₦airaland Forum

Welcome back to commonsense Mr. Senator

I'm interested in the service

Honourable Lalasticlala, are we game?

Awa legislooters have become women; they pad everything.

freeze001:
What do u mean by sense of respect? For whom? Do the Igbos even recognise your existence in the first place? What do u regard as culture? Can you even readily identify the distinct differences between the Igbos and Ijaws that u feel one lacks culture compared to the other? This is what the op is trying to talk about: tolerance and objectivity! That your culture is different from others does not give u the audacity to insult others and claim they have no culture or respect. Their way of life is different from yours so u better appreciate the Igbos for whom they are or shut the hell up! Your puny opinion will not make them change whom they are. Make ur preferences but let it be for more objective and reasoned grounds than what u just stated here.

You're right bro but it goes both ways. Igbos should think the same way too. Peace unto you.

Seun Lalasticlala Obinoscopy Mogidi Firefire

Yeah! You're right. Some are career tribalists only out to promote tribalism with the intention to stoke ethnic tension. I would suggest Nairaland start taking note of such monickers and ban not just the monickers but their IP address permanently.

Op the truth of the matter is that the real tribal bigots are few and far flung while those I categorise as career bigots are many. Career bigots are those paid to stoke ethnic tensions especially online. These are always online spewing trash, dishing out revisioned, doctored history to back up their jaundiced positions.

Meanwhile in real life, you won't see any Yoruba slapping any Igbo on the street likewise you won't see any Igbo yelling at any Yoruba because of his tribe.

My take? Most of those you see online are either sponsored, paid, misguided or all of the above pit in one. The pathetic side of it is that while they waste away their time to establish who the traitor, chest-beater etc is, their politicians have field day cornering our wealth.

I weep for this nation. I'm a Nigerian and a Nigerian I am. This is above any tribe.

The big El again!

What that El is wrong with his action? I love the El, a strict, performing governor with moderate view about both tribe and religion.

BUT WAIT! Sontin tells me this has sontin to do with 2019.

Bleep that sontin, good thing is good thing. The big El is a bridge builder.

Ogun State again! Na wa o. We lead others follow in the Gateway State.

Good

Way to go

Na so dem come my area on Tuesday in Ewedogbon shooting sporadically at anything and everything. Death to the militants. scAvengers are next in line to feel it.

mazichika:
Even Awolowo in his grave can't deny this.
Last week,a prominent northerner (name forgotten)echoed how Awolowo betrayed Igbos.After promising to secede if Biafra secede,he went back and connived with northern soldiers to fight igbos!

I don't care if you believe it or not,but the history book is there for you to read.

How could Awolowo that was in prison when both the first and second coups were hatched have make that promise? Kwontunu. There's kod.

A little history would help here.

Awolowo was Premier of the Western Region (equivalent of modern state governor) prior to independence. He quitted at the eve of independence to contest to be the Prime Minister. He contested and won one of the sits in the Federal Parliament allotted to Western Region. His ambition of becoming the Prime Minister ended because his party couldn't win the required number of seats to form government and both Zik's party and Amadu Bello's entered alliance to form government.

He became the opposition leader in the federal parliament. Before long, he started having issues with Chief Ladoke Akintola who succeeded him as the Premier. Later, he was charged and sentenced to 10years in prison for treason around 1962-64 (I can't remember the year clearly). He was serving his term in either Calabar or PH when the January coup took place. Then came the July coup and he was still in prison.

He was released from prison during the war and Gowon drafted him to the FG because his wealth of experience was needed.

Now the questions are:
1. Could someone in prison have made such promise?
2. If he did, on what basis and in which capacity? (Remember her wasn't in the control of Western Regional Government again and he wasn't a soldier.

We need independent verifications of what we are fed. Most of what you have these days are revisited, reviewed and doctored stories fed to us as history with the aim to cause confusions and create tensions. My take is that the politicians are heavily funding these tribal altercations going on online.

Since it is Saharareporters you can bet it is true. Those guys Ehen!

*takes stool to sit down. Abegi kamoru gimme 'shilled' horigin.* This is a very interesting thread and I must commend Anabell2 for job well done.

Tiri gbosa to you

Link or idonbilivit. Anyway, I commend the present crops of officials in the executive led by PMB. Since when did the NASS become women using 'pads' everywhere. Even inside our budget of CHANGE? Koni da fun yin. Anu ofia.

So the "Lagos Community" no get name again abi? Kontunu.

I will prefer you write your names in full and not initials except you want people that get brain and can think to assume this is deliberate smear campaigns against the personality of Joe Igbokwe.

OK, pacification mode on point.

NwaEzefuNaMba:
Josiah Ikemefuna Godwin

OK. I will search you bro. Remain blessed and be positive. Better, greater, strong, united Nigeria I foresee with people like you.

These idiots cannot drag us into their wahala.

NwaEzefuNaMba:
We have political thugs and miscreants in south East, same way they are in south west! That does not mean their opinion represent that of the whole Igbos.

I like people like you. We can build imaginary bridges across the Niger. Search for me on Facebook: Olatoye Jibola Bismarck.

Mikehell:
Hope the invitation comes with ur flight ticket, hotel reservation etc paid by your host cuz the country is broke unless u want to finance the trip urself.....

Nice one. Seconded. Who's with us here?

DropShot:
Let no one come here to talk about tribe, name checking or any of those bull crap.

Please enough of tribal and religion bigotry here.

Yes because these looters unite to embezzle our money and use these things you listed out there to divide us the masses to cover up their evil act. Dasuki's ATM didn't recognise tribe and was also relious-blind. It distributed across board our hard-earned resources. Amadioha, Shango, Ogun kill them all.

*in wailing mode* wee wee nor gree! Wee wee nor gree!! Wee wee nor gree!!!

Going going Ewuremadu

OK na. But seriously, Obj is a force to reckon with in Nigeria. Forget what he said, his visit might not be unconnected with the recent revelation by (dis)honourable AbdulMumuni against the leadership of the house.

Let me wait here for some people to start crying "our land has been destroyed without corresponding development". The governors get the fund and loot them while the misinformed citizens attack FG.

TellingItAsItIs:
Looking like a confused transgender with the signature oblong Yoruba head.

Get brain small na or borrow if you no get. Fathia isn't Yoruba.

There are some things that must be cleared here.
The thread started by stating that:
NRI was a Kingdom
Oyo was an Empire
NRI is older than Oyo

Somewhere along the line, some people have deviated from the course of discussion maybe out of sheer ignorance or deliberate attempt to cause confusion.

We need to read up on these technical terms:

Kingdom
Empire
Dynasty

As a historian I'm well aware that before an entity becomes an empire it has to pass through kingdom. So, empire, in other word, is an agglomeration of Kingdoms. It is always very very heterogeneous and doesn't get king as the head but an emperor.

Kingdom on the other hand has a king as the head and is almost always homogenous. It takes years, if not centuries, for a kingdom to graduate to an empire.

Dynasty is the bloodline of rulers. If the headship of an entity remains within a bloodline for long, this is a dynasty. It could be son succeeding father or brother succeeding brother or even daughter succeeding father or brother. When another bloodline takes over the headship another dynasty has just been installed. Sayfawa Dynasty of Kanem-Bornu is the longest dynasty in the world

Back to the topic, Nri kingdom, based on the dates provided by this OP, is older than Oyo Empire and not Oyo Kingdom. Oyo was a kingdom for long before it became an empire and later came back to kingdom. Oyo was an offshoot of Ife Kingdom but later grew to become empire that enveloped Ife herself and all the other neighbouring kingdoms, fiefdoms, city-states etc.

That stated, one unique thing I found very interesting about Nri kingdom is its ability to command obedience without force. It was a kind of theocratic state; no standing army, yet, no one disrespected its authority.

Mogidi and Lalasticlala should move this to the FP for Nigerians to learn important aspects of our history.