Nigerian lawmakers receives the most expensive salaries and allowances in the world but to pay the minimum wage of #30000 is a problem.

Very selfish individuals!

Never4getU:
Falsehood won't take u long! The agreement was on a peaceful secession out Nigeria since gowon was a junior officer to ojukwu in the military which was against the military tradition hence the need to pull out of Nigeria.

No, you are wrong. Endeavor to read more on the Aburi agreement, thanks.

gidgiddy:


Thats why they never want history taught in Schools, people would find out that Gowon caused the war by going back on the Aburi agreement

You are right. History was taught in government schools(at least in the western region) in the 60s, suddenly it was scrapped. The truth is that most people we call heroes in Nigeria are monster who has done a lot of bad stuffs reason why they won't want history back to our schools.

Ojukwu and Gowon agreed on restructuring Nigeria at Aburi, Ghana but Gowon came back and denied the agreement.
Millions of lives were lost because of that single denial from Gowon.
Today Nigerians are clamouring for the same restructuring they rejected 53 years ago.


- Twitter

We know that the FG is the biggest enabler of terrorists,yes we meaningful and intelligent individuals know and when the time comes to take action against the atrocities of the North and the FG, we will strike like a pirate whose mission is to kill and steal but for now we will keep on observing.

Sunday Igboho, A Man That Grabbed The Bull By The Horn


If just one man can grabbed the bull by the horns, chased a whole Seriki out of town, get the presidency sweating and the whole Yoruba nation re-energized with new hope, imagine what 100, 1,000 more can do.

This was how our fathers started from Maye and Lakanle, first warlords at Ibadan who set the pace for future legends like Oluyole, Ogunmola, Elepo, Ogboriefon, Latosisa and hundreds of lesser warlords who sent shockwaves into the heart of the enemy camp ( same enemies we are still fighting till today).

While others find every excuse to look the other way, He stood for the welfare of his people and what law in the land exactly will find him guilty for standing up against barbarism, kidnapping, rape and brutal killing of his people by the Fulanis killers in the same country that rewards Boko Haram for killing law enforcement agents and raiding schools to kidnap students and pays herdsmen billions to beg them not to be criminals.

Cowards die many times before their death but a valiant man dies once ( Shakespeare)



- YorubaNation


Meanwhile here is a rare picture of A Fulani herdsman in Ogun state when he hears his neighbor saying Sunday Igboho is around

Igboho, Awon Alaale a dabo bo e, Ase.

In a lawless country like Nigeria, both criminals & the govt are lawless. The govt looks the other way when criminals offend & quotes the constitution when upright citizens defend themselves or take vengeance on criminals.
Self defence is a natural law; no government can stop it.

Question: What kind of president would invite foreign invaders into his country to kill his own citizens?

Answer: President Buhari democrazy has turned crazy & mad in Nigeria. The govt is complicit & will not protect the people.Who will save Nigerians from Nigerian government?


Where’s Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo?

Where’s vice-president Yemi Osinbajo while Fulani killer herdsmen are defiling Yorubaland, the land of his ancestors?
Yemi, where are you? Yoruba blood is flowing on Yoruba soil.
Haven’t you heard of the atrocities being committed by Buhari’s kinsfolk?

What is happening in southern Nigeria today shows why the country must be broken up. Nothing can bridge the gulf between the south & the north.
That’s why regional govt was agreed at Independence. Forget politics, politicians, Buhari & the Obas.

Break the shit hole country now.

Out of three hundred ethnic groups in Nigeria, only the Fulanis are rampaging all over the country, behaving in the most despicable way, killing people like primitive savages. They should all hide their heads in shame.

Yorubas are not invading northern states and killing northerners in their land.
Neither are the Igbos wrecking the havoc in the north. But Fulani herdsmen killers with no respect for human life are invading the south on a killing spree with the full support of Nigerian government

By now IGP Adamu should’ve arrested Seriki Saliu & his killer children for the atrocities they committed including the killings of farmers in Ibarapa & the extortion of millions of Naira in ransom payments. Let’s see if the Fulani government will convict Fulani felons in Yorubaland.

THE KILLINGS, RAPING AND KIDNAPPING MUST STOP NOW!!!



- Oodua Action Movement

Aisha should learn to keep shut. You don't have to share your opinion on every damn issue. At times SILENCE is GOLDEN.

You said it all Mr. Reno.

Nigeria is dead
Long live Oduduwa Republic

Long live Biafra Republic

TAO11:
Good write-up! In any case, I’d like to correct some ‘mistakes’ in this write up:

(1) The word “Yoruba” did not originate in Ahmad Baba’s “Mi’raj al-Su’ud”, or in any of his essays.

To originate a word is to coin such word.

The Timbuktu writer, Ahmad Baba (in that essay) simply made reference to different groups of people using their well-known pre-existing names.

The embedded screenshot right below shows a scan of the manuscript folio in question from his original Arabic essay written in the early 1600s.

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The embedded screenshot which follows below shows a translation of the relevant section of the above Arabic original.

This translation below was prepared by John Hunwick and Fatima Harrak for The Institute of African Studies Rabat, Morocco in the year 2000.

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Clearly, the text shows from its phrasing [viz. “... the group called ... Yoruba ...”] that this is a well-known pre-existing name.

Ahmad Baba didn’t name us, neither did he name any of the ten groups in that listing.
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(2) Yes Ahmad Baba wrote “Mi’raj al-Su’ud”, but not in the year 1627 (in case that was assumed).

Rather, this specific essay was written in the year 1615 in response to some inquiries on enslaving black people.

The Arabic text of “Mi’raj al Su’ud” contains the precise year [and month] of its writing (in the Islamic/Hijri calendar obviously) as highlighted in the embedded folio below.

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The highlight in this folio (which is simply the “verso” of the earlier attached folio) basically shows the wording (in translation): “[The year] one thousand and twenty four [of the Hijrah]”.

When converted from this Hijri “AH” calendar into the Gregorian “CE” calendar; the year 1024AH falls into the year 1615CE.

The well-known formula “G = 0.9692*H + 622” proves sufficiently useful for this conversion.

In the light of my above expositions from Ahmad Baba’s essay of the year 1615, the anachronism and contradiction of the Sultan Bello Coinage myth thus becomes very obvious.

For emphasis, the year 1615 (Ahmad Baba) comes before the year 1837 (Sultan Bello). Lol.

And the word “Yoruba” (as the group name for Yoruba-speaking peoples) has been in existence prior to Baba himself as has been observed in that essay.

What then is the word “Yarriba”, or “Yarba”, etc., and what is its connection with Sultan Bello??

Captain Hugh Clapperton who was an acquaintance of Sultan Bello of Sokoto informs us in his 1829 publication on this.

He noted that “Yarriba” is simply the Arab’s and the Hausa’s articulation of the evidently pre-existing name “Yoruba”. To quote Clapperton’s precise words, he writes:

“Having seen the whole of the baggage off, we started in the evening, and proceeded on our journey. We learned in fact that we were not now in the king of Badagry's territory, but in a district of Eyeo [Ọ̀yọ́], which is called Yarriba by the Arabs and people of Houssa, and that the name of the capital is called Katunga, and that it is thirty days' journey.”

~ Captain Hugh Clapperton; “Journal of a Second Expedition Into the Interior of Africa”; p. 4.


Furthermore, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther also writing in the 1800s makes a note to this same foregoing effect when he writes as follows:

“European Travellers obtained the name Katanga from Hausa People. Yarriba, or Yaruba, is likewise the Hausa pronunciation: Yoruba would be more correct”.

~ Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther; “A Brief History of The Yoruba People”; pp. 1-2.
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In summary, the name “Yoruba” did not originate in the writings of Ahmad Baba in the 1600s. Neither, obviously, did it originate in the writings of Arabs and Hausa-Fulanis in the 1800s.

As has been seen in Ahmad Baba’s essay from the year 1615, the name “Yoruba” (in reference to the Yoruba-speaking group) predates the 1600s.

It is evidently our endonym from a long time ago. Don’t be fooled by modern day propaganda, people.


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Thanks for this piece, i learnt something from this.

Islam came to Oyo Empire in 14th century during the reign of Mansa Musa in Mali and subsequently conversion to Islam by some Yorubas. It was popularly called “Esin Imale” – religion brought by the Malian people...

However, some people erroneously translated “Esin Imale” as “hardened religion to practise”.

According to Akinjogbin (1971), Islam had come to the ancient Yoruba Kingdom of Oyo by the 14th century through trans-Saharan trade. The origin of the word ‘Yoruba’ has been traced to Arabic writers such as Ahmad Baba (1627 in his mi’raj al-su’ud)

And Muhammed Bello (1837 in his infaq al-maysur) both of whom were reported among the earliest to name the people in Oyo ‘Yoruba’, ‘yaruba’, ‘yarba’ at a time when they are still referring to themselves by their diverse ethnic identities (Ogunbiyi, 2003).

Yoruba people were earlier, before the advent of Islam, called “karo o ji re” while a lot of people were recognized by dialectal affiliation e.g Egba, Ijesa, Ife people etc.

The first mosque was built in Oyo-Ile in 1550. Islam was established in Iwo in 1655, spread to Iseyin in 1760, Saki in 1790, Osogbo in 1889 while Ibadan, Abeokuta, Ijebu-Ode, Ikirun and Ede knew about Islam before Fulani Jihad (Gbadamosi, 1978).

Islam came to Lagos in 18th century while the first mosque was built in 1774.

In Yoruba cultural analysis of Ifa divinity, every new born baby was taken to Ifa for future consultation popularly called “Ikosejaye”.

A new dimension to Ifa prediction was a strange corpus of Ifa called “Odu Imale” which was exclusively preserved for a new born baby that will later accepted and practised Islam (see Gbadamosi, 1978).

For instance, Oba Aliyu Oyewole (1795-1820), the seventh Akinrun of Ikirun was reported during “Ikosejaye” that he will practised Islam despite the fact that he was born into traditional belief.

Yet, the prediction came to pass and Islam became a well-known religion in Ikirun during his tenure so much so that he introduced Shariah Court in Ikirun just like Shariah was also practised in Ijebu-ode, Iwo, Iseyin among other places before colonial master cum missionary came in 1842 and abolished the Islamic judicial system.

The case of Ibadan during the reign of Iba Oluyole is also worth mentioning when Ifa predicted the coming of Muslim clerics and the warning that they should be honoured and accommodated.

It came to pass and the Ibadan Generalissimo, Aare Latoosa, during this time has problem of having a male child among his numerous wives.

Yet, Ifa directed him to seek divine intervention in the hands of Muslim clerics which he sought and his prayer was answered (Gbadamosi, 1978). He, therefore, became the first Muslim Oba in Ibadan. He compensated the clerics by building a Central Mosque beside his palace.

It is the replica of this “divine” assistance that led to the building of Central Mosques beside palaces in Yorubaland even within the premise of Ake palace in Egbaland.
Islam revolutionized Yoruba socio-cultural evolution so much so that...

Yoruba were taught how to read and write by the Malian Muslim traders in Arabic language. Yoruba history, for the first time, was documented in Arabic language while child-naming conventions were borrowed from Islamic tradition.

The modes of dressing in cultural Yoruba were largely inherited from Muslims traders. Islamic tradition standardized the excessive polygamous marriage in Yoruba and curtailed the culture of mal-treating women as mere slaves and appendages.

Societal culture, like “Ojude-Oba” among others in Ijebu-Ode, were established after the legendary warrior, Balogun Kuku accepted Islam and became Muhammed Bello Kuku.


- YorubaNation

Racoon:
[i][/i] This is another truth they have been denying especially their zombies here.A man of integrity indeed.

Who said this? Oyegun?

aribisala0:


The question was not about you or your background read it again and comprehend


Do you know me?
Do you know my age

When you went to school in the 50s did you go to schools to ask them if they offer history/

You have no evidence to make any compartative claims between the 60s and now

That you believe something does not make it true.

Evidence my friend

Evidence not assertions

Deep down in your mind, you know what I said is the fact but it either you just love arguing for the fun of it or you just don't want to accept the fact that you are wrong, I think it is the latter. The fact is glaring but for the sake of peace let agree to disagree.

aribisala0:

Did you go around schools in the 60s and 70s to ask schools if they offer history?

Lol you don't know me, don't know my age and my background so there is no need answering that.

aribisala0:


What evidence do ypu have for the claim that History is not being studied in our government schools like it was in the 60s and 70s?? That is your opinion based on NOTHING you can show
How exactly was it studied in the 60s and 70s ?

I can get up and say people don't eat suya like they did in the 60s and 70s . Where is the evidence??

You don't need to tell me to bring evidence, it is glaring even to the blind man that our government schools don't offer history studies like they do in the 60s/70s either you accept it or not, the fact will always remain the fact.

Tomorrow morning, go around to various government schools in your area and ask them if they are offering history studies then you will get the evidence you want.

Manab:
madman try to have a sense.

Get off me you this Fulani

aribisala0:
With respect sir your question is daft
How many schools have toilets or fans>

History was never compulsory in the 60s or 70s that is a lie

History was always an alternative to Government . You could not do both. You had to choose one

Yes, you had to choose between government or history, I am not disputing that. That brings us back to the fact that history studies was been studied well in the 60s and 70s so why are you arguing with me? History studies is not been studied in our government schools like it was in the 60s and 70s, that's the fact, stop this unnecessary arguments.

The foundation of Nigeria unity was built on lies and gun power and have been sustained by lies and gun power, while Northern Fulani have been behind the trigger...

The more we realize the truth the more divided we become. It's now obvious that One Nigeria can only be sustained if Yoruba Elites agree to remain a slave to the North. Enough is Enough!!!

Some naive Yorubas are claiming there's difference between peaceful & non peaceful Fulani, forgetting that's the mistake Middle-Belt made that landed them in IDP camp on their ancestral lands.

The so called peaceful Fulani help and assist their violent kins, examples of peaceful Fulanis are El Rufai, the body bag governor, Zulum, the story teller, the so called Emir of Ilorin helping killer Seriki in Ibarapa sultan of Sokoto who uses the name of God to justify evil, Dangote uses indigenous wealth to enrich himself, Atiku silent in the face of genocide, the so called Imam that allows the non peaceful Fulani to keep their weapons in the mosque, the Seriki that launders the kidnappers loot, the Fulani that litters Lagos international Airport or Yoruba ports begging for bribes, the list is endless.

All Fulani is Fulani and the agenda is the same.

The Yoruba will not be ending up in Internal Displacement Camps with peaceful and non peaceful Fulani taking over our lands and renaming it.

Yoruba will pass on her land to generations unborn as the ancestors did for us.

Yoruba Kings and Baales should stop allocating lands to Fulanis at the detriment of the Omoluabis because of cow meat and occasional cash gift.

- YorubaNation

aribisala0:


It is about being in WAEC and JAMB. If no one is talking the exams they won't be offered
e.g Latin was stopped because interest faded
People still do history in JAMB ........ a lot
You are making a claim do you have data to back it up?
How can you say all schools in the 60s and 70s did X or Y.

No one knows what ALL schools did

I did history and I read books we had teachers but their role is negligible .

I still remember a book called Onwubiko which was the standard text
You do not need to be taught history

You still haven't answered my question, how many government schools are offering history studies. Ask people who studied in the 60s and 70s especially in the South West, they will tell you history studies was like a compulsory subject then.

The foundation of Nigeria unity was built on lies and gun power and have been sustained by lies and gun power, while Northern Fulani have been behind the trigger...

The more we realize the truth the more divided we become. It's now obvious that One Nigeria can only be sustained if Yoruba Elites agree to remain a slave to the North. Enough is enough!!!

Some naive Yorubas are claiming there's difference between peaceful & non peaceful Fulani, forgetting that's the mistake Middle-Belt made that landed them in IDP camp on their ancestral lands.

The so called peaceful Fulani help and assist their violent kins, examples of peaceful Fulanis are El Rufai, the body bag governor, Zulum, the story teller, the so called Emir of Ilorin helping killer Seriki in Ibarapa. Sultan of Sokoto who uses the name of God to justify evil, Dangote uses indigenous wealth to enrich himself, Atiku silent in the face of genocide, the so called Imam that allows the non peaceful Fulani to keep their weapons in the mosque, the Seriki that launders the kidnappers loot, the Fulani that litters Lagos international Airport or Yoruba ports begging for bribes, the list is endless.

All Fulani is Fulani and the agenda is the same.

The Yoruba will not be ending up in Internal Displacement Camps with peaceful and non peaceful Fulani taking over our lands and renaming it.

Yoruba will pass on her land to generations unborn as the ancestors did for us.

Yoruba Kings and Baales should stop allocating lands to Fulanis because of cow meat and occasional cash gift.

A word is enough for the wise.

- YorubaNation

Hmm

helinues:


What is happening in SE than further killing of innocent people?

Why do some people still living in a stone age?

I don't subscribe to people having guns especially with our poor database but this time around, I have a made a U-turn, let everybody own a gun and defend himself and his family since the government has failed in doing such.

Own a gun, defend yourself, your family and your land

Odabo!

decatalyst:


The letter is just so personalized, so endearing and warm.

Where did we get it all wrong?

Greediness of our non visionary leaders led us here.

capitalzero:


No government can do right thing. They can only do bad things or do nothing . Did GEJ dis bad things?

I would have replied you but the bolded has said it all about you.
Peace!

aribisala0:

Not the same as in there is no history in JAMB or WAEC

Read my previous post na. I said all government schools in the 60s and 70s were taught history studies. The question is how many government schools are teaching history now? It is not about history been in Waec or Jamb.