₦airaland Forum

This people and rape

What kind of wickedness is this.

ArmedRobber:
asiwaju has endorsed and won 95% of his elections so shut the Bleep up.

Edo no be Lagos!

Aketi sef

Sifia pain in gbegiri nation.

Yobabad:
The only people who can shamelessly vote APC again in Nigeria are : (a) Yoruba Muslims (b) Niger Delta (C) southern kaduna, we have a reward for the first three people that gets correct answer

Yoruba Muslims.

Igbochief001:
I wonder why a human being would fight for a so called almighty God ....if he was offended why didn't he just kill the boy if he had any power what so ever

Must you guys always bring your tribe in every topic . This happened in the north, here you are dragging your tribe that have nothing to do with this issue. Nawa for una, always putting yourselves in an unnecessary unwarranted pressure.

Edo no be Lagos!

helinues:
How are you sure the North are not remitting gold sale % to FG? Or na mere say as usual?

Then you should have enumerated that question to him, rather than swinging approach. Go and read his submission again, he said he can't find gold in the exported resources.

helinues:
You could not find it cos those other region leaders are dumbo.....

There are so many natural resources to tap from but our leaders are not just creative..

Ordinary different types of rocks alone we have in SW is a big money not to talk of fertile lands for Agriculture

See how you're ridiculing yourself. Sammy asked a simple question(Why is money from gold sale from North not remitted to the fg accnt), you ended up reminding him that SW have other resources.

Helpfromabove1:
Pls summarize

Take your time to read it. You can do it

Prof Banji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba World Congress, the umbrella body of over 300 Yoruba groups worldwide, has said the Nigerian environment has been consistently harsh to the Yoruba people who dominate the South-West part of the country.

The elder statesman lamented that though his association is committed to peaceful activities, and peaceful purposes, the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has already begun to take action against it by removing the Yoruba World Congress from the list of state-registered organisations.

He also hinted that security forces are preparing to clamp down on members of his organisation whose aims are to promote and achieve the growth, prosperity, and sustenance of the Yoruba people and culture.

Akintoye spoke on Saturday on the occasion of this year’s General Assembly of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation which was held virtually due to travel restrictions imposed to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

Founded in 1991, the UNPO is an international membership-based organisation established to empower the voices of unrepresented and marginalised peoples worldwide and to protect their fundamental human rights.

At the General Assembly on Saturday, the Yoruba World Congress was inducted as a member of the UNPO alongside four others including the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra represented by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.

“From 1962 to 1972, under a limited self-government arrangement and federal constitution which the British granted to Nigeria, the Yoruba Nation proceeded to make mostly the Western region of Nigeria, the pacesetter in Nigeria, and even in Africa, in virtually all aspects of development and modernisation.

“But the Nigerian environment has consistently been hazardous to the Yoruba Nation. From the beginning, the British colonial rulers feared the considerably educated and professionally sophisticated Yoruba and proceeded to do everything to limit their influence in Nigeria. From the British, the tradition passed on to the non-Yoruba people of Nigeria that the Yoruba Nation needed to be stopped and to stop the Yoruba Nation became the constant purpose of Nigeria,” Akintoye told the Assembly.

He narrated, “At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, the British manipulated everything to impose the Hausa people and the Northern people of Nigeria and to have dominance over other arms and to exclude the Yoruba group from governance[/b].

“All the military coups from 1966 July to 1999 were led by military dictators from Northern Nigeria. This was so because the northern political elites whom the British had manipulated into political dominance over Nigeria at independence had used their control of federal powers to ensure the enrolment of Northern officers into military ranks.

“Inevitably, the Yoruba Nation was sucked into this deepening disaster. The military dictatorship seized important Yoruba assets that have been created in 1959. Most such assets were then poorly managed and or deliberately allowed to decline or even perished.

“Deepening poverty became the lot of the Yoruba Nation in Nigeria. Also, Yoruba leadership increasing fell for most of the mess like corruption characteristics of most public offices in Nigeria.

“In these circumstances, Yoruba people have progressively lost the enterprising spirit and the spirit of service to the society of which their nation has been known throughout history. The quality of their education has been destroyed. Yoruba language has declined and now faces the threat of extinction.

“Yoruba cocoa exports have dwindled almost to zero with the economy depressed, unemployment escalated recklessly among the Yoruba youths, forcing many to go into crimes, drug abuse, criminal cults and forcing many more to flee to other countries in the world. Yoruba youths are regularly many among western youths, who in desperation to reach Europe through the Saharan desert and the Mediterranean Sea, frequently die in the desert and drown in the sea.

“The Yoruba people are experiencing a degree of poverty, of loss of morale, of hopelessness, and of disorientation unknown in their history in spite of their much known cultural unity and in spite of their many exalted principles, the Yorubas always constantly disunited among ethnic groups in Nigeria.”

Akintoye told the Assembly of the insecurity such as kidnapping, banditry, farmer-herder clashes and many more that have pervaded the region.

He added, “Heavily armed Hausa and Fulani militiamen have been coming to Nigeria, rampaging and destroying villages and farms, killing rural dwellers and threatening to conquer the Yoruba Nation and to seize lands all over Yoruba land, even to banish the Yoruba Nation from their hometown and to bring Fulani folks from other countries of West Africa to seize and possess lands in Yorubaland.

“Countless Yoruba patriots and civil organisations and the patriots and organisations of other Nigerian people have greatly agitated for decades for a return to a truly federal existence but the people who control the central government have stubbornly employed the federal government powers to prevent such restructuring.

“Most of Yoruba people have now given up on the agitation for restructuring and have moved to the position that the Nigerian situation be sorted out through peaceful and friendly negotiations which will enable the Yoruba Nation and other nations that so choose to retrieve their self-determination and to pursue their own economic, political and cultural stabilisation, progress and prosperity


“The Yoruba World Congress which I have the honour to lead and which consists of thousands of Yorubas at home and in the Yoruba diasporan communities of the world has stepped forward to motivate the Yoruba people to defend their homeland and to prepare themselves for the accomplishment of their nation’s ultimate goal of self-determination and prosperity.

“Though our Yoruba Congress is less than one year old and even though we are known to be faithful and committed to peaceful activities, and peaceful purposes, the Nigerian government has already begun to take action against us. This past week, the Nigerian director of state security announced that all organisations like ours have been removed from the list of state-registered organisations and that the security forces are preparing to clamp down on members of such organisation.


“At this point when the Yoruba’s struggle for liberation and self-determination is reaching this height, it is a great thing that we have the opportunity to be working with the UNPO. We are committed to peaceful means only and we will not, it is part of our constitution that we will not let any situation push us into violence and we believe that peaceful means can achieve the purpose of which we stand.”

https://punchng.com/nigeria-unsafe-for-yoruba-banji-akintoye/?amp=1

The same nonsense .

Shameless people everywhere

Here is a list of prominent Nigerians who have died in July, 2020:

Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua
The former President of Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua died after driving himself to a hospital.

Funtua, born in Funtua in January 1942, was a Second Republic Minister of Water Resources in the late President Shehu Shagari administration and a member of the Constitutional Conference convoked by the late military dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.

Until his death, Funtua was one of the most influential politicians and businessmen in the country. He died on July 20.

In the early 1980s, he established The Democrat, an all-colour newspaper in Kaduna which became authoritative on political matters. His construction firm, Bulet, became a household after constructing the magnificent Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.

He was a life patron of the NPAN and also a patron of the International Press Institute (IPI). He attended the Commercial College in Zaria, Federal Training Centre in Kaduna, the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, the University of Manchester, and was the Monitor-General of Course 9 of the Senior Executive Course at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies.

Tolulope Arotile
Arotile’s young career was halted on July 14, a Tuesday, when, according to the NAF, she was “inadvertently hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force secondary school classmate while trying to greet her” in Kaduna.

Born in 1995, she was admitted into the Nigerian Defence Academy on September 22, 2012 and commissioned five years later.

She made history in October 2019 when she was winged as Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot in the Air Force’s 55 years of existence.

An official release by the Nigerian Air Force says as of October 2019, Tolulope had acquired 460 hours (about 19 days) of flight within 14 months in flying a helicopter.

She was a native of Iffe area of Ijumu LGA of Kogi State and fourth child of her family attended the Air Force Primary (2000—2005) and Secondary Schools (2006—2011), Kaduna.

Hon. Tunde Buraimoh
The Chairman, Committee on Information and Strategy of the Lagos Assembly, Tunde Buraimoh, died on July 10.

The late Buraimoh, who represented Kosofe Counstituency 2, was an active and eloquent member of the House.

Some of the lawmakers described Buraimoh’s death as a rude shock.

Aminu Adisa Logun
The late Aminu Adisa Logun was the Chief of Staff to Kwara Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, said Logun died of COVID-19 complications, only few hours after result of test carried out on him returned positive.

He was 73.

He was described as an industrialist, a public intellectual and an elder statesman.

Nomoreloss’ widow, Adeola Osinuga
The wife of late singer Nomoreloss, Adeola Osinuga also died in July, 2020.

Family sources said she died after battling a chronic ailment Fibromyalgia for over four years.

She was an On-Air Personality (OAP) with Rhythm 93.7 FM before she took ill.

It was gathered the ailment took a big toll, keeping her hospitalised and away from work.

Popular radio presenter, Iya Jogbo
A popular Max FM Lagos radio presenter, Emmanuella Pobeni Adepoju, popularly known as Iya Jogbo, died on July 24.

According to the management of TVC Communications, owners of TVC, TVC News and Max FM Lagos and Abuja, Iya Jogbo died after a brief illness from bronchitis and an enlarged heart.

She was popular with the Wetin Dey show on Max FM.

AbdulGaniyu Folorunsho Abdul-Razaq
The First Republic minister and ambassador to Ivory Coast, Alhaji AbdulGaniyu Folorunsho Abdul-Razaq, was the first lawyer from Northern Nigeria and father of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State.

He was 93.

The remains of the elder statesman were interred at his Idi-Igba family house in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, in accordance with Islamic traditions.

Yoruba actor, Yusuf Satia
He was a popular Yoruba actor and singer.

Yusuf’s death was announced on Instagram by his popular colleague, Adekunle Afod.

Dr. Michael Adeyeri
The late Dr. Michael Adeyeri was a former chairman of the Ondo State chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA).

He reportedly died of COVID-19 complications.

Adeyeri died at the Federal Medical Centre, Owo.

Jide Odekunle
The late Jide Odekunle was a former General Manager of the Lagos State Infrastructure Maintenance and Regulatory Agency (LASMRI).

Odekunle served under former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration for four years and 11 months.

He was until his death the Bobagunwa of Egbaland.

Major General Sam Momah(Rtd)
Former Minister of Science and Technology, Major General Sam Momah (Rtd.) died on July 29.

He died on July 29 after complicated diabetic issues at 77.

Pa Ayo Fasanmi
A prominent elder statesman and leader of Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere, Senator Ayo Fasanmi, died on July 30 at 94.

https://thenationonlineng.net/12-prominent-nigerians-who-died-in-july-2020/

Today in History. 45 years ago, on 29 July 1975: Gen. Yakubu Gowon, President of Nigeria, was in Kampala attending the OAU meeting when he heard--via one of his aides--that he had been ousted from office in a military coup.

Reuters captured the moment when Gowon was given the news.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfGF3HwSMrc

I wish I can get every youth in South South to think differently. It hurts me that people don't see a different picture from the same lens

OneDollarSalary:
Watch how Yorubas and Tifnubu e-rodents will blast these group and calling them names all because of the drug dealer's 2023 ambition.

restructure or divide the doom country. Nigeria is dead.

Kiss the truth

Tinubu might create a faction this night to counter them , or find a way to infiltrate their ranks.

Yoruba Summit Group, on Thursday, warned that any attempt to go ahead with the 2023 general elections, without addressing the issue of restructuring, would spell doom for the country.

The group also expressed worry that the ship of state is veering off, noting that Nigeria was at the edge of political subsidence.

This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting of Yoruba Summit Group on the State of Yoruba Nation in Nigeria.

The communiqué was signed by Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo on behalf of the Yoruba Summit Group.

The communiqué read in part: “The preponderance of permutations for 2023 presidency, zoning, selecting, rather than addressing the nature of the Nigerian union, the dilapidated structure of the farcical federation, never known to Federalism, this unitary unworkable morass;


“We, the Yoruba, observe that all these will only lead to the kind of chaos never before seen and experienced in history.

“We, the Yoruba nation, therefore, reject the holding of a general election before restructuring Nigeria fiscally and structurally.

“With the granting of licenses for prospecting for gold in Yorubaland, we are aware of the dangers banditry, kidnapping and sundry criminalities this portends.

“The Yoruba nation has noted with great interest, the creation of the Amotekun security network in the South-West states.


“We extend our warmest felicitations to the governors who have started in earnest to fulfill the task of filing the huge gulf of various serious insecurity issues plaguing our region.

“We, hereby, call on states yet to put this structure in place to do so in earnest. The Yoruba do not forget.

“Therefore, for this moment and for a future uncertain, for posterity and the prescient nature of our wisdom in foretelling a coming catastrophe, as was wont of our late sage and leader, Papa Obafemi Awolowo, we, the Yoruba, have come to this irreducible, irreplaceable conclusions;

“That the ship of state is veering off precariously into a precipice, and that Nigeria is at the very edge of political subsidence.

“We are persuaded that nothing short of restructuring can save this country. Any attempt to go ahead with elections in 2023 without addressing the issue of restructuring would spell doom for Nigeria.”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/07/2023-nigeria-either-restructures-or-face-doom-yoruba-summit/

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)

We have decided to carve out our own NATION STATE out of Nigeria. THE OODUA NATION. We have reached the limit of our endurance with Nigeria. We are tired of being slaves in our own land. Our people do not deserve to be poor. They don't deserve to live in poverty. Their choice is never to live squalor. We did not at any time sign any contract with any group of persons, Nations or countries that we are giving up our rights to self determination. Our promise to ourselves and our people is "Life abundant" as eloquently articulated by Obafemi Awolowo in his philosophy of social contract with the people, called AWOISM.

We are resolved to have a date with our DESTINY. We are resolved to be free. We are resolved to be the captains of our own souls. We hope to have this done by peaceful means. But if we have to fight, so be it. There is no making the omelette without breaking the egg. Any fight in the protection of our heritage is worth it. Any fight in the protection of our land is worth it. Any fight in the protection of our women is worth it. Any fight in the protection of our children is worth it. Any fight to remove the shackles from our ankles is worth it. Any fight to gain our dignity is worth it. Any fight to set us and the generation unborn free is worth it.

As Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “No one can make you a slave without your consent.” Our membership of Nigeria has worked out as slavery and robbed us of the orderly political and social environment in which to employ our God-given capabilities to pursue our development and progress. Our decision, arrived at in utmost humility to the opinions of mankind and with hope in the approval and support of the Creator and Ruler of all nations, is that it is time for us to have a separate, independent and sovereign country of our own in the world. We have resolved to have our OÒDUÀ NATION.

Remi Oyeyemi
Yes, we are very confident that this will happen. We have no scintilla of doubt that this must happen. We are confident of the support of the heavenly armies that this will happen. We are sure of the the orígun mérìndínllógún ilè Oòduà have lined up for this. All the spirits of our heroes past in Oòduà Land are in support of this. All the spirits of the martyrs of Oòduà Land are line up for this. It is our Àyànmó tí kò gb'óògùn. Yes, it is our manifest DESTINY - OÒDUÀ NATION.

We have no idea of the timeline because it depends on a lot of factors. The Yoruba are very deliberative and circumspective and they never rush to take decisions. They will do whatever they need to do at the appropriate time. But, we want to assure you that it is going to be unstoppable when this occurs. Presently, a lot of things are being put in place. All ramifications are being considered and prepared for. All possible impediments, internally and externally are being considered and prepared for. Majority of Yoruba people are tired of Nigeria. We think we can do better on our own. We believe it is our destiny to be free from Nigeria and nothing will be able to impede the realization of that destiny. Nothing will impede the imminence of OÒDUÀ NATION.

This coming OÒDUÀ NATION is inevitable to say the obvious. No army could stop it. No Airforce could impede its march. No Navy could swim against its tide. No amount of bullion vans could buy it off. No internal enemies would survive it. Yes, internal enemies in their usual perfidious l ways would try, but as usual, they would fail. No amount of external collaborators would succeed again it. OÒDUÀ NATION is an idea which time has come. "Ideas do not create crisis, it is crisis that creates idea," so postulated Fidel Castro. OÒDUÀ NATION IS HERE.

As to our viability, the new Oodua Nation will in terms of land size (inland and coast water area as recognized by the United Nations) be bigger in land area than Germany, Italy, and United Kingdom. Oodua Nation would be about 9 times bigger than Denmark, almost 13 times bigger than Belgium, over 4 times bigger than Portugal, over 10 times bigger than Switzerland, one of the places where the politicians of Nigeria like to hide their stolen money and over 17 times bigger than the State of Israel!

In population, it will be bigger than Canada, bigger than Great Britain about 2 times, bigger than Portugal about 4 times, Norway about 9 times, Belgium about 4 times, Sweden about 4 times, Denmark about 8 times, Switzerland about 5 times, Israel about 5 times and bigger than Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales put together

In terms of economic resources, the most important thing is the human resources. We need not the oil, even though we have some. We have a lot of arable land. We will revive our agriculture as a base for industrialization with application of technology. We will create an economy that would be the envy of others and once again set pace for the rest of Africa. But our focus would be on a lot of other things some of which we would rather not talk about right now, for strategic reasons. We would posit that development economists tell us that the reason why a nation tends to make faster progress technologically, economically and politically after it becomes an independent Nation, is to be found in cultural homogeneity.

Japan is just a string of Islands without any oil. It has the world’s three best selling cars in world history without having any steel or able to grow any rubber plantation to make tyres. It has economically conquered the world. Look at the State if Israel, what does it have and how big is it that all the Arabs are powerless at its feet. The age of Metuselah is nothing compared to the Wisdom of Solomon. The bigness of a country is not directly proportional to its prosperity, power and prestige. Check out Norway and other Scandinavian countries to appreciate this fact.

It is meaningless to assume that bigness is everything. Statistics and facts available does not support that bigness is always a good thing. When Muammar Gaddafi visited Nigeria in 1982. His first statement at the Murtala Mohammed Airport was “Some nations are big for nothing,” as a way to express his disappointment in Nigeria.

Our detractors often try to suggest that the Yoruba are disunited. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Yoruba are very united. Do not buy the bogus propaganda that we are divided. We are ONE because we are children of the same father. We will rally together. We will build a country that will be the envy of the others. We will demonstrate that the Blackman is not cursed. We will through sheer hard work and determination which are our hallmarks build a country that its peoples will be very proud and the world will have no choice but to respect. We will revitalize our culture. We will re-engage with our values. We will restructure and modernize our language just as the Jews did to Hebrew after the creation of the Israeli nation in 1948.

We have done it before. We will do it again. We know what we have to do to take our seat in the comity of Nations. We just want to appeal to our brothers and sisters, all sons and daughters of Oodua that in this quest for Oodua Nation, we can not afford the luxury of illusions of impractical ideas, we can not afford the comfort of inaction, we can not afford to cower in fear, we can not afford the delusions of greatness as a member of a failed state where our heritage is being disparaged on daily basis, where the future of our children have been foreclosed, where we can never reach the height of our potentials. Like Benjamin Franklin once posited, those who gave up their liberty for their safety deserves neither their liberty nor safety.

Oodua Nation will be born. It is the destiny of the Yoruba people to be free and to give a lasting legacy to their children, posterity and the world.

Welcome to OÒDUÀ NATION!

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."
-John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1960

© Rèmí Oyèyemí

http://saharareporters.com/2020/07/22/welcome-o%C3%B2du%C3%A0-nation-r%C3%A8m%C3%AD-oy%C3%A8yem%C3%AD

orisa37:
YORUBA MEANS SAVED RACE.

ODUDUWA MEANS ANOINTED RACE.

YOU'RE IFAYEMI.

MY MOTHER WHO DIED IN 1970 AT 70 WAS IFATOLA.

YORUBAS ARE NEITHER SLAVES NOR IDIOTS.

YORUBAS KNOW WHO THEY'RE BY DIVINE WISDOM.

Do you know more than the traditionalist

A renown traditionalist and the Araba of Osogbo, Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon said prior to contact with the Hausa/Fulani, the race is known as the people of Ife, saying it is unfortunate that the people failed to coin a word to call the race before coming into contact with the Hausas.

According to him, the Yoruba race is usually referred to as ‘aku’ in the very early stage because of the way the people greet each other.

He agreed that the race was given the name Yarriba from which it became Yoruba, saying the earliest leaders of the race failed to have a collective name.

Elebuibon added that the race ought to be called the people of Ife, saying that was how Ifa referred to the race.

He said, “we are Ife people, it is rather unfortunate that we didn’t have one word to comprise all Yoruba before Fulani or Hausa gave us Yarriba to become Yoruba ‘aku’ is the words they used for us in beginning because we used to greet each other by saying ‘aku owuro’, ‘Aku asaale’ it is aku people or anago that other Africans referred to us”.

He opined that since the people originate from Ile-Ife, the race is ought to be known the people of Ife,

“Actually since Yoruba origins is at Ile Ife ‘Eni fe abi ara Ile Ife Loye ka ma je’, we are indigenous people of Ootu Ife”, he added.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/yoruba-does-not-exist-in-ifa-%E2%80%95-elebuibon/amp/