Yar'Adua a fulani military officer shot Col Benjamin Adekunle a Yoruba military officer without any consequences, have told General Yakubu Gowon the military head of state, to fight his own war.

The Igbos were winning at the initial stages of the East-North war. The East had taken all what the Federal Government had in the eastern Nigeria and destroyed them. They had defeated all the Generals from the North completely, and all Ojukwu needed to do was shift from a defensive mode to attack against the North, and he would have gained ground, shifted the battle ground to the North proper and put the civilians under pressure, forcing Gowon to negotiate the exit of the East from Nigeria. But that was not what he did. He instead saw it as an opportunity for the Igbos to conquer the whole south, expand territory and impose their rule on the Yorùbá. Even though Yorubaland nurtured Ojukwu as it nurtured many frontline Igbos including Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chinua Achebe and most of the Igbo leadership, he repaid us with contempt.

As a very senior member and commanding officer of the Nigerian Army, and indeed military governor of the then Eastern region, he knew the Yorùbá's had no weapons base, complement of the British that deliberately and strategically diverted all the military arsenal to Kaduna in the North and left the West completely unprotected from attacks by the other tribes, because the British feared the Yorùbá's more. Ojukwu knew this, and Chief Obafemi Awolowo also alluded to this at their last meeting in Onitsha (Awolowo was making a last- ditched effort to persuade Ojukwu to rescind his declaration of secession and not go to war) - a conversation that was secretly recorded and the tape transcribed. So why was it that it was the Yorùbá's the Igbo leadership chose to attack instead of pursuing the hausa/Fulanis that attacked them. The answer can be deduced from Ojukwu' s letter to Col Banjo (a Yoruba military officer trapped in the East and who became Ojukwu's second in command) promising to make him the governor of the southwest and answerable to him.

But Ojukwu was foolish, his contempt for the Yorùbá's made him forget our tenacity when threatened.

Col Benjamin Adekunle rose up and formed a new Fighting Battalion made up of Yoruba soldiers and called the 3rd Marine Commando with the approval of Gowon and the North. Gowon was powerless, already facing certain defeat. The Yorùbá's taxed themselves and bought new weapons for the new Battalion but the weapons were not purchased from the British. Adekunle's wife and children were caught on the battle frontline by the the sudden attack by Biafra. Incidentally, Adekunle was the one who rescued most of the experienced Igbo fighting men from the North and feom certain annihilation, yet Ojukwu went after Adekunle's family in Warri.

At that time, the Yorùbá's have had a long historical relationship with the Calabars than the Igbos. There was a Yoruba town in Calabar then, so Adekunle sneaked to Calabar and formed the second front made of south south fighters who had already been rubbished by the Igbos when they thought they would win the war. It was those East-West assaults on Biafra that led to the Biafran demise. Adekunle sunk Ojukwu and Biafra. He attacked their Western front which was already at Ore and advancing towards Lagos (after overrunning Benin with the military Governor Col David Ejoor escaping capture on bicycle) with speed boats operated by Ijaw boys that he recruited for that purpose, deterring the Biafran advancement, forcing them to retreat back to Benin crushing them, and continued to move them to Asaba and across River Niger back to the East. Ojukwu set up defenses across river Niger expecting Adekunle to follow and fall into a trap, but he didn't. Instead, he went after the Biafran Navy making sure that the Igbos will never threaten the Yorùbá's again from the sea.

Gowon was furious that Adekunle did not pursue Biafra to crush then completely, so he brought Col Murtala Mohammed to Benin to do the job. However, Murtala was a disaster. Apart from sacking the Central Bank and stealing all the money, he was a resounding failure. He was defeated repeatedly by the Biafran army over, destroying the lives of many soldiers. Yoruba soldiers refused to fight with him totally.
Meanwhile Adekunle continued his foray and captured Bonny, sacked Port Harcourt and then went after the Biafran stronghold in Owerri. He attacked Owerri both from Portharcourt and Calabar, in a fierce inch by inch engagement. The Igbos best fighting men and women and their officers were in Owerri and that battle was the bloodiest.

When Adekunle conquered Owerri, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, and the war would be over.

The story of the war was documented by foreign press, expecially Military Press, who came to witness the incredible fighting skills and strategies displayed in Portharcourt and Owerri. Adekunle had already made International news and reputation as one of the best warrior-generals of modern warfare, and the best to emerge from Africa. Every news outlets wanted to interview and document his troops. He had the best officers Nigeria ever produced, trained by him. They led their forces from the front and created magic that brought the whole world press to the Nigeria battle field.

Gowon did not defeat Biafra, the Fulanis did not defeat Biafra, it was the Biafra leadership disrespect and contempt for the Yoruba people and their misreading and misunderstanding of our character and attitude that defeated Biafra.

Yes, towards the end of the war, it was also the Yorubas that came up with the reconciliation plan, and the famous phrase of "no winner, no vanquished". The Yorùbá of Lagos who owned the land and developed Surulere were made to give up their ownership of those buildings up to Lawanson to resettle the Igbos. Primary and secondary schools in Lagos were expanded to create spaces and accommodate the resettled Igbos, depriving the Yorùbá's in the process. The people were not initially happy, but the leadership went around to create the awareness that the Igbos were our cousins and that the war was a family feud and over. That is the nature of the Yoruba - compassionate, accommodating, fair-minded, generous, always putting themselves in the position of others. We do not take what does not belong to us and we have no expansionist tendencies. We will not crowd the space of others or attempt to take it. We are a fulfilled and contented people. We will rather engage in dialogue and reasoning, embrace peace than engage in strife. Other tribes take this for timidity and fear. No, far from it. The events after the annulled June 12 elections of 1993 and the frontal and pivotal role of the Yoruba have proved otherwise. We are a painstaking amd resilient people, who will not shy away from a war but will rather fight with superior intellect, well thought-out strategy and persistence. That approach brought back the Yoruba into the mainstream of Nigerian politics and frontline player in our national life. Not the in-your-face, brazen and aggressive approach of the Igbos that have consistently made other ethnic nationalities to be wary of them and view them with suspicion.

But look at the version of history that the Igbos feed their own children! Still filled with contempt against the Yorùbá's and purposefully calculated lies just like before the war. Now Igbos claim that Lagos is not only a no-man's land but that they actually own it. What a double talk, what a cheeky audacity! They have expanded their claim to include Ibadan, that they built everything in Yoruba land. That is what they teach their children.

But can you blame them? What are the stories we the Yorùbá are telling our children especially those that were born after the Biafran War, the so called Gen Y and Gen Z? The starry-eyed one-way idealists, with no knowledge of the history and antecedents of their ethnic nation, whose world view and actions are controlled and shaped by the social media? Do your children know the truth about events in your lives when you were young? Have we not failed in our individual and collective responsibility? History is no longer taught in our schools one of the ways to make us ignorant of events while others are rewriting the narratives. The Igbos and indeed other ethnic nationalities and foreigners are welcomed in our land but they must know their limits. They do not and cannot have the same right as the indigenes. Unless by conquest or first settlement you cannot claim to be the indigenous owner of land. Equity dictates that what you cannot give to others you cannot expect others to give to you. It is common knowledge that non-indigenes cannot own land anywhere in Igboland. Not even leasehold. They are fierce and violent about this. How can they now come to another man's land and claim ownership? They are migrants pure and simple.

What did you tell your children? Do they know these truths? Let us begin to tell the true stories to our children.

WE OWE THEM THAT MUCH

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Politics / Re: Peter Obi Meets With Olusegun Obasanjo At Anambra Airport (Photos) by EquitableTech: 6:24pm On Mar 26, 2023
Imon tu, imon jo, imon enini kii dojo ale
Both are Igbo by blood and flesh
We have triumph over their evil antics

ebukajay184:
Labour Party's presidential candidate, Peter Obi has shared photos from his meeting with Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo at Anambra airport on Saturday, IGBERETV reports.

He captioned the photos on his Twitter handle;



https://twitter.com/PeterObi/status/1639894603531706368?s=19

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Politics / Re: Am I An Omo Ale just like GRV? by EquitableTech: 12:40pm On Mar 26, 2023
Yorubalandlord:

So judging by what you just said, anyone that doesn't support tinubu and Apc is anti yoruba and omo ale.

Is obasanjo omo ale

That's your bigoted opinion and selfish interpretatation not mine

It's only a bastard that points to his father's house with his or her left hand.
Politics / Re: Am I An Omo Ale just like GRV? by EquitableTech: 10:44am On Mar 26, 2023
Your character, utterances and dispositions to Yoruba interest will determine if u are Omo Ale like Chinedu who can's speak Yoruba but wants to rule Yoruba land while making inflamatory and derogatory statements about Yorubas. He's a bonafide Omo Ale


Yorubalandlord:
So many things have been going through my mind lately, which calls for concern on my identity.

I married a beautiful ibo lady from anambra nnewi precisely.

Will my kids be classified as an omo ale if in future they decide to run for an election in their land and gets the backing of the ibos, are they omo ale?

I have learnt so many things during this 2023 election.

I am omooluabi to the core from osun, ile-ife.
But my mom is ibo from imo state orlu, and I support good things.

I was among Peter obi support network (POSN).

I was pro osibanjo, but as he didn't win the Apc primary, I became pro obedient.

Looking at all this I listed above, I'm I am omo ale just like GRV.

I am not from lagos, but can I be classified as a lagosians, just like my ibo brothers born and brought up in lagos
Politics / Re: Join Our March For Democracy Across Nigeria by EquitableTech: 4:53pm On Mar 25, 2023
Just by mistake do any protest anywhere in the southwest
Then we'll show you who your mother's husband is

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Politics / Evidences Obi Rigged All Votes From South East by EquitableTech: 4:48pm On Mar 25, 2023
*From a powerful platform:*

*This is why they are not challenging the result of the presidential elections.*

Some are wondering why Obi,didn't bring the so-called evidences that he won the election.

Let us use the Obidient election tallies on IREV.

In Anambra,INEC declared 584,621 votes for Obi.

By Obidient calculations on IREV,Obi actually scored 379,889 votes in Anambra.

*A massive 200,000 votes were added for Obi.*

In Enugu,INEC announced,428,640 votes for Obi.

By Obidient calculations,on IREV,Obi actually scored 337,008.

*His votes were inflated by 100k!*

In Imo, INEC announced 360,495 votes.

When Obidient did their own tally on IREV,Obi's votes were 247,947.

*Another 100k votes were added for Obi.*

These are reasons why Obidients stepped back a bit,and realised,in trying to chase who owed their fathers money,they would meet those who their father too owed.

*An Akwa Ibom proverb says," What the goat heard,that made it keep quiet, is more than what the fowl heard that made it cackle about"*

Me: I knew this would happen...!

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Politics / Re: "Hope Obi supporters Believe Now That Lagos Belongs To The Yorubas" - MC Oluomo by EquitableTech: 9:20am On Mar 19, 2023
loosecanon50:
Anybody who believes the war which happen yesterday in Lagos was an election is nothing but an enemy of this country.

Yes, it was a war between Yorubas...the owners of the land and the Igbos...the usurpers who wants to forcefully claim our land
Yorubas defeated them again yesterday as we did during the Biafan war by pushing you back from Ore to Owerri when the Yoruba gallant soldier ... Gen.Benjamin Adekunle known as the Black Scorpion dealt mercilessly with them for advancing towards and wanting to take over Lagos
Be warned...the third time, we will obliterate you from the surface of the Earth

You call us cowards, yet, we always defeat you easily in every encounter.
Igbos are the real cowards

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Politics / Re: INEC Postpones Elections In 10 Lagos Polling Units by EquitableTech: 6:20pm On Mar 18, 2023
Gangster1ms:

Igbos cannot be President.
Igbos cannot vote.
Igbos cannot get Biafra. At the mention of it they give you the IPOB tag.

This has gone past intimidation. This is witchcraft.

The message is clear and loud enough

Go back to your land. You are no longer a welcome guest on Oodua soil

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Politics / Tribal Voting by EquitableTech: 3:51pm On Mar 16, 2023
**16 march 2023*

*Tribal** *voting*

Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Kwara, Kogi, Edo, and Delta state are ready to defend Sanwo-Olu in Saturday's election.

The church in Nigeria has sowed the seed of division in the southeast and was again used to destroy the unity of Nigeria that is to keep us one. On January 15, 1966, the military used the same southeast to cause a division that led to Nigeria's civil war.

Hon. Gbajabiamila of Surulere constituency 2 delivered a dividend of democracy to us 100 % more than Sanwo-Olu the governor of the state but got zero votes from ingrate Igbos who believed in nobody except themselves. They are tribalistic to the core and have expansionist plans not different from that of the Fulani.

Sanwo-Olu and descendants of Oduduwa I congratulate you all that the presidential election came first and will all have time to amend and correct our mistakes or else Igbos that were stopped by our parents at Ore in 1968 will have a second chance to attack Yoruba land. Thank God the mission failed but all the church and men of God that the devil used will one day be punished.

Sanwo-Olu, Fashola, and Gbajabiamila are all Surulere residents and remained so for life but remembered Shitta residents saved you because they are 100% Yorubas. Please construct low-cost houses in all local governments and allow indigenes to buy them with long-time payments. Your style of outright payments is unwise and myopic considering the economic powers of our people. Chief Awolowo and Alh Jakande all favored the Yoruba people but Bola Ahmed Tinubu came with a capitalist system that is new to our culture hence it permits outsiders at the expense of Lagosians.

Sir, Ladipo spare parts shops must be relocated to Ibafo and Mowe to give way for world-class hospitals. The majority of them will move their voter's cards to Ogun state and will become a minority in that environment.

Trade-fair must be taken back from Igbos and used for the purpose it was designed for and I can assure you that over 50% will be out of Lagos.

20% allocation to the southeast in Lagos state must be revoked because the intention has been defeated. Political positions must be revoked and further appointments must be stopped

In 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015,2019, and 2023 the Southeast voted against our interest in any party Yoruba support. Do not tell me southeast voted for Gen Obasanjo because they are aware he is one of them. If not let him surrender himself for a DNA test.

Lagos is known more as the capital of Nigeria and the national assembly has refused to accord Lagos that status , hence lagos resources must be used to advance our development.

Sir, the southwest needs a mortgage bank as well as financial institutions to assist small businesses to grow. The current banking has lost its bearing and does not suit our system.

All youth corp (NYSC) members upon graduation must write a project proposal of what they can do instead of looking for white-collar jobs that are not available. I suggest 2-5m loans to them and their certificates, BVN, and NIN as collateral. Remember cocaine and other drugs related are not in our culture but imported to us, Internet fraud can be eliminated in the southwest.

Massive training must be introduced at all levels of government for our youths to be trained and become an employer of labor or self-employed. Our people will do well in fabrics, furniture, transportation, entertainment industries, and even in auto spare parts.

A word is enough for the wise

Please fear not as your brothers and sisters will come out to vote for you and not just vote for you but to defend their father's land. Please remember our people and pay us back with happiness.

God bless the descendants of Oduduwa

Yomi Arogbonlo
Politics / Re: Fact Check: Did Obi Win 19 States In February 25 Presidential Election? by EquitableTech: 9:22pm On Mar 09, 2023
kk2027:
I dont know how many states he may have won but Obi actually won the election, lets be honest

He won SE and SS hands down, he won NC, he [b]won Lagos with about 1million votes, [/b]he won Abuja, he won Plateau with around 1 million votes, he won in many areas of Bauchi and other northern states. Most of his northern votes were completely robbed.

If APC knew they have done so well, why didnt they allow a free and fair election so Nigerians can re-elect them

Remind me why the results were not transmitted electronically again

In the middle of bvas, we relapsed to the old way rigging grin

Tell emilokan to rule naija no be force

Tinubu that lost woefully in Osun or Lagos was miraculously winning in opponents strongholds, no be juju?

Is your head paining you?
Obi won Lagos with 1 million votes?

Olofo radarada

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Politics / Re: Press Conference By Concerned Igbo Stakeholders by EquitableTech: 11:40pm On Mar 08, 2023
Too late and tricky...we won't fall for this
You guys have already bitten more than you can chew

[ quote author=EquitableTech post=121589317]BEING TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY CONCERNED IGBO STAKEHOLDERS AT AIRPORT HOTEL, IKEJA LAGOS. TODAY, WEDNESDAY, 8TH OF MARCH, 2023.



Gentlemen of the press,

We welcone you all to this press conference put together to clarify where Ndigbo stand with regards to the up-coming gubernatorial and state assembly elections holding this Saturday and also to throw clarity to some issues that concern Ndigbo here in Lagos.

We, as Igbos living in Lagos made up of traditional rulers, market leaders, Market women, youths, civil society organizations, town unions and other categories of Igbo population in Lagos state as follows;

1. That we endorse and pledge support to the incumbent Governor of Lagos, His Excellency, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in his re-election bid. Our support for him is anchored on his performance, competence, cordial relationship with Igbos and his grand vision for Lagos, which has greatly favoured Igbos in the last four years.

Among all contestants for the tasking office of Lagos state Governor in the coming election, Sanwo-Olu is the best; tested and capable so we urge all Igbos to vote for him on Saturday for the continued benefits of Ndigbo.

2. We state unequivocally that Lagos is neither an Igbo State nor a no-man's land, as some provocatively state. Although Lagos was a former federal capital, it wholly belongs to Yorubas. We therefore dissociate ourselves from any claim that contravenes the fact that Lagos is a Yoruba state and emphatically state that Igbos are not subscribers to the weird position, marketed by mischief makers that Lagos is a no-man's land. And we pray that we may never use our mouths to say that Lagos is no man's land because Lagos is not a no-man's land. It is Yoruba land.


3. We state that a lot is at stake given the investment of our people in Lagos. Only a thoughtless tribe without minds of their own will toil with their destiny. Ndigbo will never toy with their destiny, their interests, their investment and their security in Lagos by going into any needless confrontation with the Yorubas who have been very accommodating, very hospitable and very cosmopolitan to Igbos in Lagos. While we thank the Yorubas for their understanding, we ask them to see those who want to instigate a fight between Yorubas and Igbos for their devious and selfish political interests, as not representing the Igbos as we urge Igbos to reciprocate this tolerance by voting for Sanwo-Olu and APC House of Assembly candidates this Saturday.

4. We want the Yorubas to Equally understand that In last week's presidential election, our son Peter Obi was on the ballot and that this generally drew the sentimental support of many Igbos, who voted for him. The result has shown that while majority Igbos voted for their son, majority Nigerians voted for our President-Elect. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. While this is understandable, we urge the Yorubas not to see the voting pattern last Saturday as an act of hostility but of democratic choice. This Saturday, Nigerians will vote on the governorship, election and we see it as a great opportunity for Igbos in Lagos to show that we are not political enemies of the Yorubas by voting en mass for Gov. Sanwo-Olu as no Igboman is contesting for the governorship of Lagos. Igbo should show love to Yoruba by voting Gov Sanwo Olu

5. We note that our South East region is troubled and has become a hotbed of insecurity and not safe for Ndigbo for a long time now. In this period. Lagos has absorbed millions of Igbos and their businesses fleeing from the insecurity in the South East. Gov. Sanwo-Olu has been particularly accommodative and the Yorubas have been magnanimous in taking in these Igbos. The governorship election is a payback time and Igbos should be careful not to show themselves as hostile and aggressive guests to Yorubas as that will spell doom for millions of Igbos, living peacefully and safely in Lagos and doing their businesses without let or hindrance. Let us vote Sanwo-Olu because he represents the interests of all Lagosians.

6. We want to assure the Yorubas that Igbos are not greedy as to plot to take over Lagos as some miscreants and hoodlums intent on causing crisis, are saying. We want Yorubas to know that those provocative statements and boasts are not by true Igbos. That such expression of ingratitude are made to drive wedges between the harmonious understanding Igbos enjoy with Yorubas in Lagos for over a century now. We want to assure Yorubas that Igbos are very much committed to this beneficial relationship and would do nothing to harm it. We will use the next Saturday election to demonstrate our commitment to this understanding and further cement our relationship with the Yorubas by voting massively for Sanwo-Olu who we project to enjoy massive victory in the gubernatorial election this Saturday.

Concluding: We totally and unconditionally declare that Igbos in Lagos will come Saturday, vote for the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and APC state assembly candidates and we urge every Igbo man in Lagos to do so for our overall interest.

Thank you all for your time.


Signed:

1. Peter Claver Oparah,


2. Kelvin Nwoha


3. Chima Ukwandu[/quote]

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Politics / Press Conference By Concerned Igbo Stakeholders by EquitableTech: 11:38pm On Mar 08, 2023
BEING TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY CONCERNED IGBO STAKEHOLDERS AT AIRPORT HOTEL, IKEJA LAGOS. TODAY, WEDNESDAY, 8TH OF MARCH, 2023.



Gentlemen of the press,

We welcone you all to this press conference put together to clarify where Ndigbo stand with regards to the up-coming gubernatorial and state assembly elections holding this Saturday and also to throw clarity to some issues that concern Ndigbo here in Lagos.

We, as Igbos living in Lagos made up of traditional rulers, market leaders, Market women, youths, civil society organizations, town unions and other categories of Igbo population in Lagos state as follows;

1. That we endorse and pledge support to the incumbent Governor of Lagos, His Excellency, Babajide Sanwo-Olu in his re-election bid. Our support for him is anchored on his performance, competence, cordial relationship with Igbos and his grand vision for Lagos, which has greatly favoured Igbos in the last four years.

Among all contestants for the tasking office of Lagos state Governor in the coming election, Sanwo-Olu is the best; tested and capable so we urge all Igbos to vote for him on Saturday for the continued benefits of Ndigbo.

2. We state unequivocally that Lagos is neither an Igbo State nor a no-man's land, as some provocatively state. Although Lagos was a former federal capital, it wholly belongs to Yorubas. We therefore dissociate ourselves from any claim that contravenes the fact that Lagos is a Yoruba state and emphatically state that Igbos are not subscribers to the weird position, marketed by mischief makers that Lagos is a no-man's land. And we pray that we may never use our mouths to say that Lagos is no man's land because Lagos is not a no-man's land. It is Yoruba land.


3. We state that a lot is at stake given the investment of our people in Lagos. Only a thoughtless tribe without minds of their own will toil with their destiny. Ndigbo will never toy with their destiny, their interests, their investment and their security in Lagos by going into any needless confrontation with the Yorubas who have been very accommodating, very hospitable and very cosmopolitan to Igbos in Lagos. While we thank the Yorubas for their understanding, we ask them to see those who want to instigate a fight between Yorubas and Igbos for their devious and selfish political interests, as not representing the Igbos as we urge Igbos to reciprocate this tolerance by voting for Sanwo-Olu and APC House of Assembly candidates this Saturday.

4. We want the Yorubas to Equally understand that In last week's presidential election, our son Peter Obi was on the ballot and that this generally drew the sentimental support of many Igbos, who voted for him. The result has shown that while majority Igbos voted for their son, majority Nigerians voted for our President-Elect. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. While this is understandable, we urge the Yorubas not to see the voting pattern last Saturday as an act of hostility but of democratic choice. This Saturday, Nigerians will vote on the governorship, election and we see it as a great opportunity for Igbos in Lagos to show that we are not political enemies of the Yorubas by voting en mass for Gov. Sanwo-Olu as no Igboman is contesting for the governorship of Lagos. Igbo should show love to Yoruba by voting Gov Sanwo Olu

5. We note that our South East region is troubled and has become a hotbed of insecurity and not safe for Ndigbo for a long time now. In this period. Lagos has absorbed millions of Igbos and their businesses fleeing from the insecurity in the South East. Gov. Sanwo-Olu has been particularly accommodative and the Yorubas have been magnanimous in taking in these Igbos. The governorship election is a payback time and Igbos should be careful not to show themselves as hostile and aggressive guests to Yorubas as that will spell doom for millions of Igbos, living peacefully and safely in Lagos and doing their businesses without let or hindrance. Let us vote Sanwo-Olu because he represents the interests of all Lagosians.

6. We want to assure the Yorubas that Igbos are not greedy as to plot to take over Lagos as some miscreants and hoodlums intent on causing crisis, are saying. We want Yorubas to know that those provocative statements and boasts are not by true Igbos. That such expression of ingratitude are made to drive wedges between the harmonious understanding Igbos enjoy with Yorubas in Lagos for over a century now. We want to assure Yorubas that Igbos are very much committed to this beneficial relationship and would do nothing to harm it. We will use the next Saturday election to demonstrate our commitment to this understanding and further cement our relationship with the Yorubas by voting massively for Sanwo-Olu who we project to enjoy massive victory in the gubernatorial election this Saturday.

Concluding: We totally and unconditionally declare that Igbos in Lagos will come Saturday, vote for the re-election of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and APC state assembly candidates and we urge every Igbo man in Lagos to do so for our overall interest.

Thank you all for your time.


Signed:

1. Peter Claver Oparah,


2. Kelvin Nwoha


3. Chima Ukwandu
Politics / Lagos Wake Up It's Never Too Late. by EquitableTech: 9:22pm On Mar 06, 2023
The current 1st lady of Ondo State Mrs Betty Akeredolu is from Imo State, she tried to contest for the senatorial seat of her State which is IMO but was denied on the grounds that she is married to a non-IBO and she is an ONDO woman and it's against their culture and tradition. So why should the Yorubas allow what the Ibos refused to accept in the East are we Yorubas that foolish or naive
ENUGU STATE say they CAN'T allow another man whose ANCESTRY was traced to EBONYI STATE to become Governor in Enugu.
Lagos wake up it's never too late.

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