₦airaland Forum

okokomeji:
Yes, we called it oil not Oyel like you.

[Yoruba achievement and success before Arab and European invasion:]
we set pace over the course of centuries. We built the first story building, the first school, the first ammunition “Basukka local guns,” the first Urbanized cities across Africa, the first and ony tribe with highest twins' or multiple birth in world history, while your people still walking around butt naked in the bush we had local woven fabric “A so o fi,” first scuptor and most superior and distinct of all African art and artifact and the strongest military built up in the whole Africa by Oranyamiyan. This Yoruba warrior had a tall staff to commemorate his lost solders during tribal wars. The staff became a prototype for National monument in Washington DC, built by USA’s military to commemorate their solders too.


[Three years’ assessment after the self-autonomy government of 1956:]
Yoruba people, the largest homogenous ethnic group in Africa, are highly urbanized. Yorubaland boasts of some of the Flourishing cities in Africa
Each of the more than 20 cities in Yorubaland has a population of over a million inhabitants. When in 1959 the British colonial government conducted a census of Nigeria, out of the ten most populous and strategic cities, eight ( were located in Yorubaland. These are: Lagos, lbadan, Ogbomosho, Ilorin, Oyo, Abeokuta, Oshogbo, Ijebu-Ode, Ado-Ekiti and Akure.
The Yoruba race boasts of an array of highly qualified professionals. The naked truth it is that it parades the highest number of intellectuals on the continent of Africa, a tradition bequeathed to the race by her early access to Western education. The Literacy levels in Yorubaland are above 70% while 40% of the literates are qualified professionals of diverse disciplines and professionals careers.

[Few weeks before independence’s assessment:]
Yorubas under self-regional government took a giant stride of 60% in health, education, culture, industrialization, infrastructures in the entity called Nigeria.
@@@@Irk-man00, they said somebody older than you and you said is by little? You must completely be on powder! It might just take you two millenniums to get to where he's at! Just proof me wrong on this fact!

Negro_Ntns:
Who are all these people talking about Yoruba this and Yoruba that. . .?  Eh, who arethese people?

Here s the bottom line, your ethnic group have failed you in the central conference.  You dont go to an interview for a job and blame the interviewer for failing you.  You have the responsibility to understand the nature of job interview, to know how to read personalties and most important to understand your own capability to influence and then make tha capabiity work in your favor.  If you didnt get the job, its not because the interviewer was bad. . . its because you needto improve your skills and win him/her over.  It's simple!!!!  

In history, no government authority has ever succeeded in eradicating a political movement.  Never. . . !!  Grassroot political movements are the backbone of a strong political power.  Movements inch their way into the center, not away from it.  The way you do it is you become a political opponent to the mainstream.  If on the other hand you abandon your political aspirations and instead start demonstrating guerilla activities. . . then guess what,  You drift further away into marginalization.   MEND is digging its grave.

If I were a MEND leader I will send delegate to Fashola and the people of Lagos and apologize and reinstate our grievances against the FG and solicit his help in negotiating a sustainable inclusion.  I  have been lamenting on NEGOTIATIONS now for some time.  Everyone will agree that Fashola is a very skilled negotiator and have tremendous influence with the FG.  Who is better to have on your side than such a man?  

To those of you wondering why Yorubas outsmart other groups.  In a political culture. . . you do not need frce, you need strategy.   Th Yoruba style ought to be a good model for those ethnic groups that want political survival.  The greatest of the Northern warriors, Usman Dan Fodio himself based his seven Hausa states on the model of a very successful and ancient Oyo strategy for Imperial power and dominion.  It worked for the Yorubas through the ages and it is still working today althgough the aplication evolves based on the circumstance on the ground.  
The Yoruba throws punches in the air and raises dust with his feet. . . but while you are wondering when his physical blow is going to land . . . he has done far more damage with his brain and you are the victim in that spol,

shesi:
that is absolutely completely wrong. If you got that from some school i'd get a refund for my tuition if i were you. lol

MandingoII:
Yo slut MOMMA and that Whitetrash daddy of yours.

after all your whitetrash raped your momma in the back woods

savanaha:
I don't think even those suffering are organized enough to realize any of the above and thats just the way the current go-no-where governemt wants it.

savanaha:
Thanks Fayahsoul. I was wondering what would be the answer to the question you posed for me.

savanaha:
That's not me. And I agree that the internet is not the means to start a revolution or whatever. Maybe it can be used to show the world or update on whats going on but it will never do the ground work. Most of the people suffering the most do not have access to the interenet. It would be great if we (youths) could do something but I think it unfair for those presently far removed from the problem to incite a riot.
I wish people would say that they have had enough and stand up but then am not in Nigeria. . . which means I will not ask others to risk their lives while I will be on Nairaland.

platinumnk:
@fayahsoul
I would take MJ over u anytime
u say ure older but u think like a child in highschool? does ur beauty pay my bills, does it have a brain for itself? Guys that focus on their handsomness instead of their success are gay.

Terry1:
I think that starts with us (the youth), we can make things right by first of all, we that are internet literates, lets wipe any thought of making illegal money online out of our minds. If internet scam (yahoozee among others, which is basically coming from the youth) is wiped out of Nigeria, that will be one big step to eradicating 419 in Nigeria.

If we sit down and think and search with determination and prayerfully, we can always see some legal business on the internet.

That is just one step of changing Nigeria. Its in our hands, its our country, its our burden, its our name that's in the mud.

What do you think?

rubi:
Ndi Igbo unu ari kpuo la. onye sha ala owerri arighi ya nma ya kwara li
If owerri land no sweet you commot for road make better people see road pass

I like that  .

savanaha:
Yes Nigeria is corrupt and there are other not so corrupt countries that Obama did not visit. Rather than people bothering with the fact that Obama did not visit Nigeria what needs to be done is for Nigeria to be fixed.

topup:
[color=#008855]I could get away with using either, because of the dialect in my area, disinterested is used in cases where uninterested could be used. I meant he lost interest in me, uninterested, but I could have gotten away with meaning that he became unaffected by me too  .
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topup:
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More recently I used to be intimidated more so when the guys seemed really keen or attracted to me (I'm great at sensing attraction) - I get somewhat tense and aware that they are checking me out - not just listening to what I'm saying but who knows, maybe they're imagining me without clothes on (I know it sounds crazy), or what it would be like to kiss me (as the gaze lingers on my lips), but their eyes used to bore into me, and I was scared that they would at one point become disinterested in me, when they psyche themselves out ("she's too young.", "she sounds a little hard to get." blah blah blah), and I can sense the moment that they close off the possibilities.