₦airaland Forum

famouscargo4u:
The LG will take care pf the LCDA within their jurisdiction

How? This I guess will eacalate to something else. As Chairman of Local government, I cant share my allocation with unauthorised entity because LCDA is not recognised by the constitution

Now that the 774 Local Government Councils in Nigeria are set to enjoy their financial autonomy, as their respective allocations would now be paid directly to them from the Federal government, it is believed that the new resolution might appear as threat to the LCDAs created by some State governors but which never recognised by the Federal government.

Unlike before when the LG allocation used to be paid into state account and the state governor now decides on what to do with it, the system is about to change now and the sharing formular will likely not be the same.

In South west, states like Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Osun may be subjected to internal crisis by this new resolution. Lagos and Ogun are have 20lgs each recognised by the constitution but which had been split to become 57. The 20lgs on the new autonomy policy will not have to depend on the state as they will be earninh directly into their pus which state government has no authority over anymore.

In this case, how will the LCDA be sustained? Will the LCDA be scraped ?

Please, we need to be educated on this issue. We appeal to both political and economic analysts to enlighten us.

watching in 3D

WHY TINUBU MUST BE BLAMED!
By
Olaitan Odukoya

A concerned Yoruba Elder, Mr. Olaitan Odukoya in an interview on the issue of insecurity as it affects Yorubaland, raised an eye brow against the attitudes of the self acclaimmed Yoruba leaders who are more fascinated to any course for their personal benefits than for posterity sake.

Odukoya got furious in responding to question of who to blame on the level of insecurity ravaging the entire yoruba land. In his words:

"I blame Tinubu and all the SW Governors who sold their Omoluabi for a mess of Asaro!

What happened when Hausas killed Yorubas in Mile 12 in 2016 and the security agencies prevented our people from defending themselves, what did Tinubu and the Governor do?

They allowed Rabiu Kwankwanso to bail out the over 70 arrested suspects and he immediately took them up North. Till today justice has eluded the dead and those whose houses were burnt. No Special Investigation Panel was constituted, the displaced were not caterred for by both LASG and NEMA. OPC could not intervene because Tinubu and co , to satisfy their Masters , had accused both OPC and Afenifere of being stooges of Jonathan/PDP.

When Chief Olu Falae was kidnapped by this same Fulani terrorists (now that is not my word. The Miyetti Allah that my friend and Garba Shehu try to pass off as similar to Afenifere and Ohaneze, is adjudged the 4th MOST DANGEROUS TERRORISTS GROUP IN THE WORLD!!!) -what did Tinubu and his Governors do ? Nothing.

It was Afenifere, OPC and patriotic Yoruba elders who raised their voices.

When the same Hausa caused mayhem in Ile -Ife and the Ifes rightly defended themselves. The FG responded by arresting only one party to the conflict including an Oba and whisked them out of jurisdiction to Abuja. What did Tinubu, Ogbeni Aregbesola and the other Governors do? Nothing Sir.

When Ijaw Militants made Ikorodu, Epe, Arepo, Ogijo (kidnapping, oil bunkering), Sagamu, Ijebu Ode, Ago Iwoye and Ijebu Igbo (Bank Robbery) uninhabitable (Not all the towns except Arepo which is Egba are Ijebu towns) what did Tinubu and our Governors do? Nothing.

It was Afenifere that met with Ijaw leaders and it was resolved that Yorubas have never attacked Ijaws and it was agreed that the Yorubas should defend themselves against the Ijaw Militants. Infact Lagos Govt was daily denying there was Security challenge. It wasn't until our own daughter the Deputy Was attacked by Ijaw Militants in Arepo that the State Governments took it serious. The Airforce came and bombed the Ijaw Militants out of the creeks.

When Badoo was daily killing innocent people in Ijebuland (Ogijo, Odogunyan and Ikorodu) what did Tinubu and his Governors do? God bless Edgal Imohinmi , who as , DCP Operations under a Yoruba man (Commissioner of Police Fatai Owoseni) coopted OPC and Onyabo (the indigenous Ikorodu Vigilante Group) and within 2 weeks ended the reign of terror Badoo unleashed on Ikorodu and Ogijo. All these are recent history and are verifiable.

Where was Tinubu when few weeks to Elections Commissioner Edgal , who secured Lagos , was replaced by Tinubu's former CSO? As at today , none of our elected political leaders in Yorubaland is pursuing our collective interested. They are more interested in building Personal Fortresses .

Of course ,nothing last for ever. Our culture, tradition, ethos, religions and philosophy has been tested by slavery, Jihad, Colonialism, invasion of foreign religions and way of life- We survived them all albeit with some injuries. We will also survive our today's Kenimani political leaders lagbara Eledumare.

Though this can never happen

REVIVING BILIKISU SUNGBO TOURIST CENTRE IN OKE-ERI, IJEBULAND

The entire people of Oke-Eri Kingdom felicitate with Prince (Dr.) Dapo Abiodun on his victory as the Governor-elect of Ogun state, with mandate to take the entire Ogun State to a greater height. It is our prayer for divine enablement for his successful tenure.

Furthermore, on behalf of good people of Ijebuland under the Paramount rulership of His Royal Majesty, Alayeluwa, Oba S. K. Adetona – The Awujale of Ijebuland, the traditional authority of Oke-Eri Kingdom hereby appeals to Prince Dapo Abiodun to please accept this correspondence as our plea towards your good office as newly elected Governor of Ogun State to revive the BILIKISU SUNGBO TOURIST CENTRE - the global attraction of Ijebuland.

Tourism all over the world has been on the increase both in the developed and developing countries. It has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world in terms of revenue generation and has been recognized as one of the most reliable indicators of socio-economic growth in any part of the world. And being one of the focal points in your manifesto Sir, the entire Ijebu kingdom hereby call your attention to the neglect and dilapidation of the SUNGBO Shrine and request for your swift rescue to the advantage of the entire Ijebuland.

In Nigeria, Ogun state remains one of the states that have been blessed with natural potentials amongst which include tourism resources, like OLUMO ROCK in Egba Province and BILIKISI SUNGBO SHRINE in Ijebu Province.

It is conspicuous that Olumo Rock has been upgraded, developed and promoted to the economic advantage of Egba Province. Meanwhile, the BILIKISU SUNGBO tourist centre in Ijebu Province, a global attraction that have received lots of attention from scholars in archaeology and other disciplines, and also government of Ogun State in the past with the goal of making it a befitting tourist destination has remained in a poor state, begging for the attention of the State government for its revival.

Hence, Bilikisu Sugbon is the believed biblical Queen of Sheba who hailed from Ethiopia where she is known as Queen Balqis. The Bilikisu Sungbo’s tomb which had been converted to a shrine in Oke-Eri community was identified as a tourist site by the Ogun State government in the 1980s before it was abandoned in the 1990s. The National Commission for Museum and Monuments (NCMM) declared it a national monument in 1994. Despite that, the NCMM has not done anything to make the site attractive for tourists. Even, previous administration of Ogun State government through the State Tourism Board once built some structures at the site but which have been abandoned and collapsed.

Through the works of Archaeologists from University of Ibadan; five tourists site have been identified and carved out from Bilikisu Sugbon complementing one another. The tourism resources at the site have been designed to include: The Moat, The Tomb; The botanical garden; The zoological garden, The Museum, The pottery craft house, Swimming pools, Children playing ground, Guest house and Relaxation centre.

Hence, the vision towards the reality of promoting the centre to the international standard has been the long plight of the Paramount Ruler of Ijebuland. It is on this note the Ijebuland crave for your intervention to revisit the project either through direct investment or encouraging public-private-partnership (PPP) initiative, in order, to redeem the image of the attraction, foster socio-economic growth of the Province.

Though, the former Governor of the State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel attempted the revival of the tourist attraction during his administration, but the government was only able to develop a master plan for the revival of the attraction and also started the construction of a new entrance gate house at the Oke-Eri site but the construction was not completed before the expiration of his tenure in office. The current governor of Ogun State (Senator Ibikunle Amosun), since the commencement of his second term in office in 2015, has also shown interest in the revival of the Bilikisu Sungbo tourist attraction, but as at today no physical commitment or construction has been made at the site to show commencement of developmental projects in the area.

The host community, Oke-Eri is a prominent ancient community famous for its strategic location as an integral transport route that connects with the rest of the towns in the pre-colonial era. Up till 1913, the Shoshos, Fulanis, the Kanuris, the Egbas, the Ibadans, the Oyos and Ekitis had used the old path through Oke Eri to Ejirin market for their slavery transaction then. The formal route to Ibadan from Ijebu Ode was through Oke Eri which directly link Ijebu Igbo and several other mini communities along. This same road has been abandoned but seeking the intervention of our Governor-Elect.

Subsequently, Oke-Eri has been identified as the early ancient settlements of the old Ijebu kingdom in which the legend queen, Bilikisu Sungbo reigned. The economic activity in Oke-Eri is very low and there is a high level of poverty in the community despite the tourism potentials present there. Reviving the Bilikisu-Sungbo tourist site and opening the major road that connects several rural areas is believed would help in reducing poverty and enhances the socio-economic status of the general Ijebuland.

Finally Sir, the entire people of Ijebuland appeal to Prince (Dr.) Dapo Abiodun to revisit the revival of the Tourist centre for the sake of possible employment and promotion of the economic activities of Ijebu area.

Longlive Ogun State
Longlive Ijebuland
Longlive Oke-Eri Kingdom


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The next OBI OF ONITSHA is going to be Obasanjo.

KABIYESI ALAYELUWA OBA OKIKIOLU UCHECHUKWU OBASANJO OYEJEKWE

buhariguy:
that means thief is alcamerooni by blood and fulani by heritage.

BEWARE OF THE gods

OBJ resembles one of the Anambra deities

It has been confirmed that the Igwe Onyejekwe of Onitsha that ruled from 1962- 1970 was the biological father of the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

Onyejekwe lived in Abeokuta for years before being recalled home to be made King. He also lived in Owu where he met the mother of OKIKIOLU and got married. but Obj has not debunked that he was born by this late Igbo King of Onitsha, rather he was caught saying in his proverbial manner that he knows one day he shall become the OBI OF ONITSHA.

Obi Onyejekwe was a Policeman in Owu in the early 1940's and Obasanjo's mother was a live-in concubine. It was said the man left Obasanjo's mother in pregnancy at OWU to claim his ancestral seat as OBI of ONITSHA.

A chief who is privy to the raw fact stated convincingly that OBJ denial of his Igbo lienage was the blame of the father who abanoned his mother with pregnancy.

But as at now it appears Obasanjo is on his spade work to ensure he is titled THE OBI OF ONITSHA

WHO AND WHO SIGNED NIGERIAN AMALGAMATION IN 1914?




Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in 1904(was 10years old when the 1914 treaty was signed)

– Obafemi Awolowo was born in 1909(was 5years old when the 1914 treaty was signed)

– Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born in 1912(was 2years old before it was signed)

– Ahmadu Bello was born in 1910(was 4years old before it was signed)

– Michael Okpara was born in 1920(the treaty has been signed 6years before he was born)

Who and who signed these papers on 1914 and called it amalgamation of the Northern Region and Southern Region, that we shall live together as one family without War, Marginalization, Conflict of interest and crisis?

These Nationalists I mentioned above are still sucking breast at the time of this agreement.

Our problems started in 1914 because we don’t know who signed it and their names and their intentions for signing it.

If they so called imperialists white signed it in the midnight while we were sleeping, the cock has crown, we have brushed our teeth, and taken our bath. Our eyes have opened to look for the amalgamation treaty and do something about it. No Northerner can sleep with his eyes closed in the Southern part of Nigeria and no Southerner can do the same in the North. Inter marriage is a Taboo.

After 100years we are still importing toothpicks, going abroad for medical checkup, our lucrative cash crops has gone to moribund, Education for all by the year 2050, Unemployment is a baptismal name for graduates, a police officer cannot boast of his work because of vestige of his salary, our Obasanjo Space Center and Satellite Office at Abuja can not trace the location of Sambisa Forest.

And I repeat it again, who and who signed this treaty?

Nigerians, when the foundation is faulty, wetin we go fit do now!

It is an ancestral clause and we deserve to get rid of it.

https://princegmoneysblog.com.ng/2019/04/17/who-signed-the-1914-amalgamation-prince-gmoney-owojaiye/?fbclid=IwAR2OE6Z9eWFglF2B1IOk_sWfseMOFs9ttePit7kN5fA74353SoBYCjTww9I

Shelumiel:
Make Boyz sign prenuptial agreement before these gold-digging harlots take over our hard-earned property

you dis guy, u bad o

DIVORCE YOUR WIFE , LOSE YOUR HOUSE TO HER , OYO COURT RULES

By Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare On Mar 2, 2019

A woman that has children for her husband and had married him before a house is built has the right to live in the house with her children even after divorce under the provisions of the Married Woman Property Act 1882, a court held on Friday in Ibadan, Oyo State.

The belief that patriarchy is so entrenched in the Nigerian system and women have no rights even under the law has been proved to be an erroneous one, majorly propounded by those ignorant of the rights provided under the law, the court said in a landmark judgement.

The provisions of the Married Woman Property Act 1882 formed the basis of the pronouncement of the Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Munta Abimbola, on Friday in a property suit between a divorced couple, Toyin Arajulu, formerly known as Mrs Toyin James and her former husband, Mr James Monday.

The court held that “a husband who marries a wife and builds a house during the pendency of the marriage stands the risk of losing that house if he later divorces the woman who had children for him unless such woman, of her own volition, leaves the matrimonial home.”

Justice Abimbola, while ruling on the matter, emphasised what is known in law as the “palm tree justice,” which indicates that it does not matter in whose name the property stands or who pays what (on the property) and in what proportion as determination of such matters transcends all rights, legal or even equitable, but simply what order is fair and just in the circumstances of the case, citing the case of Home Vs Home (1962) 1 WLR 1124 at 1128.S 17 Married Woman Property Act 1882, which is a statute of general application.

Toyin Arajulu had filed the suit against her ex-husband, Monday James, who she married under Native Law and Customs in 1997 and for whom she had four children.

She claimed that while she was married to him, they had put resources together and built two flats of three bedrooms at Ayedun in Akure, Ondo State and procured a plot of land at No 7, Fadana Biala Estate, Olodo, Ibadan, where they built a three-bedroom flat and a storey building which is still under construction before their divorce in July 2014.

She averred that before the divorce, her husband had moved out of their matrimonial home in Olodo but only came constantly to try to forcibly eject her and the children, usually accompanied by thugs who attacked her and her children.

She added that on August 15, 2014, one of her children, Bidemi James, was wounded in one of the episodes of attempted violent eviction and the sum of N530,000 from her business taken by her ex-husband and his accomplices.

She claimed that he had concluded plans to sell off the joint property without her consent and had continued to victimise her and the children, asking the court for a declaration that the property is jointly owned by the two of them and an order that the landed property with the three-bedroom flat and uncompleted storey building be sold and proceeds divided equally between them and an order of perpetual injunction restraining James from harassing her and the children.

In his counter claim and defence, the ex-husband stated that when he bought and constructed the Akure property, his wife was a full housewife and had no contribution to the project, adding that the situation was the same for the Ibadan property as his wife only signed as a witness as she had no job and only depended on what he gave her to take care of the children when he travelled out of the country.

According to him, she was only trying to fraudulently take over his property, adding that her claims were vexatious, gold digging and an abuse of court process.

He also asked the court to declare that the receipts of purchase his ex-wife presented were forged and that she should vacate possession of the property which she had refused to give up despite service of statutory seven days owner’s intention to recover possession and perpetual injunction restraining her from occupying the building.

Justice Abimbola, while ruling on the case, held that the landed property at No 7, Fadana Biala Estate, Olodo, Ibadan, together with the three-bedroom flat and uncompleted storey building is jointly owned by the two.

On the second relief that both buildings be sold as requested by Toyin, Justice Abimbola held that, “I will not give such orders in respect of the two buildings. Particularly, Section 17 Married Women Law of Oyo state Cap 83, Laws of Oyo state 2000 gives a court the discretion as it thinks fit on the issues of title of possession to property.

“Section 18 also enjoins the court to treat such property as a joint property if the issue has to do with the maintenance of a matrimonial home. My order to this effect is that the completed three-bedroom flat on the land be retained as the matrimonial property and the four children are entitled as beneficial owners by way of a resulting trust created for them by their parents. The mother, as long as she remains unmarried, is directed to be in possession undisturbed in order to take care of her children.

“The uncompleted storey building is ordered to be sold by both parties and the proceeds divided in equal share. The half share shall go to the wife for the maintenance of the children. A divorced wife has no business being maintained,” Justice Abimbola held.

The court also restrained James from harassing Toyin any further or disturbing the quiet possession of the property by her and the children, holding that, “the rationale is that a husband who marries a wife and builds a house during the pendency of the marriage stands the risk of losing that house if he later divorces the woman who had children for him unless such woman, of her own volition, leaves the matrimonial home. Also, a divorced woman is not entitled to any maintenance allowance but maintenance of the children by way of settlement.”

SIRTee15:
All natural resources anywhere in the country belongs to FG....
Be it carbon or solid minerals....
FG receives all corporate tax which is the bulk of tax paid by companies....
Even VAT goes to FG....
Investment policies are responsibility of ministry of trade n investment ....
Fiscal n monetary policies are sole responsibilities of ministry of finance n cbn respectively....
Yes nigerian governors are useless n lazy....
But the unitary system we operate is hugely responsibility.....
Who will want to work, when free money is always flowing from Abuja.....
Water will always flow the way of least resistance, it's the natural law of convenience.....
Even those who wants to work can easily get frustrated by FG policies....
Look at tinapa, a product of cross river govt. The Nigerian customs killed that project.....
Lagos IPP was made redundant by FG policy on power.....
Go back n read that article with an unbiased mind and u will understand the author's message better....
Unitary system is killing Nigeria.....
And the biggest victim is south west not even south south....
Majority of Yoruba are just too blind, naive or ignorant to see it....
Let's stop pretending all is well.....

GOOD BLESS YOU BROTHERLY

bilulu:
Bros you may not agree with me, China and the likes were not developed tru prayers but good and credible leaders. how can we vote in bad leaders den turn to God to help change us? Bros prayers won't solve because we are the cause of our problems so we should rise up and take back our country by force.... Nigeria is one of the most religious people on earth but what has dat brought us?

Thanks
The message you reacted to was meant to install sense into that guy who cursed Nigeria.

I meant to let him realise that instead to curse, let him cultivate the attitude pf praying for the nation.

I understand your point and agree witth it

bilulu:
nice write-up.... history was wiped out from our schools so that other generations won't know how we were. But do most Yorubas believe that this present Nigeria is scam? are they not carried away like the western armies you pointed out? Nigeria as it is now can never work

pray for the betterment of the nation, those who love it shall prosper.....says the book of the lord

TheFreeOne:
The writeup almost brought tears to my eyes.

Nigeria 'as is' presently is a lost cause. Only fools believes it will get better without restructuring or a split into 'countries'. The injustice in the system is an albatross that'll always be the bane of her real development.

I am an omoluabi and i long for Oodua nation.

Oodua a gbe e p

kotv:
She's never going to win. Nigeria is not emotionally ready for a female president.

wrong proposition

Nigeria is ripe for female president

*I LONG FOR THE DAYS OF WESTERN NIGERIA*
by
Prince Lanre Adegun


Many people, today, (including those in their 50’s!) don’t know this.

I long for the days of Western Nigeria. I long for those days when I lived in peace, knowing that I was well taken care of.

When my then Premier (Chief executive of Western Nigeria) - Obafemi Awolowo didn’t have to wait, every month, for Federal Government allocation, before doing for us what development plans he had.

There was a time in this country when we actually had THREE COUNTRIES effectively within the country. And each country was RUNNING SMOOTHLY on its own. It’s like England, Scotland, and Wales (each of them individual countries in themselves, with their own flag, anthem, etc.) yet making up the country called Great Britain.

At that time, Western Nigeria was a COUNTRY on its own. We had our own WESTERN NIGERIA CONSTITUTION. Just like Eastern Nigeria (another country) had theirs. And Northern Nigeria (yet ANOTHER COUNTRY!) had theirs.

These three countries (just like England, Wales and Scotland) had a jointly-agreed-upon federal government which only took care of matters of COMMON INTEREST – like Defence, for instance, but was NOT a humongous task-master that keeps breathing down the neck of those Regions.

Yes, we called them Regions, but the truth was that they were DIFFERENT COUNTRIES which had decided to come together to operate a FEDERAL SYSTEM. A Federal System in which the REGIONS WERE THE MASTERS OF THEIR OWN DESTINIES.

Western Nigeria had a MINISTER OF EDUCATION (not a Commissioner) Eastern Nigeria had their own MINISTER OF EDUCATION. Northern Nigeria had theirs too.

Similarly there were all other MINISTERS – because these were COUNTRIES on their own. The Federal MINISTER OF EDUCATION was NOT in any way a superior to the Regional Ministers of Education. He simply supervised those educational institutions that were strictly owned by the joint Federal Government belonging to the THREE REGIONS – the THREE COUNTRIES.

*The 3 Regions actually owned the Federal Government, and not the other way round!* Just as the countries of West Africa, today, own ECOWAS.

Western Nigeria had its own FOREIGN EMBASSIES. We chose our own foreign friends. And they didn’t have to be the same countries that Nigeria at the Federal level related with.

There was NO unified salary structure. I remember Western Nigeria paid the highest civil servants’ salaries in the entire Federation! *It was one of the reasons there weren’t many Yorubas, relatively speaking, in the employment of the Federal Government!*

Our Igbo brothers on the other hand flocked to Lagos as their region paid far less than the Federal Government.

Because, what were you looking for in the Federal civil service, when Western Nigeria could pay more. It sounds too good to be true, but it’s not only TRUE, but, also, they don’t want you to know this TRUTH, so that you won’t long for those days, and so that they can keep you and your people in BONDAGE to this present Federal Government that is now alpha and omega.

When every other region (and the colonial masters too) thought it was IMPOSSIBLE to give free education to children, Western Nigeria said we can do it. And WE did it. Boy! Education became FREE in all PRIMARY SCHOOLS in Western Nigeria.

Most of us attended MISSION schools in those days, as there were only very few schools established by government itself.

But the free education given by Western Nigeria was to ALL children in primary schools. Yes, all children *So those mission schools, compulsorily, STOPPED charging fees! The Western Nigeria government (because it had control of its own resources and was NEVER in any way tied to the apron strings of the Federal Government) provided for ALL the schools – regardless of whether they were directly owned by government or not!*
That’s why many people think that my generation attended public schools. The truth is that, if public schools mean schools owned by government, there were VERY FEW SCHOOLS OWNED BY GOVERNMENT.

IN THOSE DAYS, and most of us actually attended schools owned by missions – churches. *But my dear Western Nigeria gave ALL OF US free primary education, whether in Government or Private Mission Schools* !

And they intended taking it higher before the Army truncated that system in 1966.

My dear Western Nigeria established the University of Ife. *Awolowo was not as parochial as those of recent years. He did not take the University to his place at Ikenne, Ogun State.* He could have done it then.

Now, go ask your elders what is meant by University of Ife. They will tell you that it is that University which struck WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION right from its inception!

It’s not for nothing that it’s called “GREAT IFE” From its very inception, it shot to the limelight *Professor Banji Akintoye,* a renowned historian, RESIGNED his position at the University of Ibadan (which had been established by the colonial masters after the pattern of British universities) to go to Ife! Ife was IRRESISTIBLE! Ife became THE STANDARD.

May God bless the soul and memory of *Professor Hezikaih Oluwasanmi* and his cohorts for bringing prestige to the Yoruba Nation

Because Western Nigeria had their Destiny in their own hands, and we pursued it with vigour, until they took away our patrimony from us!

The military struck in 1966, and, with one thing leading to another, they gradually TOOK AWAY THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE REGIONS and gave the powers of those regions to a humongous and behemoth *Unitary Government of Nigeria* that now CONTROLS OUR DESTINY.

They took the University of Ife away from us (commandeered it, military style) and made it a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY Go and ask those who know, they will tell you that that’s the day the UNIVERSITY OF IFE STARTED GOING DOWN.

They now sought to placate us, later, by naming it OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY. Na dat one we wan chop? *It is time now that we behind to act towards taking back our sovereignty!* We need to take back our property. We need to start the fight to get control of our own resources.

We are TIRED of your Nigeria that is suffocating us!

Western Nigeria established the FIRST television station in Africa. Even when the Federal Government did NOT have a television station! Officials of the Federal Government came (they were invited!) to come and watch when we opened the first television station in Africa, in 1959. It was named WESTERN NIGERIA TELEVISION (WNTV) and the first face ever, on television in Africa, was one of our mummies (who was a young girl at the time), *Anike Agbaje-Williams.* Western Nigeria caught the attention of the world They came later, and took away WESTERN NIGERIA TELEVISION from us, and they named it NTA, which now call themselves the first and largest television network in Africa.

The so-called Federal Government controlled by Northerners soldiers took over our patrimony. This was sadly but naively aided by our own *Chief R.A. Ogunlade* , the then Federal Minister of Information

The Unitary Government of Nigeria took over our Liberty Stadium and other icons of our achievements as a proud Yoruba Nation.

It is fact of history though that our brethren YORUBAS in uniform were naive and got carried away by the fake promise of a United Nigeria. Their antelope was sadly in bed with the hyena of the Fulanis. Very sadly indeed to have been akimbo while their Northern colleagues got away with cunning deception.

Now that the fake Federation has turned out to be a Unitary Government of Nigeria, the time is nigh to start the quest to regain the Yoruba Nation.

The time is nigh.

GIVE ME THE OLD WESTERN NIGERIA.

MAY GOD BLESS THE ODUDUWA PEOPLES OF THE WORLD.

Edited for clarity.
Akin Fapohunda.

oyatz:
There is an element of truth in both sides of the story.


My view is that Alh Mutairu Saraki was most likely, an itinerant Yorubanized Fulani (possibly from Mali) whose parents settled in Abeokuta during his childhood but have relatives who settled in Ilorin.
Dr Olusola Saraki who was born in Lagos decided to adopt Ilorin as his hometown.


#There are many people we now call Yorubas whose great grandfather were Fulani, Bariba, Nupe, Bini or even Igbo.

Senator Fatai Buhari (APC, Oyo NORTH) is of Fulani descent. The Hausa slaves in the Old Oyo Empire didn't disappear but we're absolved into the Yoruba Nation

great

Vatsyayana:
Why I don't believe this news is because Oshiomole hates Okonjo with passion.

read the message again, APC chairmain seems not in agreement with the projection

YUNGCONCEPT11:
The person that was granted interview is the father of Governor elect kwara state. ABDURAZAQ ABSULRAHMAN

you got it right

cowardafonja:
I'm a yoruba person but I'll support this whole heartedly if it's true. We need capable people to run the affairs of this country.

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great, a good nigerian

stevnwigw1:
mumu

This your post describes who you are......its a pity!

The ancestral home of Saraki is in SABO, ABEOKUTA.

He can not deny it

It appears the National Executive Committee of the ruling party, All Progressive Congress APC has decided to swing the Presidential pendulum of 2023 to the South East zone of Nigeria.

This gist became transparent in the cacaus meeting of some who's who members of the Party in Abuja last weekend where there was projection for former minister Okonjo Iweala as most sellable product to penetrate the Northern part of the country due to her antecedency in cordial relationship with nothern politicians during Jonathan administration.

Though, there seems to be speculation within the camp projecting the disaggrement of the National Chairman of the party, ADAMS OSHIOMOLE to key into this development...

details later

SARAKI IS NOT FROM KWARA

By Alhaji AbdulGaniyu Abdulrazak

Alhaji AbdulGaniy Folorunsho Abdulrazak, a former Nigerian Ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire, claims to have met the father of Dr. Olusola Saraki in Abidjan in the sixties. In this interview with Bamidele Johnson, he tells the story of his friendship with the older Saraki, whose origin he gives as Abeokuta

Q: What do you know about the background of Dr. Olusola Saraki?
Well, in 1962, I was appointed Ambassador of Nigeria to Cote d’Ivoire and one of those who met me at the port as part of the Nigerian community in
Abidjan turned out to be the father of Olusola Saraki, Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki. As an ambassador there, my second secretary in the embassy, Ignatius Olisemeka, who later became Foreign Affairs Minister, led officials of the embassy to come and meet me. That was around September or
October 1962. In those days, there was only one flight from Lagos to other West African countries. Ships plied the coast of West Africa, carrying some
passengers. One of the ships named General Mangaine travelled on the West African coast, stopping at principal ports. After leaving the Cameroons, it came to Lagos, where I went aboard together with Ado Ibrahim, who is now
the Emir of Kano. Both of us were appointed the same day as ambassadors; he to Senegal, I to Ivory Coast. We went with our respective families,
stopping at several ports along the way until we finally disembarked at Abidjan. So, I observed that the crowd that came to meet me at the port was divided into two and members of each group had flags of different colours,
saying: “Welcome, our ambassador.” One group had white and the other, green. And they were supposed to be a Nigerian community welcoming their ambassador. Then, Olisemeka, my secretary, took me to my official residence. He was more like a permanent secretary to me. He was like a permanent secretary is to a minister. When we got home, he showed me the rooms along with my children and wife. Later, I called Olisemeka and asked why members of the Nigerian community that came to meet me were waving different banners and were standing apart, not mixing. He said I was very perceptive. I asked if they were divided and he said they were. He explained that the division was caused by a fighting over who would lead the Nigerian community. When I asked who the contenders were, he said one was called Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki, while the other was Emmanuel Alabi.

So, I told Olisemeka that one of my first duties would be to see Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki and Emmanuel Alabi. And I said I would see only the two of them and not their supporters at 10a.m. the next day. On getting to the embassy in the morning and settling down in my office, Olisemeka came to tell me that the two gentlemen had arrived. He then brought in Muttahiru Saraki, who sat on my right, Alabi on the left. I thanked them for welcoming me on my arrival and told them that my secretary, also present, told me that the two of them were fighting over the leadership of the community. I said I was not prepared to work with a divided community. I also told them that I had not invited them to the embassy to hear why they were fighting.

I said from their looks, Muttahiru Saraki would be the older person. And
because of that, I said I was recognising him as the leader of the community. And against my expectation, Alabi stood up and prostrated before Saraki, holding his leg and saying: ‘I accept you as my leader.’ And I told him he would be Saraki’s deputy.

Alabi then asked for permission to say something and I asked him to go on. He said nobody ever called the two of them together and it was only their followers who were treating the matter that way. And Alhaji Saraki also said he accepted him as his deputy.

I later thanked them and they went away together. About a week later, Olisemeka came to me saying he wanted to thank me for the resolution of the problem between Muttahiru Saraki and Alabi. He said it was like a miracle and that within a week, he had seen a reduction, to about one per cent, in consular problems like fighting between Nigerians, going to police stations and so on. From then on, throughout my stay there as ambassador, I went to the mosque to say my Friday prayers with Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki. I’d go out of my way to take Alhaji Saraki from his house and we’d drive to the mosque together. After prayers, I also brought him back. Naturally, the relationship between the two of us blossomed. Then one Sunday, my guard, a policemen, came and said there was an old man who wanted to see me and his name was Saraki.

He then brought in Muttahiru Saraki and we started to talk. Then he asked me where I come from. I told him I am from Ilorin. Alhaji Saraki said he was an Egba man from Abeokuta. By this time, I did not even know the existence of Olusola Saraki. So, the man told me he was from Abeokuta, but he went to a Quranic school in Ilorin at Agbaji, an area of reputed for Islamic scholarship. The man, with his own mouth, told me he was an Egba man from Abeokuta. And as of that time, I knew of no existence of any member of his family. This was in early 1963. So, we carried on like that.

The fact that I resolved the problem between him and Alabi helped us a great deal for our consular cases. As the leader of the Nigerian community and being older than me, Saraki, at my request, always sat by my side wherever I went in my my capacity as Nigeria’s representative. At a point, members of the Nigerian community were calling him deputy ambassador and he enjoyed that. Anywhere I went officially, I took him along. When I was going to present my letters of credence to the head of state (Houphouet-Boigny) I took him along, too. Incidentally, President Houphouet-Boigny was a medical doctor and had been Saraki’s doctor before he became President. They knew each other before I came on the scene. After the man entered politics and he became minister and later, president, they saw less of each other. So it was a great reunion for them on that day. Of course, the news quickly spread that the “deputy ambassador” was a friend to the president. We carried on like that and had a good personal relationship.

Did you meet his wife?
He was a polygamist. He had about three then, with some children, some older than Sola Saraki, and some younger. When I got to the house every Friday to take him to the mosque, I saw them. One Sunday, he came again through the policeman at the gate. And after entertainment with drinks, he told me he had come that day to thank me. He said he had never met any human being, not even his own children, who had honoured him as I had done and that he did not even know how to show his appreciation. I said there was no need for all that. That was in 1963. He then said that he had a son who was studying to be a doctor in London and whenever he came home on holidays, he’d like us to meet. One Sunday during the summer holidays, Alhaji Saraki brought Sola to introduce him to me. And after they took their seats, Alhaji Saraki started talking by saying ‘Sir’. I asked him to cut that out because he was as old as my father. He then reminded me about his son he said was in London. I stood up to greet Sola and he stretched out his hand for a handshake. The father got up and slapped his face, saying: That’s my god you want to shake hands with. You should prostrate.

But I said we were both young men, within the same age group. I made light of it, saying we knew how to greet each other. That was how I met Sola Saraki.

Did you relate with him at all?
I will get to that. So, the father now said he was putting him in my care. ‘Take care of him for me,’ he said. Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki, the father of Sola is dead now, and is in the right place. If I am telling lies, he is hearing. That was how I met Sola Saraki. And I told him that it was good that as a young man, he is a professional. I advised him to return home to participate in politics. I am talking of 1963.

I remained in Abidjan till 1964, when my party, the Northern Peoples Congress, through my leader, the Sardauna of Sokoto, sent for me. He said I had to resign because they wanted to appoint me a minister in the cabinet of Tafawa Balewa. So, the Sardauna sent for me and said I was going to be a minister in the next government. He said he would tell Ilorin people that I’d be returned to the parliament unopposed. I was appointed minister in charge of Nigerian Railways and I performed other functions, like being a confidante to the Prime Minister.

Back to Sola Saraki. When I then went back to campaign in 1964, to go to parliament, with a view to be appointed a minister, Sola surfaced. That was two weeks to the election. He told me that he had decided to heed the advice I gave him in Abidjan to go into politics. I asked where he wanted to contest and he said Asa. Asa is a local government that shares a boundary with Ilorin Central. When I replied Sola, I admitted that I advised him to come into politics, but he had come too late. In Asa, there was a member of parliament, Mr. Babatunde, whom the party had decided to return unopposed. However, he said he would contest.

Did you raise the issue that he was an Egba man when he said he was going to contest?

That didn’t arise at that time. It is now that the sort of question is being raised. He said he would contest. He went to Lagos and brought some packets of medicine and he put up a mat and a hut in Asa and started giving people injections. These were for people who lacked medical attention. The whole of Asa local government had no hospital at all. If anybody fell sick, they had to take the person to Ilorin.

He started giving them cheap medicine, thinking that it would win him their votes. He did not take into consideration that one, there was a member of parliament on ground. Second, the same man was being presented by my party. Also, he was going to be an independent candidate. Naturally, he was defeated. That was his entry into Ilorin politics. Then, he started visiting Ilorin, sharing money to people; money that he had made from medical practice through the retainership he had with the Nigerian Ports Authority and Ministry of Defence. At that time, the army did not have a hospital or a medical department. The Air Force also did not have any. So, whatever bills he sent to them, they paid him.

So, he was making constant visits, and building himself up. And that was the situation in Ilorin. If he says he is an Ilorin man, ask him where the home of his father is.

He will point to Agbaji. Agbaji was the place his father schooled. That is
the only connection he has to the place. He knows I know this and he cannot face me and say it is not true. There was one time he wanted to change his identity, claiming he was from Mali. If the father of Bukola is not an Ilorin man, how can Bukola be?

Who is the mother of Bukola? We know she is not from Ilorin. It is even doubtful that she is a Nigerian. The wife that I know with Sola Saraki, that he brought to my house in 1964, when he became a doctor, did not have a job. I was then a minister, living at No 2 Thompson Road, Ikoyi. He brought his wife, saying they had just come together from England. And I got the wife a job through my friend and colleague in the cabinet, who was the Minister for Establishment. That was the first job of Morenike, the mother of Gbemi. And the mother of Gbemi is not the mother of Bukola.

All through this time, were you still in touch with his father whom you left in Cote d’Ivoire or you broke off?

I maintained my friendship with his father. His father was writing me letters. In one of the letters, he told me he was very sick. And at that time, Sola was in private medical practice at Offin in Lagos and I went there to rebuke him. I said he was a useless doctor if his father was suffering in a foreign country. I said he should be his number one patient at his clinic. And he brought him back. It was in that hospital that the man died.

If you were that close, you must have met some of Muttahiru Saraki’s family members. Do you recall running into any of them in Ilorin?

None at all. Even up till now. There was one Iya Alaro. But Iya Alaro was a daughter of Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki, married to an Ilorin person. And that is the root of Sola Saraki coming to Ilorin. When he came to Ilorin, he stayed with Iya Alaro at Agbaji. But Iya Alaro’s relationship with Ilorin was that of a wife of an Ilorin man. I know Alhaji Saraki had a male child in his house in Abidjan. He was older than Sola. He did not have Western education. And I think he must have settled back in Lagos or Abeokuta.

The story is true. BODE THOMAS was taken to IJEBU IGBO for treatment. He was eventually healed by BABA OJUMOKAN in Ijebu Igbo. Few days for him to be discharged, in the morning while reading paper, some assasin arrived and assasinated him on the chair. The incident occurred just the following morning that Obafemi Awolowo just visited him and certified healthy.

As a result, BABA OJUMOKAN in OJOWO Ijebbu Igbo committed suicide before the return of AWOLOWO.

The story is true and living witnesses are still available in Ijebu Igbo for detail confirmation.

The story is true. BODE THOMAS was taken to IJEBU IGBO for treatment. He was eventually healed by BABA OJUMOKAN in Ijebu Igbo. Few days for him to be discharged, in the morning while reading paper, some assasin arrived and assasinated him on the chair. The incident occurred just the following morning that Obafemi Awolowo just visited him and certified healthy.

As a result, BABA OJUMOKAN in OJOWO Ijebbu Igbo committed suicide before the return of AWOLOWO.

The story is true and living witnesses are still available in Ijebu Igbo for detail confirmation.

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