₦airaland Forum

delpee:
Lol at our wonderful pastors. Some are great givers though.
The group is not on Facebook etc. It's more of a private/personal commitment on their part to give back to society and appreciate Gods goodness. Probably at a stage they may wish to raise funds for the bigger projects in conjunction with the National Alumni body. It will be made public at that point in time. Thanks.

That's a great initiative though. You sound like you're part of their team.

[size=14pt]How Akure Is Building A Promising Tech Startup Culture And Community
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While Akure may never have appeared on any lists of tech startup hubs in unlikely places around the world, the largest city and capital of Ondo State in the South-Western region of Nigeria is gradually starting a movement to mould a tech startup culture and community.

No, it’s not Governor Mimiko’s administration that is driving this movement.

In case you’ve not heard, Akure wants to grow a cluster of startups through the Akure Startup Drive initiative that could see several cutting edge, digital, innovative tech companies operating in Akure, thus making it a hub for development and investment.

Far from being a state government initiative or any other institutionally-financed initiative, the Akure Startup Drive is “a blend of trainings, events, mentorship and real-life learning by working on real projects,” driven by young tech entrepreneurs who are leading thinkers and doers within the community.

The movement is open to young programmers, designers, marketers, project managers and tech inclined business men, especially those already working on an existing startup or tech-based project.

Already, there are quite a few awesome tech-based and Internet companies coming out of the city with a population of over 400,000 people and home to the Federal University of Technology, popularly known as FUTA. One of such companies is Omnific Labs launched in August 2011 to build several innovative products and services that solve real-life problems.

For example, the company launched OneCrier last August, a service (initially available at FUTA) that connects you to the events you are most interested in attending via SMS on your mobile device. Today, it announced a massive upgrade to the service with a more robust platform and spam-free event alert delivery system, adding new cities such as Lagos, Abuja and Yenagoa.

In addition, Akure has already played host to two TEDx events held last year which attempted to see and think the future as regards human capacity and infrastructural development in virtually all sectors that relates to economic and intellectual growth.

With the likes of FUTArians and software developers such as Ademola Morebise, David Olaniyan, Taiwo Orogbangba, Olusola Amusan and others leading and inspiring a new cadre of tech entrepreneurs in the emerging startup city, I believe that Akure will soon create a haven of tech thinkers and doers.

Most importantly, it would be great to see how the Akure Startup Drive would produce forward-thinking entrepreneurs and professionals who can build cutting edge, digital, innovative tech startups that can actually compete on a global scale.

scholes0:
You should be as proud of Lagos as she is. It will forever a crown jewel in yoruba real estate.
Although I tend to favour the development of the hinterland. Places like Akure and Sagamu can be great locations for tech hubs and industries.

Correct!
Lagos/Ogun for commercial, Akure for tech hub, hopefully Ekiti for Agriculture.


[size=14pt]Ondo State’s Innovation Hub Launches Project To Map-Up Akure
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Ondo’s first innovation hub, Eco-Innovation Hub is teaming up with the Ondo State government and Google to bring prominent locations in the city of Akure to Google Maps.

Through the project, the hub hopes to bring together about 50 young Nigerians some of whom are citizen cartographers to identify, edit and upload locations around the city including monuments, government infrastructures, financial institutions, hospitality businesses in the ancient town of Akure to Google Maps.

The project co-ordinator for the Akure Map-Up project, Akande Adeoluwa told TechLoy that the big plan is to place the whole of Ondo State on Google Maps, thereby making local businesses and tourist attractions in the state visible around the world.

The pilot phase of the Akure Map-Up project has been scheduled for August 8-10 and invites interested people to sign up to participate at the event here.

http://techloy.com/2013/07/25/ondo-states-innovation-hub-launches-project-to-map-up-akure/

We believe you, please post this on a Jews website. Na dem need it the most.

Lcal news. Move this post to Linda Ikeji abeg

yemaldo:
Am not talking about present ilorin, am talking about old oyo empire

I know. I'm not trying to be snide, I really want to know why they wanted Ilorin.

Seems like igbo noisemakers don tire.

They're still wailing from Deji's presidential flogging.

lygn19:
yes now just as we were blaming cameroun people for the kidnap of our leader olu falae, dat the kidnappers were cameroun people in disguise wearing fulani attire. I pray this cameroun people who disguise as fulani dont kidnap our king Oba deji of Akure we would have no choice than to blame calabar people they put on fulani disguise to deceive us.

So, have you kidnapped deji yet?

delpee:
The focus is on a particular school. Those in North America/ Canada had successfully built a block of toilets, renovated a classroom block and donated computers and laptops to the school and the teachers. They also provided a borehole. Those are the ones I know.

The current mission I referred to is being run by a group of about 50 reunited classmates resident in different parts of the world. They're pooling funds together and will soon pick a project from the list drawn by the school and the old students association.

Do you have pictures, website, links etc?

If they're transparent enough, they may get more sponsors from nlers.

The funny thing about all of this is that one Yoruba pastors can build 5 boreholes, equip 50 schools with modern computers and pay for 50 student's tuitions without blinking an eye.

I hope they take their wealth to "heaven".

lygn19:
yes now just as we were blaming cameroun people for the kidnap of our leader olu falae, dat the kidnappers were cameroun people in disguise wearing fulani attire. I pray this cameroun people who disguise as fulani dont kidnap our king Oba deji of Akure we would have no choice than to blame calabar people they put on fulani disguise to deceive us.

Why wait for cameroun? Why not trap him yourself since he flogged your king?
coward pele

yemaldo:
Get a copy of history of yoruba

Ok, in the meantime, please tell us.

It's better to leave this thread for Fulani dogs.

When they tire themselves, they'll seek government assistant for their raped women.

Where's that Jessica girl and Rose14?

illiad:
Shame on you, fellow!

The yorubas say when a hawk is about to carry away a chicken one must first chase away the hawk before blaming the mother hen for exposing it's chickens to danger.


Shame is a very important virtue in life and you yorubas on nairaland lack every iota of shame.

What's this one saying?

Do you want to be flogged too?

lygn19:
kai eurobar boy, I get am for koboko well well and go soon reach am for ur oba of akure head .

I get you, you're too afraid to speak out.

Trust igbo cowards to ignore this

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Fulani herdsmen attacks: Enugu women protest, urge govt action
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Oct 25

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/fulani-herdsmen-attacks-enugu-women-protest-urge-govt-action/

IlekeHD:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/fulani-herdsmen-kill-village-chief-in-enugu/
Coward, they more than sneezed. What have you done?

lygn19:
lol... mumu keep consoling yourself, its just dat yoruba gals are too ugly because I already have my fulani attire on I would have remembered ur sister .

Seriously, what have you people done?

At least Yorubas are making noise about it.

lygn19:
lol... come igbo land come sneeze nah coward, cane would be child's play na plank we go use for dat ur cone head, we would try and flaten it

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/fulani-herdsmen-kill-village-chief-in-enugu/

Coward, they more than sneezed. What have you done?

yemaldo:
1)ilorin comprises of 5 local govt (asa, moro, ilorin south, East and west) of all those local government you'll only see larger population of fulani in ilorin west, and what majority don't understand is that these people have been yorubanized, u can stay a whole year in ilorin west and you'll hardly see anyone speaking fulani,these people will call themselves fulani but cannot speak their language anymore, they eat amala like mad and even give themselves yoruba name(the emir included) u can ask anyone schooling in ilorin
2)aside from larger population of fulani from d west, the remaining 4 local govt are yoruba even majority of fulani in west can't speak their language

3)issue of emir of ilorin is not a shame ilorin people alone should face, it's a slap on yoruba race, afonja invited the fulani to fight for him after betraying Aladin and they almost finished oyo empire, from oyo Ile (no present on) ogbomoso etc but the Yoruba fought back and when the get to ilorin they stopped, tell my why, ilorin was very important to oyo empire back then.
Afonja house in ilorin till date don't see eye to eye, they hate each other like mad, late govn Lawal tried to install a yoruba king in ilorin but he failed because d emir had people backing him from feds
3)if Nigeria divided today, do you think ogbomoso will be d boundary between west and North? I think the boundary will be in kogi state

What's in Ilorin that makes it so precious?

lygn19:
igbos I urge u all to start learning about the hausa/fulani language and culture, start dressing like them in Yoruba land. As far as u dress like them u can wear 5 crowns to oba of akures palace and even kidnap him and his guards would give way for u. Take it from me ciz right now am on my way to sokoto to get my own fulani attire

So in other words, igbos fear to misbehave in Yorubaland. We get

Rayhut:
Igbos are the only tribe in Nigeria that Fulani have a fear for, igbos fought them back in Kano, the problem of most Yorubas is that they hardly travel, in the north Fulani fear Igbo and call them nyamiri and shout on few Yorubas living in the north and call them Baralebe, go and find out the meaning of Nyamiri and Baralebe

lmaooooooooo

Thank you for that humor.

delpee:
@Ilekehd

You asked how we can improve on the educational system.

I am aware of an alumni (set) group which came up with a way to harmonise the financial contributions and physical/moral efforts of classmates in Nigeria and the diaspora for effective performance and result. They started by setting up a joint bank account. It is managed by three people,two of whom are Chartered Accountants. The bank statements are made available by email to everyone as well as bank alerts through a WhatsApp group chat forum. The transparent bookkeeping system makes it easy for everyone to get along without grudges or fear of losses.

Decisions are taken by majority votes on any issue. Discussions are mostly by email and WhatsApp to generate ideas and agree on projects and modalities. The diasporans had successfully constructed a building in the school and are now working with Naija based mates to work on a legacy project for the school. In addition, they are looking at a long term mentorship programme for the students and training/ facility support for the teachers.

If many groups come up like this with the determination to succeed, we'll see drastic changes in Southwest schools.

Sounds good.

What projects have they successfully carried out? Have they branched out to other communities?

oyb:


naaa

i just saw the 5 mentions

Cool....are you back on nl or just viewing?

So as a Kwaran, do you consider yourself Yoruba or a Northerner?

IlekeHD:
Countless Yorubas in Fulani regions?

Where exactly?

FFK is a noisemaker, that's for sure. But in this event, we must overlook the messenger and focus on the riddle.

1. Fulanis are vandalizing farms in the SW

2. Fulanis are murderers.

3. It's not Yorubas fault for Fulani's illiteracy

4. Fulani politicians are rich, so why is the north not developed to a manageable standard?

This is my original post.

If the rest of the south won't end Fulani menace in their region, the SW will.

depezee:
Ndi ofe. Fear fear idiots... Mtcheeeew!

Lol at this igbo cockroach in one alaba market claiming bravery.

When will Igbos go to the North and demand freedom?

lygn19:
mumu, keep beating around d bush first a prominent fool from the Southwest was kidnapped by fulanis out of cowardice u people started saying the fulani herdsmen were igbos in fulani disguise, until the kidnappers were caught immediately u guys changed mouth to that they are ordinary criminals, now a fulani man came to your land and insulted all your elders and leaders story changed that its for yoruba interest, but one igbo man wore a crown to an obas palace and hell let loose, ediots.

No one is beating around the bush. Unless you have a specific conversation you want to hear.

Do you want Yorubas to say they'll go to war for you? Do you want them to say they'll separate Nigeria for you?

90% of comments on this thread were generated by igbo cowards for the same purpose that they can't go to the North/Abuja and demand freedom.

This thread is about Fulanis in the SW. Why igbos are doing Fulani's job for them is beyond me.

Descartes:
When shall the Yorubas learn from history? Your kinsmen once sold MKO for just a plate of porridge

I'd ask igbos the same question in the case of Ijaw and Biafra. Ojukwu's greed to include Ijaw sea ports caused the downfall of Biafra. Have you learned? Now youre making the same mistake.

But this i thread is not about igbo cowards, even though it is infiltrated by them, the mission of the thread is to discuss Fulani menace in the SW.

lygn19:
all of a sudden it has turned to yoruba interest, but if its igbos you would be hearing our land our land.... thunder fire all of una there including that una cursed oba of akure.

Igbo coward, a Yoruba interest means we extract the leeches and tse-tse flies from the SW or put you to order.

I'm sure the Fulanis on NL are happy that their igbo slaves did their work for them. But plz continue, we're listening

oyb:
i dey ; its just that this new linda ikeji nl . . .

Heyyyyyy

Wowwwww long time. Did Jarus refer you to this thread?

Rayhut:
Igbo people are diplomatic and brave, Yoruba people must overlook Fulani menace if they don't want to lose more territory like kwara, Igbos don't believe in incessant blood shedding, but Fulani the only language they know is sword which Yoruba cannot withstand

My friend, shut up

Igbos that haven't done anything about one of their leaders death in the hands of Fulani?

Or news that Fulanis are raping their women?

Keep quiet and continue beating your chest on this thread.

Igbo cowards won't abuse a Fulani man, they'll lick his azz like they do Saraki's.

The oba in akure took matters into his own hands. Even then, other Yoruba kings kept mum.
It's either they're talking behind closed doors or something is really wrong.
Last I heard, Fulanis were paying Yoruba kings. If true, then something is really wrong.

LouisVanGaal:
I would just advice kwankwaso to shed any 2019 ambition away, if he is still nursing ANY...he should just forget SW votes..as it stands, they would even prefer Saraki to him...
The guy is a total embarrassment!
There's wisdom in Silence...YORUBAs pls don't engage/dignify him with response again...till the next general election! Gush! The impudence is terrifying!

I honestly hope the Fulanis continue with this manner because something needs to wake Yorubas up. It's time to enforce regionalism if Nigeria won't break apart.

luchy34:
hypocrisy indeed! when the deji of Akure humiliated eze ndigbo for no reason, you guys just infested the thread like a colony of bees. For one week all manner of useless threads were created to spite Igbos. Now someone have insulted you guys, right here in your domain, and to think of it Ibadan of all places, telling your so called elders to SHUT UP! God forbid this is the height of impunity, and all you say is to focus on Yoruba interest. Thank your God you have the likes of FFK and Fayose that are bold enough to stand for your people... Tufiakwa

Don't you have Ijaws azz to wipe? Create a Madueke/GEJ thread abeg....