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Bialegend:
Do not speak for Ikales because you are not one of them, let them come in here and prove you right or wrong which i am sure youy are. I believe we have people from Ikale in this forum.

The father of my Pastor was a king. Who are a better repository of history than the Royal fathers? You see kiddo, Yorubas don't have an identity problem. We know our history, we know where we are coming from and it is not our fault that Your wandering tribe with no heritage, history are desperately looking for an identity.
It is not our fault that the first time your primitive bush tribe witnessed the taste of civilisation was when your Ijaw MASTERS captured your ancestors and sold them into SLAVERY for a bottle of DRY GIN and MIRRORS.
You that have no history wants to rewrite someone else's history because of the cheap 10mb you were given. Omo irankiran

dictbennie:
Oga, before you come here to inform gullible persons trash here, let me educate you....The Apoi's of ondo state are not yorubas, they migrated from Apoi clan in Bayelsa state just like the Arogbos that migrated from Gbaraun in Bayelsa state...the Apoi's bear Yoruba names nd speak like them because of the influence of their neighbours I.e the ikales and the Ilajes..Even the arogbos include some Yoruba words to the Ijaw dialect they speak...As I am talking to you, the Apoi's have traced their origin to the Apoi clan of Bayelsa state which speak the same dialect ijaw like the Arogbos and have started calling their kids ijaw names..I have a few of them as friends...and a family friend was one of the persons that went to Bayelsa then...That's far the Apoi's are now telling their arogbo brothers that they are not more ijaw than them....The AROGBO IJAWS and the APOI'S are pure Ijaw people.....any Apoi man that denies it, doesn't know his origin...simple!

Yes, just as the Onitsha people are not Igbos because their Ancestors were from Benin. Azikiwe even confirmed it in his biography.

Bialegend:
I can easily re-author the wikipedia contents, so no sane human should rely on wikipedia for serious information.

If you can, you would have done so and gleefully shove the link down our throats. Your kind have been "factory-fitted" to cause trouble and mischief.

Bialegend:
Do not speak for Ikales because you are not one of them, let them come in here and prove you right or wrong which i am sure youy are. I believe we have people from Ikale in this forum.

My pastor is an old man. I am very close to him, I am the one that do his ironing. We discuss at great lengths and he tells me the history of his people often. You are only out to cause mischief.

Bialegend:
Believe me, my co-worker gave me serious warning never to call him Yoruba. He insisted that he is Ilaje and never to be called Yoruba. Why?

Even the Apoi Ijaws in Ondo state are very Yoruba.

My Pastor is Ikale, he is even more Yoruba than me. These tribes you mentioned are Yoruba as 6 is half a dozen.

Though we are still in the rainy season and there is enough water in the dams to power our hydro electric turbines. But overall one should note that the level of electricity supply is significantly higher than previous rainy season. Kudos to whoever is responsible.

Then you know You have carried a beehive on your head (O TI RU IGI OYIN)

Pics or........

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abagoro:
This only confirms the hypocrisy of many Igbos. Tell me the difference between Ojukwu's action and that of Okorocha. Like Okorocha once said, if Ojukwu was alive he would have joined APC.

Words on marble.

#whenyoufinallyblow Make you no forget Area. Don Jazzy representing AJ CITY very well. A VERY WISE GUY.

Jhenny:
nigerians taking panadol for another person's headache. Wetin be her own na. D baby mama no complain wetin come be ya own,ehn??

Oyamilenu ooo. They want him to show the lady off so they can have something to gossip about. This is why "celebrity unions" crash. Everything is show off, later they blame the media for the cause of their crash when they cannot keep their PRIVATE LIFE PRIVATE.

sylvar02:
Haba

I say I thought oooo. That is not Dr Lucas uniform.

I thought Basket mouth attended Dr Lucas memorial college kirikiri alongside Daddy Showkey

T4taiwo:
Reply soon.

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Fleshly:
FFK has said it all, the yorubas exhibit a coward mentality of fear and pretence, and that is what they call intelligence. What intelligence are we even talking of here, as-in which intelligence if I may ask.

Intelligence that makes them to be the dirtiest swines in Nigeria, or the intelligence that makes them to be the tribe with the highest number of professors (a myth that has been bursted time and time again) or is it the intelligence that makes them to be eternal slaves to the almajiris, or maybe the intelligence that makes thier leaders to be played Iike some two bit hustlers.

Most unfortunately they will be played again by this regime, and instead of backtracking on time just as a host of their folks like FFK, Doyin Okupe, Yinks Odumakin, the OPC and their obas are doing and have done, they will rather chose to take the part of cowardice.

The strength you wasted on typing this poo should have instead been used to continue your biafran agitation.
Yorubas are cowards, agreed but your brave fathers that fought the biafran war met their WATERLOO at ORE. IN THE HANDS OF THE "COWARDLY" YORUBA SOLDIERS.
THEY CHASED YOUR. BRAVE WARLORD TO IVORY COAST IN SKIRT AND BLOUSE.
HISTORICALLY THE FOUGHT WARS, CONQUERED AND BUILT EMPIRES BUT YOUR BRAVE TRIBE DID NOT BUILD AN ANT-HILL.
YOUR PEOPLE ARE SO BRAVE AND MORE COURAGEOUS THAT THE RAN AWAY TO THER VILLAGES (WHEN NOTHING WAS PURSUING THEM) TO EAT NGWOGWO AND PALMY DURING OSO ABIOLA RIOTS AND THE COWARDLY YORUBAS STAYED BEHIND.
STATE THAT ONE BATTLE YOUR COURAGEOUS TRIBE HAS WON AGAINST THE COWARDLY YORUBAS?
YORUBAS ARE SLAVES BECAUSE they formed a merger of political parties to send GEJ back to his village and their son is the VP? The Hausas/Fulani (slave masters) have been VP to a Yoruba man so, they are equally our SLAVES too in your warped Analogy. YORUBAS are SLABE MASTERS too in their own rights but your "freeeborn" tribes have always been and will SLAVES to two Slave masters TAFAWA BALEWA/AZIKIWE
SHAGARI/EKWUEME
BASHIR TOFA/UGOH
the second are the IJAWS who will forever be your SLAVE MASTERS. They fought against and jeopardize your Biafran dreams. Seized your properties in the Niger Delta during and after the war. Used you as errand boys to campaign for GEJ (whose ANUS your elders still kill themselves to lick) during the last election.
You still need the support of your SLAVE MASTERS in the SS to achieve your IPOB ambition that you have to include them in your phantom biafra land.
Isn't it IRONIC that Your "courageous " and "free born" tribe cannot stand on their own ALONE?

agurza:
The problem is Nairaland is full of lazy students who never read their books to pass exams but depends on expo. What a serious student need to do on hearing such news is go Google and make some research. But just go through most of posts and you can't help but pity the next generation.

You are quite correct. The most sorry aspect is when you see people giving warped opinion on issues the haven't the slightest idea about.

celemel:
Corruption. That canker-worm has burrowed a comfortable home in the main fabric of the Nigerian Customs Service. You feel it everywhere you turn. It stares you in the face. It is so present; so visceral, so real. It stands next to you. It is by your side. It is everywhere. It is a way of life. It is the blood of the agency. It is all that the service represents. I used to think that the Nigeria Police Force is deep in the art, until my recent experience unraveled the stench that oozes from the bowels of this modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.
It all started in April this year, when a relation of mine decided to import a used car from the United States. He contacted me, an “omo Eko”, to be his “ears and eyes” to get the vehicle cleared from Tin Can Island Port through a clearing and forwarding agent. I quickly contacted an agent, upon recommendation by another friend. He “shocked” me by saying that clearing a used car from Tin Can Island Port is akin to passing the proverbial camel through the needle’s eye. He estimated that I may spend as much as the cost of the car in the port before I can lay hands on it. I thought it was a joke.
I handed the Bill of Lading to him to start processing. He reported back the next day that the Customs demanded for N0.5 million before they can “value” the car, else I would have to pay more than N 7,000,000.00 to clear! I was alarmed and I resisted.
After 2 weeks of back and forth, I decided to visit the port myself. I hitched a SeaCoaster boat ride across the Lagos Lagoon and in 5 minutes, I was face-to-face with barefaced corruption. Impunity beyond belief. I was tossed around like a yoyo, until I finally got to the office of one Mr. Kolo Baba Jiiyah, the PA to the Controller for Tin Can Port, Mrs. Talatu. His office is tucked in the inner recesses of the Customs compound in Tin Can. Seated on a desk by his corner is a full-size framed photograph of Talatu, an obviously overfed bulky woman, struggling between a bulging tummy and the demands of her “salute” posture, standing on an epitaph that read “African Customs Officer of the Year 2013”. The drapes that formed the backdrop obviously depicted the colors of Ghana, where the "award" was handed. This much was confirmed by the next statement: “award given in Accra, Ghana blablabla…”. While I scanned the office, Mr. Kolo was busy on the phone, negotiating with someone on the other side about “money for madam” and the other stakeholders, and the one that must go to Abuja. The phone call dragged on and on, until another customs lady came in to toss a bulging envelope to Kolo. He dropped the call, took a look and the envelope and asked how much. The woman replied 3M. He smiled, opened his steel cabinet and tossed it in. He said the amount was less than they negotiated and the customs woman replied that the man said he ran out of cash completely!And I waited.
It went past 1 hour after I arrived when he spoke to me. His tone was commanding. I should get out of his office and look for money to clear my car. He referred me to “valuation” - a unit in the agency, across the road where arbitrary values are placed on imported whares. I got there sharply. It is a reprehensible sight of commotion, confusion, chaos and disorganization. Hundreds of rowdy men and women loiter around the vicinity, wheeling and dealing. Most of them, from the Eastern side of our dear country. Money was changing hands in quick succession. People were literally standing on their heads to scramble for valuation papers. I sauntered into the Valuation Officer's dingy office, clutching unto my car papers. He momentarily looked at me, and requested that I wait outside. After about an hour, I intruded into his office space aain and demanded that I be attended to. The valuation man referred me back to Kolo with a caveat that only Kolo is responsible for cars that were made from 2014 upwards. That was how the day ended.
Another two weeks after, the agent came with a paper stating that customs insisted I must send N 4 million and the corresponding N.05 million for officers. In frustration, I sent the money. The agent went to get the car but brought a Skye Bank Teller that read N3,200,000.00 paid in favor of the Nigeria Customs Service! I instantly knew that I had been swindled. And I would not take it. The car did not come out either. So, I returned to Tin Can Island. Whodunit?
I connected with my agent again and demanded that he shows me the man that he handed over half a million Naira to! He took me to Kolo. Kolo again? It crossed my mind that I actually complained to Kolo in my earlier visit that someone in the Customs Service, was demanding for money to clear my car. I expected that he would “do something” about it. I never knew that he was the actual culprit! I sensed that something grander, deeper and more odoriferous was in that place. Something sinister yet familiar. I decided to dig deeper.
My agent told me that paying money to Kolo and indeed, his “Oga Madam” is a way of life. That the money is shared around, and that a share must be sent to Abuja for the Controller-General. He said that I was lucky to be billed only half a million.
I confronted Kolo about the sleaze. He told me to rather focus on my car, than think about how much I spent! Few hours after, I was told that the rates for clearing cars have been adjusted by the new government of President Buhari; that my car cannot come out again.
In astonishment, I went to Oga Madam. She told me to go look for another N2.8 million Naira to clear the car; that the code that was used to make my earlier payment to customs in Skye Bank was no longer valid since customs had upgraded the system! She was very audacious. Very commanding. Very haughty. Very in-charge. There was something fundamentally not ok with that woman. I continued to dig!
I was told that she is an “untouchable” within the customs system. I was told the even the Controller-General is afraid of Mrs. Talatu. I was told that her roots penetrate very deep; that she was planted by IBB and that everybody in the system, including the CGC is afraid of Talatu. She draws her power from the forces of darkness that have held this country to its knees since 1960. She is the law. She determines what you pay for what import.

I had to cry to Berekete Family Radio Programme in Love FM - Abuja; originate petitions to “ogas at the top”, etc. for the car to be released with a very huge bil for demurrage. I learnt my lessons and have lived with the trauma unto this day.
Nigeria Customs Service stinks to high heavens. This is the reason I applaud President Buhari for appointing a no-nonsense Colonel Ali into the Customs Service. He needs to use a very big broom to sweep the service very fast. Too many extremely corrupt fat cats to weed out. Too many entrenched interests. Too many vested interests. Too many decades of decay. My experience with the Customs completely destroyed my faith in the ability of our country to ever get better. I hope Ali proves me wrong.

Take heart Brother. The NCS as it operates now is like one big extortion ring. like the Mafia. only they determine what is right. Even if you declare your true value and you pay the correct duties, and it is clearly seen, you Will still have to settle just as if you underpay or under declare otherwise you will be referred to their Valuation or Investigation unit or to the different illegal task force set up for extortion. All in the guise of scrutinized your transaction. This leads to time wasting and high demmurrage which you can't afford. You will be forced with no choice than to settle with them to let your goods go This is quite unlike in the time past where you only negotiate and settle when you have a short payment.

Personally, I am indifferent to Col. Hamid's appointment as CGC. The management team of NCS were lucky that PMB did not appoint a COMPTROLLER or even DEPUTY COMPTROLLER to head the service, They would all have been forced to resign or retire and that would have been a TSUNAMI like shakeup. The rot in the NCS stinks to the skies.
Buhari isn't the first to appoint an outsider to head the NCS, Col. Hamid rtd. wouldn't be the first Soldier to be so appointed. The current BOT chairman of the PDP is a veterinarian Who was appointed as the CG by IBB in 1988 he served till 1994. Gen. Sanni Abacha replaced him with Brigadier (later Major Genaral) Ango who served till 1999. The service did not collapse.
There really is no big deal in Buhari's appointment. Col. Hamid rtd. will direct and oversee the policy thrust and direction of Government while the 6 DCCs will still be in charge of the technical and operational drive of the NCS.

Fashola widely touted to be the SGF, by who? did the President before the appointment of the SGF give an indication as to who he wanted as SGF? Did the President or his agents issued any official statement that a particular person or a particular region would be given the SGF post? The same KITCHEN BLOGGERS (probably sponsored by elements who have no interest of the county at heart but secretly praying that the President fails so that they can give us I TOLD YOU line) that touted Fashola and Onu as possible SGF candidate are the same ones now crying that Fashola and Onu lost out. If Fashola had been given the SGF post, they would have cried that Onu lost out. If he had given Onu the post, they would have cried that Fashola lost out. I like the secrecy and shock that surround the President's appointments.
LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT.
LONG LIVE FRN.

Ya, bring it on, am proudly SW