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Johnpaul88:
Whatever scores we've got to settle, will be ironed out here, in the full glare of all. Nothing cladestine, in whatever guise, form or manner, shall be attached. We, in the Great Ife, win and are always SEEN to have won. Let me address some of the issues u raised. CULTISM- I make bold to say that due to the invisible student unionism that exists in OAU now, the issues of cult activity is near impossible. Great Ife Students walk the campus as free as air at any time of the day. As i write this, i am at a lecture theatre,BOOC, where i am doing my studies. If u ask anyboby who may know the place, he will concur that it is far removed from halls of residence esp angola or moz, or even awo. But i have no slightess doubt in my mind that i may be attacked while going back to my room in Angola to sleep. INCESSANT STRIKES - Apart from the national strikes which OAU is not immuned to, internal strikes have reduced drastically - at least i am yet to see one since my admission. Though there may be lecture boycott in a bid to press home one demand or the other as the case may be, by the students. OLD LECTURERS - I put it to u without fear of contradictions, that OAU parade the youngest Ph.D holders as lecturers as evident in my dept (maths). We have 37 lecturers- 5 profs., 26 P.hD holders and 6 graduate assistants( M.sc). Of course u cannot downplay the importance of old lecturers and profs, their old notes notwithstanding, they make teaching and learning look real than imagine. I will await your rejoinder on these.

I make bold to say too that Ife is the freest campus in Nigeria, at least between 2001-2006 that I was there. Sometimes, I left my Awo room for Pharmacy lecture theatre, or even Agric at times, at 2 am. I walked freely, and we are talking of distance of almost two kilometres here. Ladies walked around without any fear of assault in teh midnight.

dayokanu:
Wetin dey smell so? You get soak-away for mouth

Abi na him mouth dem bury Bola Ige?

Great Ife 50%, UI and Lag share the remaining 50%

Great Ife - where all-round university education begins and ends. Or you think, it is for nothing that Gani Fawehinmi, on his deathbed, said his body may be given to the University of Ife?

What's happening here?

Tsiya:
A ina ka koyi Hausan?, meaning where did you learnt hausa?

Cofa Sokoto 2007/2008.

Odunnu:
Lol. I was born in the north. Actually grew up there as well.

Too, Yoowa

I opened this thread to pass a message to folks on this section - and on NL in general - that have taken tribal wars to olympian heights.
The spate at which we disrespect and insult Nigeria's past heroes, especially the pre-independence nationalists and the First republic political leaders is very worrisome.
The leaders I'm talking about here are Dr Nnamdi Azikwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sirs Ahmadu Bello and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and Aare Samuel Ladoke Akintola.
Some of our Igbo friends have not stopped at anything to hurl insults at Chief Obafemi Awolowo for, rightly or wrongly, being anti-Igbo.
Our Yoruba and Igbo friends have also not stopped at anything to give it back to them. And these two display unity to castigate Ahmadu Bello and TB.
Zik, ironically, is getting his own pound from his Ibo children, for no other offence that he did not play sectional politics. Some of them called him stooge of the Ahmadu Bellos and TBs of the North.

But guys, have we ever considered that the regional, decentralized system of their era essentially called for sectional interest, or tribalism, if that's what you want to call it?

I acknowledge the fact that everybody is free to discuss anything he likes here, but why have we concentrated on the short-comings of these men, and discount almost to zero their incomparable contributions to this nation, mother of all being the struggle for and achievement of independence.

Why is it that anytime their names are mentioned, insults begin to fly around?
Why have we forgotten the enduring legacies of Awo/Akintola: free education, University of Ife, Cocoa House, first TV station etc?
Why have we forgotten Zik's irrepressible media war, through his newspaper, in the struggle to extricate this country from the clutches of colonialists?
Why have we forgotten the TB/AB's austere lifestyle and lessons in selfless governance? Ahmadu Bello it was who went from primary school to primary school in the northern region, advising the pupils to join military. Like a prophet, the man's vision for hsi people paid off, as those children later became Generals and some became Heads of state, setting the background for northern domination in military decades later.

Surely, even with the tribal thing, these guys were far more useful, not only to their people, but to the Nation at large, than the so-called detribalized leaders of today.
I'm not sure these leaders will be proud of those of us that have taken as business insulting their comtemporaries from other tribes in the name of defending them.

After all, we see their pictures standing side by side in the interest of this country. Why do we, their supporters, then fight over them?
These leaders don't deserve this from us.

This is food for thought, guys.

Odunnu:
Og Jarus,Ba turanci.
Ni yar arewa ke nan!

Najin hausan kadakadan
Don Allah, answer my question in turenci

excanny:
Ta koya hausawa a gidan na

Bros, NL be your own house?

Yes, that's teh ONLY permutation Nigeria MAY not qualify. But with all these Madagascars, Lesothos, Sierra Leone(?), Niger, Equitorial Guineas ineviatbly in our group, we will always qualify.

Odunnu,
Where you learn Hausa? Just curious

I'm following this thread o, only on read-only mode . .and learning

U no get 'while you are typing, one new response has entered, you may want to review your post' b4 u post that?  

sorry, I meant 2008 in Ghana, when host beat us 2-1 in 1/8.

Barka Jum'ah in arrears

honeric01:
^^^^

Bro, i mean am, if we no qualify to nations cup, i no go watch footie for 6 months.

Same here too. Even if we use Enyimba or Kano Pillars, we will still qualify. Except maybe the group is amde up of Nigeria-Ghana-Egypt-CIV, and only one team must qualify, which is not possible, because these teams are always seeded.

Why we will always qualify:
1, Two nations qualify from each group, or firsts plus a number of best losers. If we narrowly miss first position in our group, we will come second at worst, and end up as best loser if second doesnt qualify automatically.
2, And there will always at least 2 Lesothos, Zimbabwes, Nigers, Benins, Ugandas, Equitorial Guineas in our group
3, People easily quote our inability to qualify for Germany 2006, forgetting that we were the best loser in the world, or the nearest-there, if anything like that existed. We had same point with the team that went, Angola, and better goal difference, we only lost out due to one questionable rule called 'head-to-head' which has now been dropped.

So I don't bother myself with ANC qualifiers, qualification for it is our birthright. In afct, geting to Semis in that tournament is also our birthright. Since 1982, it is only once(this year) that we did not get to semi final,

First, I take strong exception to your comment that I use my mod position to promote SLS. Show me a Sanusi thread I sticky, or an anti-Sanusi comment I delete. I opened this thread. I have opened scores of it before I became Mod. Anybody can open thread, mod or member. So where have I used my Mod privilege to promote SLS. That's uncharitable.

That said, the article is not for NL alone, it's even for the larger populace, but as I do sometimes, I have only made a copy available here for discussion and criticisms.
The article is in no way a celebration or champagne popping. I wondered why RP suddenly went underground and put it to paper.

WHAT I LIKE MOST:
FORMER WORKPLACE: That sumptuous free lunch; very nice bosses; networking - met many corporate big shots I had been seeing in papers in person within short time;
CURRENT WORKPLACE: Some level of flexibility & relaxed environment; religious freedom & understanding: one of the very few companies in Lagos you can leave your desk and go and pray; prestige & respect - on the knowledge that you work in this coy;

WHAT I DISLIKE MOST
FORMER: Closing late; inability to pray at right times;
CURRENT: No free lunch 

zubeyr:
Salafis are at the roots of all Muslims problems today most of them are narrow minded harsh in their interpretations of the quran and sunna their tribals cultures mixed with a rigid views vis a vis of women and minorities make them the worst school of thought in Islam ibn Abdel wahhab ibn teymiyyah and ibn Alqayim are the leaders of this movement

I'm not meant to say this, but honestly, you diminish in my estimation for this statement.
Salafi remains the greatest reformer of this ummah. How can Ibn Taymiyyah be a problem to this ummah.

Continue here:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-541502.0.html#bot

. .and you must open a new thread to tell him

omo, this is interesting o
last thing I can imagine, given Baba's proverbial skills and adroitness in Yoruba language and culture.

hercules07:
@Bluetooth

You have to look hard to see where he is coming from. You know when someone has something to say but does not know how to get his point across, add a little bit of bad grammar and a lot of maps and you have BCR. We should actually commend him for his maps have greatly reduced, posts are actually made without maps nowadays. The new and improved BCR has relegated mappings for now, long may it continue.

Maps replaced by horrorful and ghost pictures

Becpmrich is not a racist, he doesn't insult other races/tribes. He i only close being to being a Yoruba supremacist.

hercules07:
If you look hard enough, you will see the sense in his posts, you will of course have to look past the written english, you might also have to rearrange some of the words, at the end sha, you will get the gist of his message.

all before you undertsand BCR

It is not possible. Nigeria will always qualify for ACN, no matter how bad they start.

Asamoah Gyan there, Milito not. This is a joke. Scored crucial, decisive goals for Inter, UCL winner. 30 goals in all competitions.
Gyan scored just one goal from open play - against USA. Others were from the spot.

tkb417:
na wa oh

my bosses got a whiff from somewhere ill leave for 'greener pastures'

what did i get this morning

Letter detailing my new pay with a new portfolio

is this a good thing or a ploy to tie me here

i dont know if i should shout halleluyah or just shut my mouth

God dey

take the money jare . . same happened here early this year . .I slowed gear on my CBN Abuja dream shap shap

chosen04:
Jarus, so where were you when the story in the link below was making headlines?


http://thewestandothers..com/2007/06/can-you-spot-difference-2.html

June 2007? Oh, this is what NYSC did to me? I dey bush that time serving my country . . .and my mouth

Following comments ahead the 2007 polls, that the South-West, through Obasanjo had held power for eight years and as such should not expect power until 40 years later when the other five zones would have tasted power, some Yoruba leaders alleged that Obasanjo was biologically an Igbo man.

According to them, Obasanjo’s father was Onyekwelu from Onitsha in Anambra State and so his reign should be viewed as an Igbo reign.Unlike Obasanjo, he did not react to the allegation

Hey, I'm just hearing this for the first time. Na wa o.I now agree that if you want to know your history or teh history of your lineage, join politics and seek elective post.

seanet02:
until we solve the red post

Wanna engage in English grammar competition with me?

But, dude, honestly, what do you gain in all these tribal rants? All these Awo is bad, Zik is bad, TB is bad, Ahmadu Bello is bad threads seriosuly irritate me.
Definitely, this is not Awoism. You don't love Awolowo more than Bola Ige or even my biological dad, but reading supposed schooled adults thrive on infantile arguments like thsi sickens me.

Guys, we need to grow. Let's discuss their policies, their legacies, their programmes, their struggle for independence, not some tales about who killd who, who starved who.

Awo himself will not be proud of this.