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Christistruth00:
If you want to be a History Teacher don’t teach Fake News


This is the notorious Decree 34 with which Gen Ironsi abolished the Autonomy of the Regions and Centralised
Government and Power Under himself

https://archive.gazettes.africa/archive/ng/1966/ng-government-gazette-supplement-dated-1966-05-24-no-51-part-a.pdf

Decree #34 by Ironsi destroyed regionalism. It was the decree that transferred all the autonomous power of the four regions then to the centre.

Before the military putsch of January 15, 1966, which ended the First Republic and foisted the first military rule on the country, Nigeria operated as a true federal state. The regions were strong and took full responsibility for determining their destinies.

Each region developed at its pace; each was responsible for generating its own resources, merely paying tax to the centre.

No region waited on the Federal Government for monthly handouts, No-one called on the Federal Government to fix any road, furnish any school or equip any hospital. The regions were responsible for determining their own affairs and by so doing contributed to the strengthening of the centre.

gidgiddy:
Nigeria used to have four Regions, all four Regions controlling their resources. This practice continued until Gowon came in and abolished all 4 Regions in May 1967. Gowon also enacted Decree 15 that ended resource control. However, the sentence that brought Regionalism to an end in Decree 14 reads as follows

THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT therefore hereby decrees as follows-

1. There shall, on the commencement of this Decree, be created out of the Regions, States to be known by the names in column 1

And just like that, the 4 Regions were abolished, 12 States were created, and Regionalism disappeared

gidgiddy:
That means you have never read decree 34, it was nothing but a civil service decree

Blaze14k:
Tinubus ambition is to make Lagos an independent state just like london. This is reason most Yoruba will die for him to become the president. They don't care if the rest of the country crumble.

tiswell:
my village is far better than your cave in ogbomosho

gidgiddy:
If Nigeria can go back to semi-autonomous Region's that are financially independent of government, control their resources and internal security, it will be a good thing

But who is fooling who? The clamour for Regionalism is largely a Southern Nigerian thing, nobody in the North wants it. But beyond that, people have forgotten that it took a civil war to remove Regionalism, and it may require war to bring it back

In 1967 Yakubu Gowon abolished the 4 Region's Nigeria had and created 12 states to replace them. In retaliation, Ojukwu declared Biafra.
It was not until the war ended that the states Gowon created became fully operational.

I have no doubt that those who fought war to remove Regionalism will fight again to see it never comes back.

DMerciful:
Yes...Lagos would revert to status quo of Lagos colony or West west

christistruth01:
The Military FG soldiers ate all the Cows in the 16 Western Region Cattle Ranches Built by Awolowo
Many of the Cattle had been imported from Isreal and Argentina for breeding purposes to produce a high quality Cattle industry for the Western Region

raskymonojendor:
Lagos "colony" was made wealthy by European traders.

Lagos (western region) which is atleast 95% of Lagos was built using the wealth of the western region prior to Ironsi scattering everything plus the creation of states by Gowon.

The Egbas, Ibadan, and Ijebus were also very wealthy due to trade with Europeans as well.

Anyway, Lagos is SW and a Yoruba land.

agadez007:
only Yoruba people were crying

agadez007:
these are your people complaining bitterly,even Allen Onyeoma had to comment on the matter

Hypocrites,nobody needs your pity,we want you to also cry about the hijab too,ohhh it’s what your people use to carry out suicide bombings

agadez007:
but the owner of a business shouldn’t have his own rules on what his hostesses should wear
We all saw how the isiagu hurt you guys,some were even calling on tinubu to ban Air peace
Bloody Hypocrites

agadez007:
so flights going to Christian countries like US,UK should dress their Hostesses as Revd sisters,you Muslims can give but never take
You see how you guys have been exposed,wishing an innocent businessman plane crash because he chose his native wear

Nigeria is never one

budaatum:
I used sharpener but wasn't aware it work so well that it's seen. In fact, I don't think it worked at all and it's your eyes and mind that are very sharp.

Nonny95:
Well, we all know what we are doing in this country!!

goatandyam:
Imagine entering that plane full of hijab wearing suicide bombers.

Na to just cancel that shiiit

budaatum:
To be honest, I'd be more concerned about getting on a plane with you considering how little you reason.

MightySparrow:
You get it my brother. I didn't even know this analysis. From the earliest times by Providence, people like Herbert Macaulay, Henry Karr etc started politics in Lagos. These were returnees from abroad following abolishment of slave trade. Many people have contributed to Lagos. There was a Josiah Doherty from my place in Ekiti. He became one of the most successful businessmen of his time. He was one of the three people that founded the defunct National Bank of Nigeria. People like that developed Lagos. Igbos, ikwerre, Birom, Benis... All sharpened Lagos.. where will these people go after many decades or even centuries of existence?

Where and what are the contributions of the aborigines better than others?

Besides, we are talking of regional integration, suggested and piloted by Tinubu. He tested this when he was choosing Aregbesola from Osun, Dele Alake from Ekiti, Ambode from Ogun, Ben Akabueze from Igbo land etc. We are talking about development here. If Nigerians, Ghanaians, Kenyans are now contributing to the development of host communities, at various political levels, in Europe and America, why will anybody think here in Nigeria that his contribution is being an indigene? Politics is all about influence. These indigenes should come out and put their cards on the table. No one will look for any Indigenes to field in any party. Mind you, politics carries with it a measure of greed and selflessness. It means self expression, and involves neutralizing oppositions when feasible and necessary.

My take is this: let the indigenes wake up and participate actively not to be doing nonsensical ọmọ onílè all around Lagos.

I tell you the truth, if there is going to be referendum today, are they going to call ọmọ onílè alone for it? I don't think so, all of us will participate. What percentage is this aborigines? It is like the Latin Americans in the USA. They should just wake up and be relevant politically.

Konquest:
Ah! The fact that Josiah Doherty was originally of Ekiti descent is very interesting. I never knew that. I do know though that the "Ekiti Parapo" organization was formed on Lagos Island in the late 1800s due to the fallouts of the Kiriji War episode. Lagos Island from the population census already had a significant number of Ekitis and other Yoruba subgroups living and trading there in the 1800s.

It's good to know that Josiah Doherty was from Ekiti because a vast number of the Yoruba returnees of the 1800s from the Americas and Sierra Leone were majorly Oyos, Ijesas (such as the wealthy family of Candido DaRocha who returned from Bahia, Brazil), Egbas folks such as the Alakija's (returned from Bahia in Brazil and the wealthy patriarch was Sir. Adeyemo Alakija, QC, who was also the Daily Times newspaper founder. He was formerly known as Placido Assumpcao but he changed his Brazilian name to his Yoruba ethnic name when he returned from his law studies in England in the 1910s). All these folks either settled on Lagos Island OR in Abeokuta, etc, and became very wealthy international businessmen or professionals who could even afford to send their children to schools and elite Universities in England before 1900! It just blew me away. It was the triumph of human spirit that the savvy Yoruba-Sierra Leonian, Yoruba-Cuban and Yoruba-Brazilian returnees could achieve so much success within a short time frame as wealthy African Merchant princes and professionals in the Victorian era of British colonialism of Nigeria and Africa in general.

I enjoyed reading your input here.

Jogs1900:
Since the days of Zik, they've been looking for avenues to divide the Yorubas ..I don't know the reason for their obsession..SE afise ni?
They tried it during the last general election trying to divide Yorubas but dem lule laslas.

Blaze14k:
Type CARBON central London fool I'm not your regular low life crew

Blaze14k:
Lol "posting pictures" you are such a brat. You even forgot what u said so quick cos the picture too you by surprise and you went ballistic 😂🤣😂😂 not everyone is criminal. You can never stigmatize every igbo person and succeed. Go find people of your low class

Jogs1900:
Imagine.. always twisting issues to suit their narratives.Agenda must agenda na.U no know them.

Blaze14k:
How many times have you mentioned inferior complex ain't you giving up on trying make me feel bad. Can't you see you've failed countless times?

Jogs1900:
They are always like these first generation Nokia phones .. Arguing blindly about what they have no idea about.

Blaze14k:
Lol you can imagine someone talking about inferior complex do you even know the meaning. You think everyone is a low life like you?

Rikkely:
I am not supporting anybody, just being neutral

Blaze14k:
Yeah you are supposed to be Impressed little prick