₦airaland Forum

greggng:
That is why he called God. He created himself. I hope this answers ur question. Don't get into metaphysical world so that u don't regret ur existence on earth

He created himself? Wow! Ain't that ingenious!?

OP, it is not Billboard Magazine that releases the Official UK Single's Chart, it is the Official Charts Company. So D'Banj's Oliver Twist did not make the Billboard single's chart. Get your facts right!

John Legend - All of Me (Julia Westlin Acapella)

opeaceo:
Including atheism

Yes na. It if cannot stand proper scrutiny, it should be ridiculed.

That would've been a fine goal from Ronaldo. But then he misses it. #Penalty

Funny how some think that performing different biological and/or social role/functions, depending on the circumstance, must surely engender and sustain gender inequality. I'm scared of people who reason like that.

Suffered a similar fate this afternoon in the hands of one Bala Danjuma, a police officer, between Okene and Lokoja en route to Zaria. I had to part with N1000 after he had poked my right eye and threatened to break my leg after I confronted him as to why I will be travelling around with the receipt of a laptop I've been using since 2012. I have already obtained the phone number of the police commissioner in Kogi State. I will report the said policeman to everyone who cares to listen.

Wiseandtrue:
What do you really consider as heroic?
Be honest if it were to be the other way round what do you think will happen
Even OBJ tasted it for 8 year you know what happened.
Already before the presidential election many fled from their homes but GEJ made it possible for them to come back.
It was a big sacrifice a selfless person can make.
He gave INEC free hand without meddling be honest how many of our past leaders have done that?
You heard the OP that he met the criteria.
Friend either anyone + the opposition like it or not for this singular act GEJ will be remembered all over the world.
You have to give him that

According to you, citing the OP, he met the criteria. When did the OP become part of the awarding committee? He lost an election and vacated office on that count and you call that a "big sacrifice"!? Huh? Is the political seat his father's or his grandmother's?

You also appear to have forgotten that he had the election postponed and gave a flimsy excuse for that? Or is it Orubebe that has escaped your mind? Or the fiasco that was in Rivers? Or the looting of public funds to buy votes?

Wiseandtrue:
Hahaha but it got your attention even though you are a ghost which means it matters.

To me, maybe, because I'm puzzled as to why you think leaving a post after the occupant had been voted out in a democracy is something heroic. To the organisers, it doesn't, otherwise you'd be here celebrating the fellow in question, not 'respecting' him.

Wiseandtrue:
Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim chaired and you expect GEJ to win?
When Mandela was the president there were people who were corrupt under him.
Twice GEJ has brought peace and avoided blood shed
1. During Obasanjo era he helped with the militants
2. Conceding to defeat which is rear amongst African presidents in his generation.
GEJ is not perfect but he will always have my respect for looking beyond his ambition in other to save many lives.
I think he deserve that award.
Please note that I am not from the same region as the immediate past president.
God bless Nigeria

Thankfully, your "respect" doesn't matter in this case.

Ferdyboss:
Good to know. I haven't seen you on the chat room in a while

Been ghosting around. How's your world?

Ferdyboss:
Hi Ghost01. Been a while

Hey, boss. Been around, observing.

Kelsea Ballerini - Peter Pan.

To those trying to make this another Igbo vs Yoruba thread, what obtained in Yorubaland around the time the picture was taken wasn't any different. I remember that not long ago my grandpa was talking about the exposed upper half of early-adult girls and their dark n!pples in those days. Asking a girl to cover up herself from the nape of her neck to her ankles, in the name of decency, was actually alien to us back then. The story is different today though. We lost the narrative, we lost power.

The way this people talk about Nigeria sometimes ehn, you'd think the country is different from this same one. That was the same way Helon Habila said he has to move with security, right from the airport, whenever he is in Nigeria. They just exaggerate everything...

9jacrip:
I'm just seeing this.

The writer, from the snapshot, did a good job but the emboldened holds no water.

Why?

The elders of Ife were all heads of their several sections but with a rotational confederacy and prior to Oduduwa, there had been about 90 individuals who filled the position.

If there had been about 90 something confederacy heads then it makes Oduduwa a 'prophetic' figure which is in no way historical but rather mythical.

The disagreement was largely over those who should live on hills and those who should live in the fertile valleys. Oduduwa and his clan wanted to move down from the hill to be a part of the confederacy and was opposed by others, especially Orelu Ore who poisoned a member of Oduduwa's family. (Orelu Ore started the beef).

Hill(s) settlers wanted to live and own fertile parts of the valleys but their rejection meant they had to start war.

Obatala being high from Palm Wine for most of the period made for a a horrible leader in the time of war and the dislike people like Obameri,Lokore, Baba Sigidi, Gbonkaa had for him got them switching sides.

The war was hot, there was a lot of destruction, it was in the thick of the war Obatala realized his love for alcohol/intoxication did him more harm than good and tried to quit to focus on the war but it was too late. The larger part of Ife had already grown to see Oduduwa as a better warrior/leader.

Obameri did a good job to frustrate Obatala, he forced him to Ideta Oko where the latter's brother (Osangangan Obamakin) was king (of Ugbo - Ilaje/Mahin) who then stepped down for his big brother, hence, Obatala became king in Ideta Iranje Oko - a base from where several attacks were launched but effected little to no changes. (Oba takun takun l'ode Iranje).

During our procession, we tow the same path our fathers took during the exile; from the family compound we walk through Ita Olopo Street, face the Ayegbaju church then walk through Oja Ife then come out through Moore then head for Mokuro. I think Obameri & Lokore both have/had homes in that neighbourhood considering the songs we sing when we trudge past the Ayegbaju church area depicts 'beef' song.

Oh, I should add that the Obameri guy had palm wine in a gourd while walking us out of Ife to Igbo Ogbe. When we stepped into the Mokuro axis, he drew a line/boundary by pouring palmwine on the floor drawing a line with it (an insult & a reminder of Baba's fall).

His descendants do this to us during every Itapa festival but upon our return into Ife, they pour water on the flour to wash it off for us to walk on.

I'll add a snapshot below:

Thanks for the elucidation, sir. Comprehensive as usual.

With comments like these coming from members of the Northern public, little wonder why extremism thrives here. This ain't no nation!

Some of these are tribes, not ethnic groups. Bunu, Ijumu and Yagba, for example, are Yoruba tribes. If you are listing tribes in Nigeria, you might as well include Ijebu, Ekiti, Oyo, Akoko, and the likes in your list.

OP, how come Kano did not make this list of yours?

shakol91:
I will continue to say it as an Ekiti Man, the 2nd term of Fayose is the worst thing to have happened in Ekiti state... A government that claimed to have no money to pay civil servants but has money to start jamboree projects like dualizing Ikole,Ise-Emure, township roads. (He demolished the king's market and didn't provide alternative for the sellers and yet,no plan to build another one) This governor has generated more revenue than any other government (from ridiculous multiple taxation) but still claimed to have no money to pay workers A governor that couldn't pay a month salary from 3 months statutory allocation... My people Fayose is 19.

He did not dualise Ikole township road o. He only renovated a chunk of the road and demarcated it. Shikena!

Pavore9:
NOTE: Preference will be given to qualified candidates from the following States: Bayelsa, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Niger, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara and FCT........For a school in the South west?

It's a federal institution.

Lmao. Fayose pioneered it and now Dino has performed it better with an agbada. Awon werey alaso.

Pidggin:
If GEJ had approved Asari's license to build a University in Nigeria, today Buhari would have had him arrested for corruption, just like they are investigating Tompolo. Mr. Dokubo must have looked into a crystal ball lol.

Seriously what would you all think if GEJ had approved a license for Asari's University in Nigeria?

Now this Mallam, where did he get 4.2 billion to donate as a gift from? Is it not from oil blocs? ND has been milked dry by those who do not want other tribes to taste power.

How come the license for Edwin Clark's university has not been revoked by the incumbent administration and the old man is out walking free? Don't celebrate what is not, biko.

Well, he won't be the first to contest for political office from the comfort of a prison cell. His kinsman, Omisore, did that successfully.

macof:
there's a man I will support for President

Not surprised.

scholes0:
Nigeria GDP crash to 25 year low?
What kind of misleading headline is that?

I wonder o. The OP probably meant to say "GDP growth". I doubt if these people bother to read the full gist before commenting these days - one of the negative effects of the race for FTC.

GWMI:
If good economy policies were there, we will not need eggs from Govt to train our children that is the truth.Besides with the spiritual nature of Nigerians who will allow his child to be feed with cook egg in school?The children might be poisioned you know?so let there be good economy policies and forget about your free egg campaign.Thanks.

Feeding pupils in schools does not hinder having sound economic policies. States like Ekiti and Osun have been feeding pupils in schools for years now, though not on a daily basis due to financial constraints, and we are yet to hear anything such as poisoning. Let's appreciate a good idea when we see one.

Wailers will always wail. There ain't nothing one can do about that. Two of the missing 217 girls were discovered in two days and they are already on the social media wailing "scam". That was the same thing they wailed when the Boko Haram menace started and before we knew it, 20000 souls perished. When a people cannot draw the line between politics and reality, then there is an inferno on the mountain. May The Seven save us!

Very poor.

These guys will come out everytime shouting "corruption, corruption, corruption" as if those who prepare the vouchers and sign the cheques are alien to them. They should check themselves first.

TheSpecial0ne:
Mtcheew...The protest no get weight.

At all. Dem no even reach 50. Lolz.

Where were they when fuel was being sold at N250 per litre?