fergie001:

That is OK....

@ least we have established the SW accrued more votes for him than the "gang-up people."

Which party won the SW on vote difference? APC right?

So how can you compare two things that are incomparable bro?

Are the general vote count for SE and SW thesame?

This your analogy is comparing two things that are not relatable statistically wise.

ThumbzTNA:
Instead of power to go to South West, let it remain in the North. Yoruba should know they are not the only region in the South

Who need you guys in the first place?

Balkan:
it was the Yorubas that have been working against the South.
You joined the North to take power away from the South.
You are an irredeemable liar. You joined the north to remove jonathan

The same Yorubas that voted for Jonathan in 2011 even with the fact that we are majorly tilted towards ACN in the gubernatorial elections.

Igbos have always been working against the South, unless if you count the SW out of your said South.

Azikiwe, Ekwueme, Ugoh, including the gang up of 1999 against Olu Falae a clear Yoruba candidate.

You Igbo only know nothing more than blackmail and relying on your connection (Easteen Region) with the tribes of the SS to push the agenda of a supposedly Southern betrayal by the Yorubas.

You should also remind them that we voted that South in 2011 and only show Jonathan the way out when it’s evident he marginalized and told us to do our worst.

Ohaneze should wake up and do the real politicking. How can they get an Igbo man there when their kinsmen that should market their candidates are busy antagonizing Tinubu daily.

When Tinubu caucus eventually win in 2023, the Ohaneze will start another round of wailing.

Agbegbaorogboye:


I'm in agreement with all you've said.

However, it remains to be seen if with the present rent-seeking and financial opacity in Lagos, if your earlier assertion can hold.

Well time will tell.

If such scenario occurs again, I am pretty sure that Lagos can still fend for itself.

About the financial opacity, I’ll leave that to fact to unveil itself coz I really don’t believe too much in hearsays.

However, I understand clearly everything you said and you have a point.

Igbochief001:

Stop this lies obasanjo held only local government allocation and even bayelsa faced same thing

Is there anything called local government autonomy in Nigeria?

Who controls those local government funds? Is it not informally the state government?

Seems you don’t understand your country and you guys are easily carried away with textbook definition.

On survival without allocation, Lagos, Abuja, and Ogun state are the only states in Nigeria with IGR greater than their FAAC monthly allocation.

If you prove further and check the figures of Lagos IGR and their monthly allocation, you will understand what I’m saying when I said they can survive.

Why do every news about Tinubu lead to tears and gnashing of teeth?

What is bad in delivering lectures?

Agbegbaorogboye:


Just a bit of correction. OBJ seized the LG allocation not the state allocation.

Yes, you are right.

However, Governors make use of the LG allocation as part of the allocation for their states informally.

Did we ever have any autonomous LG in this democracy?

Governors informally control that money so seizing a LG allocation will harm the state and there are few states in Nigeria that can survive it.

Kebbiprince:
Not possible at all, no state including lagos can survive without federal allocation

Remove Lagos from the list!

It can survive without federal allocation.

The state did it before during OBJ era and it has more financial capacity currently to do the same.

This statement from Bishop Oyedepo doesn’t make any sense. In fact it’s not different from what MURIC always utter that we condemn him for.

Both MURIC and Bishop Oyedepo are a disgrace and I find it amazing that hypocrites are hailing the divisive statement Oyedepo is saying on this thread.

Nigerian fintech startup Bankly has announced that it has raised $2 million in a seed round.

Bankly digitizes financial services for people in the informal sector, usually small-scale traders who save through rotating savings and credit associations, colloquially known as “ajo” or “esusu” in Nigeria.

The startup founded by Tomilola Adejana and Fredrick Adams went live in July 2019. Last year, Adejana told TechCabal of their plans to scale up in Northern Nigerian.

Bankly is mostly used in cash-based communities. The startup aims to solve some challenges associated with the offline world of group savings.

Trust, security of deposits and proximity of each contributor to the main collector are among such challenges. To tackle these, the startup has developed an agent network over the last 18 months to close the access gap as well as increase confidence among potential users.

But according to Adejana, the CEO, an agent network is only a first step in their “three-phase process” of achieving financial inclusion through digitalisation.

“Just in the same way mobile inclusion happened, you need to then focus on acquiring customers who, after transferring cash to their mobile accounts, use it to buy airtime or make payments,” Adejana told TechCrunch.

The startup reports having 15,000 agents currently and plans to build a customer base to 2 million in three years. That mission will be helped by the investment it has now received from companies also in the fintech space in Nigeria.

Vault is the holding company for VANSO, a fintech company that was acquired by Interswitch. Plug and Play Ventures, Rising Tide Africa and Chrysalis Capital also invested in the round.

Idris Saliu, partner at Vault, told TechCabal that he invested in Bankly’s pre-seed round when the startup first entered the market.”I’ve seen their growth and how hungry they are and it made sense to double down in their new funding round.”

“There are still many unbanked Nigerians looking for access to financial services. This lack of access is still a problem that needs to be solved. Bankly is one of the few companies who are going into these communities and tough places to solve this difficult problem.

“Vault is invested in Bankly because they’re doing a difficult job and I like difficult things.”

Source: https://techcabal.com/2021/03/24/bankly-2-million-seed-round/

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selemempe:
Okupe is just being a typical yoruba man. He won't be the first or last yoruba man without a reasonable manifesto whose sole path to presidency is by spreading Igbo hate.

Awolowo did it when he was advocating genocide against Igbos in order for Gowon to hand over to him.

Abiola did it when he refused to have a Christian as his running mate and instead said publicly that he doesn't need Igbo vote to become president.

Tinubu is doing it when he has recently made disparaging remarks about Igbos and Instigated his touts to kill Igbo voters during the 2019 state elections

God has continued to shame all of them. He would shame okupe too

The Northerners that actually killed Igbos in their thousands on multiple occasions are really not the Igbo man concern. They will always find a way to rope in Yoruba to their misfortune.

I thought Okupe used to be the mouthpiece of your lord Jonathan, so what changed now?

The jargons you wrote up here just reinforced the average Igbo man mind. They blame everybody but themselves.

When determined people are busy politicking, Igbo man will be waiting in the corner trying to act as spoilers. When the man win, they start crying everybody hate them.

Tinubu’s case is a perfect example. While Tinubu was busy politicking his way to 2023, Peter Obi is drinking palm wine while his brethren antagonize Tinubu daily online without marketing their own candidate.

When result trickles in and Tinubu caucus suceed, the Igbo man will start wailing that Tinubu defeated their candidate because of tribalism.

Your progenitors did the same, so I’m not surprised this present generation is dealing with the same problem.

Best of luck!

Tinubu is now living rent free in the head of all these haters.

Tinubu this Tinubu that everyday bi ekun apoko’je.

GboyegaD:


Oga, stop stressing too much. A uniform remains what it is. Something to identify a group of people and modifications are an aberration. If you need an exemption and it is granted, good; however, no one has the right to come redefine the uniform.

That said, I feel you are trying to gaining sympathy with your parents background you shared. That is a family dynamics and it is different from that of an educational facility.

I need no sympathy from anyone. Why I gave the hijab narrative or my sis is just to show you I’m not a religious dogmatic fellow. It’s just a message to you.

If a uniform is a uniform, then why do you support hijabs in regular public schools and oppose it in missionary public schools? Can you see the hypocrisy?

A vast percentage of Christians opposing this have no reason, they are just following the crowd and you my bro is part of them.

I’m not trying to change your view or that of anyone but I’m just trying to say my truth.

GboyegaD:


Learn not to quote out of context as you did with the case of the US. In the US, there are no school uniforms as such, no one is compelled in terms of how to dress.

If you say those against the hijab are doing so for their ego, permit me to reiterate it that those asking for it are doing so for their ego as well.

My position remains respect what the school rules says about the uniform and stop stirring crisis. Interestingly, religion has done us greater harm than good.

Bro don’t fall for the antics of English language.

Uniform has gone from the old ways where everything gotta conform. It has its own definition and I find it rather amusing that some Christian folks are hiding under the “word” uniform as a decoy for why they oppose hijabs.

A girl wearing a school uniform with hijabs on will still be identifiable as the student of that school except if we are just being petty here. You can never maintain uniformity when dealing with issues like this.

What if I have lapalapa on my head, won’t I cover my head to school? So would you rather deny me my right to cover my shame by hiding under the concept of “uniform”. This is just an example.

@the bolded, you can clearly see you have no reason for opposing hijabs, you just doing this to maintain the Christian ego in you in solidarity with them which is fine. However the Muslim girl wearing hijabs is not ego, that’s how she has been since she way young. It has become her identity and without it she is naked.

By the way, my mom is Christian and dad Muslim. My sister used hijab when she was young but later chose not to use it again and we respect her opinion. So don’t think I’m a fanatics of some sort. I’m just disturbed that we Yorubas are dwelling on things we have gone past.

Telling them to remove their hijab to some is like telling a born again Christian sister to wear bra and pant alone to school. Do you know to some it’s the same?

GboyegaD:


That's not a separation as some schools allow hijab and they are non missionary schools. We shouldn't try to create issues and should respect the school's policy.

Creating chaos intentionally as is being depicted by trying to force hijab on schools is the animalistic behavior here.

What is a missionary and no missionary school? Are they teaching theology in those schools or conventional educational syllabus?

They are not forcing hijabs on schools, they are telling the schools to respect the right of a Muslim girl to wear his hijab. It’s just a cloth they put to cover their head, why the hatred?

There are some things that are just and fair. If we fall for the antics of separating them and telling them to go to other schools then I can tell you more church and mosque will build schools and we will drift apart because each group will want to separate one for another.

There will always be fabrics of division. We can only conquer it if we let common sense prevail.

Below is USA, an overwhelming Christian majority country. They not only allow kids to use hijabs in High Schools, even the Christians are joining their colleague to wear hijab to celebrate world hijab day.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-oak-lawn-high-hijab-day-st-0209-20200207-gsb7ikhcwzgx7d63xa2wbcpkgy-story.html%3foutputType=amp

Even most of the people saying those students should go to other school don’t have any reason for opposing hijabs. They just doing it for ego and some inducing forces.

Let me ask you a question:
What would it take from you if a student go to a school with hijab and how does it affect society negatively in Yorubaland?

seunmsg:
School should be a place of learning and not a religious ground. We should keep all public funded schools secular.

Parents who want their children to wear religious insignia to school should send them to schools run by whatever religion they subscribe to. Encouraging students to wear hijab or cassock to government funded schools will only bring crisis and confusion.

Brother I have a contrary opinion.

It’s absurd and unYoruba for us to start treating hijab as cancer to the society. I don’t know where this came out from because it’s not like this in the past.

I have friends including myself that attend Anglican schools and my Muslim female classmate were not denied from using hijabs and I don’t think Christians take offense with it during those time.

I think we got it wrong during the transition between Jonathan/Buhari when political parties pushed the Islamization rhetorics by CAN and the obvious nepotism of Buhari where he favored Muslims in his government.

This somehow shape opinion of regular minded Christians who now think there is a need to defend their religion against Islamization. What they used to ignore before now start disturbing them and the once peaceful environment is now corrupted with rubbish religious antics.

Ask yourself, what will the Christian lose if a girl is on Hijab to a school financed by the state government? Haven’t we been seeing people with hijab around and living with them for ages? Why now?

If we start drilling further about religion, then the Muslim man can also question why we pray to God on the assembly ground instead of Allah. Isn’t that how it has been for ages? Can the Christians allow their kid to pray to Allah daily and sing from what is obvious the Christian song of praise daily?

If you separate Christian from Muslims in secondary schools, will you also separate them in the universities?

GboyegaD:


It is called uniform for a purpose. If the school says no to it, so be it. Kids that want to use the Bijan should attend schools that allow it as part of the uniform.

A solution to all these madness might be stopping the use of uniforms in schools so that everyone is fit to wear what they are comfortable with.

Then that makes us animals if at this age and time we separate kids in school based on religion.

When they get to universities, they will interact with people of other religious creed, so what’s the brain in separating them in secondary schools?

I just hope both players come back to their senses and see that we must not fall for the division of religion coz it’s a cancer on its own.

No need renaming schools.

StoneColdStun:
If you like commission touts and Agberos, what I know is this Fulanis must conquer the whole of South West and all Afonjas must relocate to the refugee Camp in Benin Republic.

Hope that will provide water for the people in Enugu that haven’t drank potable water for months?

I heard they are now queuing up in their thousands for water.

Aare all hands must be on deck.

My advise is to tell your boys to keep their activities low profile. You don’t need to impress anyone online with your arrests or job, just get the job done and let the result speak for you.

I trust in you and now every hand can be on deck whether Amotekun or OPC, the end goal is a safe region.

Fahdiga:
Shut up and set your self free from slavery

The slavery the minority tribes of Ijaw and Igala sold your ancestors over or which one?

Fahdiga:
Tinubu's ATM

At least he is overseeing an investment and state with revenue that’s bigger than the whole SE states combined.

Only God know whose ATM your governors are such that they can’t provide potable water in Enugu while Abia remains a portrait of decay.

But as usual, Igbos don’t care about what happen in their respective enclaves, they see and dream about Tinubu daily.

Standing5:
Everyday seed funds seed funds.

It's a seed bro and will germinate. Those startups will shape Nigeria (new country) destiny in the near future when they start growing.

Flutterwave started small like this and now it is a billion $$ investment.

Ideally, it is expected of every business to reach its customers effectively. However, that’s not the case as limiting factors that hinder proper digital communication come into play at different growth stages. Termii, a Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup that solves this problem for African businesses, announced today that it has closed a $1.4 million seed round.

The round was co-led by African early-stage VC firm Future Africa and Japanese but Africa-focused VC Kepple Africa Ventures. Other investors include Acuity Ventures, Aidi Ventures, Assembly Capital, Kairos Angels, Nama Ventures, RallyCap Ventures, and Remapped Ventures.

Angel investors like Ham Serunjogi, co-founder and CEO of Chipper Cash; Josh Jones, former co-founder and CTO, Dreamhost; and Tayo Oviosu, co-founder and CEO of Paga also participated.

Gbolade Emmanuel and Ayomide Awe launched Termii after Emmanuel’s experience as a digital marketer helped him recognize the need for businesses to have exceptional communication channels. The CEO consulted for these companies and leveraged emails to retain customers, but as he found out that this process was lethargic, he sought other channels as a replacement.

“That got me to start thinking about multichannel messaging. What it meant was that we needed to find how to allow companies to use WhatsApp, voice, SMS effectively,” he said to TechCrunch. “And we had to make the process simple because in the African market, you can’t do complex stuff. You have to be as simple as possible.”

Termii found out that in addition to assisting businesses to retain customers, there was a clear need to verify, authenticate and engage them.

“Many of these businesses we started engaging said they required tools to effectively communicate and verify customers because they were losing money at those points. For us, we saw it was a bigger problem,” Emmanuel added.

After making some tweaks, the team began to see an increase in customers numbers, especially amongst fintech startups. Positioning itself in the fast-moving space, Termii created an API-based communication infrastructure that caters to over 500 fintech startups across the continent. That’s not all. More than 1,000 businesses and developers are also using Termii’s API.

Some of these businesses include uLesson, Yassir, Helium Health, Piggyvest, Bankly, Paga, and TeamApt.

Playing in a $3.6 billion B2C communications market estimated to grow 6% annually, Termii runs a B2B2C model. But how does it make money? While a subscription-based model would’ve made sense, the two years spent by the company trying to find PMF made them think otherwise.

So the company leverages a virtual wallet system tied to a bank account and customers can make payments to the platform using mobile money, bank transfer, and credit cards. The startup charges these wallets on a per-message basis. It also does the same on every successful customer verification made towards customers’ contacts.

In early 2020, Termii started seeing immense progress and this coincided with their acceptance into Y Combinator. The growth continued throughout the year, growing its messaging transactions by 1000% and experiencing a 400% increase in its ARR.

Spilling into this year, Emmanuel says the company’s revenue is growing 60% month-on-month as a result of the surge in online financial transactions which to date makes up for 68% of the company’s total messaging transactions.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/19/nigerias-termii-raises-1-4m-seed-led-by-future-africa-and-kepple-africa-ventures/

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Kharol1234:
God save us maybe na bandits do am

Try to read nao.


It was learnt that the explosive device was left behind by armed robbers who invaded a new generation bank on March 11th 2021 and carted away money.

A resident, Shola, said, “the shop where the incident happened was the spot where the armed robbers highlighted and distributed weapons from themselves before they commence the robbery last week Thursday.

adadike:
Any woman wearing hijab and burqa is a potential terrorist

Exactly. Like the catholic nun below.

The news said Burka, some deranged religious fanatics are equating it to school girls in Nigeria.

Is hijabs same as Burkah? Are girls always covering their faces in Nigeria schools? I thought they only cover their heads.

I also don’t subscribe to burkah because it dosen’t make sense for you to cover up your face like a masquerade such that we won’t be able to know who is who.

But normal hijab is okay and I don’t see any reason why some Christians take offense from Muslim students using that in school. Even USA allow hijabs let alone a country with almost equal Muslim/Christian population like Nigeria.

God bless you Akeredolu.

We need to test this constitution and find legal loophole to make sure our local government can function and set up local government policing system.

Local government should handle their respective securities and the state government should find a way to come in to help and make sure Amotekun structure is modified to this new realities.

Other SW governors should key into this and make it work as soon as possible.

This country must restructure by fire by force or break up. Instead of waiting on the FG for restructuring, state government should test the constitution and create frameworks that can effect some structural changes or less we will wait till eternity if we believe the Hausa/Fulanis will come on the table for this.

DAWN should engage both private and public sector this time around and we shouldn’t leave the burden on our government alone.

All hands must be on deck this time and we shouldn’t be held down by government bureaucracy that slow down processes.

It should mostly be hinged on the private Investors with government providing the right environment, land, and grant if needed to aid the SW food sufficiency agenda.

Time to get to work, leave Aboki to do what he wants with his food and no need for name calling.

We are the Yorubas, we have done it before, and we can do it.

Other Southern people can key into food sufficiency using their respective platforms if they intend.