₦airaland Forum

Mantilla:
Are you proud of your current condition?

Yes, I am, and am still working on myself to get better.

When Buhari brought back Nnamdi Kanu, a lot of people abused Buhari and I don't think Uzodinma came out to support Buhari action.

IamAtikulate:
Here is Nigeria Bureau of Statistics latest poverty data for each zone.

South East: 49.5%

South West: 50.1%

South South: 75.6%

North East: 78.8%

North West: 92.8%

North Central: 96.2%

Percentage of poor people in Nigeria: 73.8%

Only South East and South West see below the national average.

Share your thoughts nicely

The figures for the North Central, North West and North East, has shown the article is not valid

I disagree with him. the 2023 presidential election is the best in the history of Nigeria. Even the losers have not being arguing the fact that the process is free and fair

olisaEze:
Mixed multitudes will always trail a success story. Some because they’re convinced in their hearts, some because they’re just follow-follow. While others just want to get close enough to stab you in the back!

Obi dubious followers on Twitter could only help him win on Twitter.

olisaEze:
Just amen his prayer and let there be peace. No need for all these long turenchi!

A person that score 97/100 in an exam is not a failure.

olisaEze:
Don’t shift the goalpost, just say amen and scroll on. Abi you’re not so sure of your initial free & fair again??

You too say amen to my own prayer too, or you're not sure obi didn't rig in the south east?

Islam in Yorubaland hasn’t quite evolved from the accommodationist character it previously shared with Islam in pre-jihad Hausaland.


David Adedeji Adeleke, popularly known as Davido [Photo Credit: Instagram]
Music star Davido’s social media promotion of a new song by Logos Olori (whose real name is Olalekan Emeka Taiwo) titled “Jaye Lo” where men dressed in stereotypical Muslims robesgyrated into a sudden burst of frenzied dancing shortly after performing the Muslim prayers near a mosque has incensedMuslims in Hausaphone northern Nigeria but doesn’t seem to bother Yoruba and other Nigerian Muslims.

The differential reactions to the music video—and to most other issues involving religion— among Nigerian Muslims can be traced to the history and character of the evolution of Islam in the North and in the Southwest.

It is not often known that Yoruba and Hausa Muslims share a common, age-old heritage even though the manifestation of Islam in the lived experiences of the people is fundamentally different, which is magnified by the often acrimonious political differences between the two groups in contemporary Nigeria.

The emergence of Islam in both societies is not only fairly co-extensive, it is also from the same West African source. Islam came to Katsina, Kano (and in much of Hausaland in Nigeria’s northwest) in a sustained, systematic form in the 1300s. It came to Kano when Yaji I was king of Kano— and to Yorubaland in the 1450s during the reign of Oluaso, the defunct Oyo Empire’s longest reigning monarch on record.

Tarikh arbab hadha al-balad al-musamma Kano, the Arabic-language palace diary known to us in English as the Kano Chronicle, which recorded biographical profiles of Kano’s kings from the 10th century until the Usman Dan Fodio Jihad in the early 1800s, is the first known written account to state that Islam was brought to Kano by the Wangara people of Mali during the reign of Yaji I who ruled from 1349 to 1385.

Islam also came to Yorubaland (and surrounding areas such as Borgu and Nupeland) through the same Wangara people of Mali, which explains why Islam is called “Esin imale” in the Yoruba language, which literally means “religion of Mali.” Note that the Wangara are also known by such names as Mande, Mandinka, Malinke, Mandingo, Dyula, Bambara, Soninke, etc.

Although Islam has existed in Yorubaland since at least the 1400s, the first mosque wasn’t built in Oyo-Ile, the ancient capital of the Oyo Empire, until 1550, and in Iwo, a historic Yoruba Muslim town, until the 1600s. While Islam took enough roots in Yorubaland that Sharia courts were established in some towns, traditional modes of Yoruba worship coexisted with Islam for centuries.

Former Bauchi State governor Isa Yuguda pointed out on April 26, 2013, that “the first Sharia court [in what is now Nigeria] was established in Iwo, in Osun State.”

Many Yoruba Muslims repeat this claim both to show that Islam in Yorubaland has a historical edge over Islam in the North and to persuade the Nigerian government to allow the implementation of Sharia for Yoruba Muslims who desire it.

But the claim is probably an exaggeration. Sharia courts seem to have existed in Hausaland before they appeared in Iwo, but their appearance in Yorubaland obviously did precede colonialism by at least 100 years.

Other Yoruba towns that had sharia courts decades before colonialism are Epe, Ikirun, and Ede(incidentally Davido’s hometown), which are all located in what is now Osun State. (Davido’s grandfather, Alhaji Raji Adeleke, was a respected Muslim leader in Ede who had the title of Baba Adini of Ede, that is, the Chief Protector of Islam in Ede town).

So, Islam in Yorubaland and Islam in Nigeria’s extreme north share similar Malian-inflected historical trajectories, and neitheris a direct consequence of the other, although there are interesting historical overlaps between them. For instance, several Hausa (and pre-Dan Fodio Jihad Fulani) Muslim scholars traveled to Yorubaland to preach and share Islamic knowledge.

This inspired a robust linguistic and cultural interchange between the two groups.

Prior to Usman Dan Fodio’s 1804 jihad, Islamic practices in both Hausaland and Yorubaland were similar in their syncretism.

That is, they blended traditional African religions and Islam. In his book Imale: Yoruba Participation in the Muslim Tradition. A Study of Clerical Piety, Patrick Ryan characterised Islamic practices in Yorubaland as “accommodationist” and pointed out that Usman Dan Fodio would have condemned Yoruba Muslims as “mixers”—as he did Hausa Muslims of the time.

So, Usman Dan Fodio’s jihad was the defining point of departure between Islam in Hausaland and Islam in Yorubaland. The jihad didn’t just extirpate the accommodationist, syncretic brand of Islam previously practiced in Hausaland, it also laid the grounds for a new syncretic ethnic identity in Hausaland.

Over the years, Islam has become not just a religion but an intrinsic constituent of an evolving, increasingly expansionist, politically consequential, and largely non-primordial Hausa Muslim identity.

This fact has made Hausa the most ecumenical ethnic identity in Nigeria, by which I mean anybody can be “Hausa” provided they are Muslim, speak the Hausa language with native proficiency, dress like the Hausa, disavow allegiance to competing identities, and subscribe to the cultural consensus of the people.

That is why for most “Hausa” Muslims, Islam isn’t just a faith; it’s also an encapsulation of the totality of their identity and being. That explains why they are more emotionally invested in it—and react forcefully when it is, or perceived to be, attacked, undermined, or ridiculed—than Yoruba and other Muslims are.

Communication scholar Bala Abdullahi Muhammad once wrote in his Weekly Trust column that Hausa Muslims carry on as if Islam was revealed in Kano, as if the Qur’an was written in Hausa, and as if Islam is a uniquely primordial Hausa cultural heritage.

Even Mali and Senegambia from where Islam came to Hausaland aren’t as roused to extreme passions over Islam as “Hausa” Muslims often are.

Islam in Yorubaland, on the other hand, hasn’t quite evolved from the accommodationist character it previously shared with Islam in pre-jihad Hausaland. And because Islam has been caked into the Hausa ethnic identity and constituted as the most important building block for identity formation in Northern Nigeria so much so that “Hausa” and “Muslim” have become misleadingly synonymous in the Nigerian popular imagination, Yoruba Muslims have been compelled to privilege their ethnic identity to fend off equivalence with, and to establish difference from, “Hausa” Muslims.

In other words, the association of Islam with Hausa—or Hausa-Fulani—has led to its recalibration in even historically Muslim polities in southern Nigeria such as Yorubaland and northern Edo.

As John Paden noted in Ahmadu Bello Sardauna of Sokoto: Values and Leadership in Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello, Northern Nigeria’s first premier and great-great-grandson of Usman Dan Fodio, actively promoted Islam as Northern Nigeria’s official religion before and after independence. Professor Sakah Saidu Mahmud, in his 2004 article in the African Studies Review titled “Islamism in West Africa: Nigeria,” also pointed out that Islam in northern Nigeria emerged as “the source of identity and a medium of competition for resources and political power.”

He added that

“The regional leaders were in competition with each other as they worked to consolidate their local powers, and Islamisation was a means for promoting regional identity.” (It also caused dissension in the North and intensified the struggles for a separate “Middle Belt” region for Northern Christians). This reality put Yoruba Muslims in Western Nigeria on the spotsince the North instrumentalised Islam for identity and for competition with southern Nigeria, including Yorubaland.

Perhaps as a consequence of this, many Yoruba Muslims in pre- and post-independence Nigeria chose to conceal their Muslim names even when they were practicing, believing Muslims, just to distinguish themselves from Northern Muslims who have ethnicized Islam.

For example, a prominent pre-independence Ibadan politician by the name of Adelabu Adegoke who was famous for his electrifying oratory changed his family name from Sanusi (which he bore throughout his educational career) to Adegoke.

The fact that the Sultan of Sokoto is recognized in Nigeria as the permanent leader of Nigerian Muslims, whether or not the Sultan is knowledgeable in Islam and against the merit-drivenprinciples of leadership in Islam, hasn’t helped.

It should be noted that these are broad-brush characterisations that overlook many exceptions. There is a minority of Yoruba Muslims, for instance, who have more allegiance to Islam than they do to their ethnic identity.

For example, at a gathering of Yoruba Muslims in Akure on June 19, 2021, Sheikh Imran Molaasan, national president of Jama’at Ta’awunil Muslimeen and Iwo native, reportedly said, “If Nigeria breaks up, Yoruba Muslims will suffocate” in an Oduduwa Republic, and even implied that the resentment against the Fulani in Yorubaland masks sneaky anti-Muslim designs by Yoruba leaders who are mostly Christians.

There is also a minority Hausa ethnic nationalists who resent the “dilution” of their ethnicity with other ethnicities in the name of Islam, and there are Fulani nationalists who agonise over the progressive decline of their language, culture, and identity, but these groups are, for the most part, marginal.

Nonetheless, the foregoing background explains why most Yoruba Muslims see Logos Olori’s music video as mere harmless art not worth their time and Hausa Muslims see it as a mockery of “their” culture over which they must fight.

https://gazettengr.com/farooq-kperogi-why-yoruba-and-hausa-muslims-reacted-differently-to-music-video-shared-by-davido/

onez:
If he won free and fair, may it be well with you, otherwise may whatever is due to you in this life be forcefully taken away from you.

Don't you see you're not being fair towards me for saying all this? Look at what you're saying to a fellow Nigerian civilians because of politics.

If the Labour Party rigged the presidential election in some polling units in the South East, may you shed bitter tears because of your love ones before December.

We're patient

Her pusshy is very wide

FreeStuffsNG:
Another unwise Samuel Doe in the making in Niger Republic.

By the time they are caught later in life and cut into pieces for murdering people by extra-judicial means, the world will then say it serves them right. He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.

Don't kill anyone if the allegation is not proven beyond reasonable doubt in a court where the accused have full opportunity to defend himself or herself in court. What the usurpers in Niger are doing can be easily interpreted as propaganda to justify their treasonable felony crime which is now about to escalate to crimes against humanity.

Why is he crying though? He should be confident and bold enough to account for the money spent while he was the finance minister or he's scared someone is witch-hunting him 😐

Jackiedemie:
Renal disease are rampant and transplant are done on daily basis. However, it's the guyman where caught na thieve and thieve where never caught na guyman.

Moreover, to answer your question, they do it in disguise of family members whereas the individual is highly paid for it. Erstwhile, they used the term free donor to cover up before it busted up and govt Maje a law that all free donor must donate to those who are on the await list not individual.

Tell me the names of the people you know who did all what you claimed up there.

Deepspirituals:
Money Saved from Oil Subsidy Removal.

My Question is , Can't it be used to Fix at Least one of our Refineries if not all at least just one .

During Buhari Administration,Several Billions was Injected into Repairing it ,No Results was Recorded,The Money disappeared into thin air ...

Baba Jagaban,The Renewed hope, Help your Citizens.

I'm not a Politician nether a Follower of any , I'm just a Nigerian Who Wants the life of the common man touched Positively.

NNPCL is already repairing the PH refinery

Workch:
he also talked about manipulated figures. Did you miss that?

Show evidence he claimed the results were manipulated

Where are the Biafrans who have been abusing Soludo?

WantsandMore:
Seriously, long overdue, but then the report is also old by now, it's imperative that the recommendation are reviewed and modified to meet up with current reality/ies.

I concur

onez:
It is disheartening how Niger's military dismissed ECOWAS response to military takeover. They believed ECOWAS doesn't have the moral right to admonish when the chairman is an illegitimate president. Coup is not only when the military takes over. Coup is also when you bribe electoral officers and rig yourself in connivance with unscrupulous political class.

Coup have been happening in Nigeria before Tinubu become the president of Nigeria. Tinubu won a free and fair election, even Obi and Atiku didn't claim the election was rigged in favor of Tinubu.

Jackiedemie:
You're funny to think that people are not harvesting organs over there. Ike was just unlucky hence UK govt used him as a scape goat.

Show your evidence people who are harvesting organs are walking free in the UK, with the authorities doing nothing. Give me the list of their names and your source

eleniyan2020:
werey say I'm from Ondo,claimed your real state ogbeni...how many tax you de pay?

Please go and die oloshi. See the kind of foolish argument you want to engage yourself in early in the morning. I do not have the time for bitter and useless lowlife like you.

After the Google cable landed in Nigeria, I thought Google will be selling data like spectranet, smile, etc.

eleniyan2020:
oga ur state should be your problem...

I live, work and pay my taxes in Lagos even though am from Ondo State, so yes, what happens in Lagos is my concern.

lexy2014:
Since you have gone thru d report, then u shouldn't have any difficulty answering the questions.

So you actually think Tinubu is splitting ministries because of oronsaye report?

Have those ministries not been split before?

Will another round of resplitting not further increase the cost of governance when they claim that there is no money?

Go through the report, read it and understand, am not here on Nairaland to explain or answer your questions. I don't owe you anything.

lexy2014:
It's very easy to deceive some of us in this country. So you actually think Tinubu is splitting ministries because of oronsaye report?

Have those ministries not been split before?

Will another round of resplitting not further increase the cost of governance when they claim that there is no money?

Go through that report again, read and understand what the article is all about.

CJStarz:
Okezie himself said he wouldn't take the new administration to court but his party did.

The PDP have a strong case in court then if the OP is saying the truth.

onumadu:
Even if Kanu comes out today from detention (released totally), Simon Ekpa would not listen to him on anything.
Reason? Because Ekpa is not fighting for any Biafra.
He is a fifth columnist - a wolf in sheep skin.
And he is not alone...
I remember vividly, how some people led by udene formed one criminal group called BSMS (Biafra special military squad), and only God knows how many Igbo and others they led to their deaths.
This Biafra thing has produced some of the most devilish actors in Igboland, and the most baffling thing is that these actors are laser-focused on destroying Igbo people.
Why focus on their own people? Only God knows why.
Simon Ekpa is EXACTLY of that hue.

Kanu wrote that letter knowing fully well that Ekpa would not obey the order.
Kanu was only trying to openly wash his hands off Ekpa's criminal acts.
So, no surprises there.

Kanu is no different from Simon Ekpa. While he was a free man in the UK, he was behaving exactly like Ekpa. He's only being humbled now because he's lockup

fuckJones:
May 4 - Alex Otti picks APC Guber form
May 26 - Alex Otti dumps APC
May 27 - Alex Otti joins Labour Party
June 9 - Alex Otti becomes Labour candidate

Sadly, the law do not care about emotions.

This is serious and a big problem for Mr Alex Otti, I think he's not gonna escape from this.

I don't think the PDP in Abia State went to the tribunal

Is full of lies but you still choose to post the lies

I've seen this kind of thread on Nairaland few days ago but I didn't believe the news back then. I'm glad Tinubu is truly working on the Stephen Oronsaye report.

And obi supporters were making it seem as if touts only disrupt few polling units in Lagos.

IconicR:
That's good , I don't know why Ekweremadu is still being held unjustly. That boy involved in his saga isn't as innocent as people thought but the hatred Nigerians have for the rich folk will make them blind to the truth. Once you are rich in Nigeria, you are guilty of everything.

You must be thinking the UK is Nigeria where anything goes

Workch:
So why is he in tribunal?

He's at the tribunal because the opposition claim Tinubu and Shettima are not qualified to contest in the election. The petition of Obi and Atiku is out in the open, go and read why they are at the tribunal.