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Oluwo of iwo is a mad man ,he must be banished from Yorubaland
He is useless to himself ,and to the entire Yorubaland.
GOD BLESS YORUBA KINGDOM

flokii:
Mock us all you can.. when you are done, switch accounts and start preching love with Yorubas. Yeye!

Leave them ,they think we are fools ,i still pity any Yoruba forming aliances with igbos .

The only reason the Hausa Fulani controls Nigeria today is because they have the backing of the ENGLISH GOVERNMENT, Coupled with the Suspension of regional government by an igbo head of state General Ironsi .That is why i advice Yorubas to work with the United States ,if we want to have a Yoruba president in 2023,because we all know fulanis wont give up power in 2023,they are power drunk.2023 Will be war ,and LAGOS IS THE BATTLEGROUND,if fulani refuses to give up power.That is the only way we Yorubas can gain freedom,because whoever takes up the presidency controls the Military and would automatically have the monopoly of violence .Yoruba nation agitators are only making Unnecessary noise ,because dancing on the streets wont give us Yoruba nation because i am very sure they cant defeat the british .Fulani wont give you Yoruba nation ,under their presidency ,they would only arrest and kill you and nothing would happen ,and international community wont interfer.Therefore the only way to get Yoruba nation ,is to work with US government and take the presidency of Nigeria.
GOD BLESS THE COMMONWEALTH OF YORUBA KINGDOM

Guestlander:
Yoruba president or Igbo president cannot solve the problems of Nigeria. Only total separation or total overhaul of the structure will do.
We all know restructuring is out of the question. So, we as Yorubas are left with only one option, to go our separate ways and that is what we will do.
2023 doesn't mean anything anymore.

Who do you think would give you Yoruba nation ? Fulani ,British or who .

The only reason the Hausa Fulani controls Nigeria today is because they have the backing of the ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.And that is why i advice my fellow Yorubas to work with the United States ,if we want to have a Yoruba president in 2023,because we all know fulanis wont give up power in 2023,they are power drunk.2023 Will be war ,and LAGOS IS THE BATTLEGROUND,if fulani refuses to give up power.
GOD BLESS THE COMMONWEALTH OF YORUBA KINGDOM

The only reason the Hausa Fulani controls Nigeria today is because they have the backing of the ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.And that is why i advice my fellow Yorubas to work with the United States ,if we want to have a Yoruba president in 2023,because we all know fulanis wont give up power in 2023,they are power drunk.2023 Will be war ,and LAGOS IS THE BATTLEGROUND,if fulani refuses to give up power.
GOD BLESS THE COMMONWEALTH OF YORUBA KINGDOM

The earlier my fellow Yorubas realize that igbos doesnt love you the better for them .All they are after is to mock you after your downfall.Any Yoruba doing anything with igbo or fulani is going to regret it at the end .Igbo and fulani have been friends since BALEWA/AZIKWE Government in 1959.So forget that trash of igbos telling you they hate fulanis,Igbos and fulanis are allies ,YORUBAS DONT BE FOOLED.

BKayy:
Afonjas how far?

In this life, always use very long spoon while dining with the devil.
When you people where romancing with the Caliphate because you thought they will only wicked Ndigbo you didn't notice that they had eyes on Lagos.
You didn't even know when they took over the control of Lagos and her borders.

Now make una come do protest make we see? You people did not know why they didn't tolerate Endsars and June 12 protest in Lagos. You can do your Yoruba protest in Ekiti, Oyo and Osun with no disturbance but you see in that Fulani land called Lagos I dare you Afonjas.

Anyways, Lagos Bridge is falling down... Falling down... Falling down.. Lagos Bridge is falling down.. my dear Afonjas

Leave us alone ,face your problem .let us face ours .

misano:
Guy just they talk rubbish.

OK

The earlier my fellow Yorubas realize that igbos doesnt love you the better for them .All they are after is to mock you after your downfall.Any Yoruba doing anything with igbo or fulani is going to regret it at the end .Igbo and fulani have been friends since BALEWA/AZIKWE Government in 1959.So forget that trash of igbos telling you they hate fulanis,Igbos and fulanis are allies ,YORUBAS DONT BE FOOLED.

The earlier my fellow Yorubas realize that igbos doesnt love you the better for them .All they are after is to mock you after your downfall.Any Yoruba doing anything with igbo or fulani is going to regret it at the end .Igbo and fulani have been friends since BALEWA/AZIKWE Government in 1959.So forget that trash of igbos telling you they hate fulanis,Igbos and fulanis are allies ,YORUBAS DONT BE FOOLED.

The earlier my fellow Yorubas realize that igbos doesnt love you the better for them .All they are after is to mock you after your downfall.Any Yoruba doing anything with igbo or fulani is going to regret it at the end .Igbo and fulani have been friends since BALEWA/AZIKWE Government in 1959.So forget that trash of igbos telling you they hate fulanis,Igbos and fulanis are allies ,YORUBAS DONT BE FOOLED.

RenaissanceGuy:
You this Igbo boy, you're a perfect definition of a betrayer. You suddenly turned against Kanu calling him a coward immediately he was arrested whereas you'd been hailing him with every fiber of your being. Grow up.

The guy is an idiot ,he is always claming Yoruba ,but all his posts are anti yoruba

EMMY76:
Even if you marry an igbo girl u can't still get that Igbo genes u are craving for she can only give u back what u gave her. The success that follows the average igbo man is deeply divine and spiritual.

Nobody wants a drug trafficking and baby factory genes,dont be too exicited ,he is one your igbo brother who disguses as Yoruba ,but if you doubt me ,Check his post history

IBADAN 2030

IBADAN 2030

Foolish man ,igbos and fulanis must be chased out of Yorubaland

flokii:
The Yorubas of old weren't smart enough for my liking.. if not for Pa Awolowo, believe me the Yoruba race would have been subdued in West by Azikiwe with the help of his Fulani friends in power at the time.

What he wanted then was for Igbo language to be the only language taught in schools across Southern part just like Hausa language was taught in schools across Northern part not minding the fact that Nigeria was formed on a tripod. The Northerners resisted an Igbo VC for ABU, Zaria but alas docile Yorubas allowed Igbo VCs in UNILAG and UI and you call Northerners dull? We in the West are in fact the dull ones and still exhibiting the dull traits till date.

Only a f00l thinks there is anything like Southern unity where some bastards will freely call my ancestral lands no man's land and still blab about it to my face. No please, go your way while I go my own way.

Yes oo, Some bornfools think they can come to my land and declare it a no mans land,I will continue to say that the day we Yoruba people wake up from our slumber will be the day we will chase igbos and fulanis out of our land ,and that will be the beginning of Yoruba liberation.We must expel the two landlocked idiots

Majority of Yorubas will see this post as a joke ,but in reality it made sense ,which only sensible people can comprehend.The high rates of intermarriages in Yorubaland(This is one of the tools the fulanis used to capture the Hausas),Handling majority of top sensitive postions in the society to the half blooded ,to call the shots will make that nation's civilization to be eroded ,The English would never put an half blood as their prime minister same as the chinese ,so why should the Yorubas allow half blooded people to determine their future and that of their children.Do Yorubas even know that top miltary generals ,and police heads in England are full blooded English ,This is not racism but self preservation and it is done to reduce disloyalty ,Same way buhari always appoint his COAS from the north ,because those are his loyalist ,and Yorubas are putting their security in the hands of foreigners ,For example if the Yoruba kingdom appoints a COAS whose father is Yoruba and mother is Fulani ,to lead the Yoruba Army to war against the Fulanis ,What do you think the General will do ,he will sabotage the efforts of the Yorubas because he wouldnt want to decimate his maternal people ,and which is detrimental to Yoruba Kingdom.The half blood are mostly liberal in nature ,and would not surrender his or her full allegiance to that nation ,and would continue to work against the interest of that nation.An example is how the fulanis and half hausa /fulani controls all the emirate councils and most top positions in the Hausaland ,because the Hausas allowed the half blooded hausa to rule them ,and ofcourse their allegiance would be to the Caliphate at Sokoto.My prayer is that more Yoruba Youths wakes up ,to know,and learn the concept of the growing Yoruba nationalism,To be Conservative and to think Yoruba First .
#MAKE YORUBALAND GREAT AGAIN

This is why we Yoruba youths need to play politics to get what we want ,and be in control of the south west government to plan ahead for our future and the future of coming Yoruba generations.As at now ,Yoruba doesnt have any master plan they are following either 25 yrs ,50 yrs or even 100yrs plan .And they say those who FAIL to PLAN ,would surely PLAN to FAIL.It is high time we Yoruba youth get actively involved in politcs with genuine intentions to make Yorubaland Great

OneTemplate:
I have a feeling we will get one or the other in the not too distant future because, contrary to what many assume, Nigeria does not have enough money and cannot create enough wealth to facilitate the required development of the nation without embracing regionalism, as a softer option, or break-up.

For sure, we cannot carry on as things are currently. Staring us in the face is the fact that oil is becoming less valuable daily, meaning we need to diversify the Nigerian economy massively and immediately, yet the parasitic and lopsided federal arrangement, favoring the elite alone, makes it impossible for Nigeria to fully utilize the wealth States can generate if they had autonomy.

States and regions need freedom from being indebted to the regressive centre which, in a modern nation of visionary and selfless leaders, should operate in a supervisory role mainly. What we have now is a very retrogressive and unwieldy centre drawing back the progress most serious Nigerians States and region could be making.

Last last the choice will be be taken out of Nigeria's hands, to the benefit of the SW, when we are bankrupt completely, because of drastically reduced demand for crude in around 10 years.

Then we will have no choice but to embrace diversification, through empowerment of States and region, or die.

But about the diversification of Yorubaland ,What do you think is feasible and can generate foreign exchange into Yorubaland ,apart from oil,ports and Cocoa exports

Ibadanpikin:
Will u keep quit there,Lagos is a no man's land how is all those things u mention yoruba achievement.

Your input is not needed here ,just respect your self and move out

Classicool:
If people in the government is not ready private and capable individuals can come with this only if government is will and ready to make more money. If we can get this to work from private angle I guess government will sit up trust me... though dangote is currying government favor it is because dangote gives anyone in government to surely work for him.. if our state governors can genuinely agree to work with private investors of Yoruba origins and start by patronizing our local innovations at various governments level. If there is a way the we can make this our region work even though federal government might use our tax to develop other regions only if our current governors use this insecurities in the country to make Amotekun formidable.. how I wish Ambode is still governor of lagos state. Dawn commission makes some functional moves then.. but sanwo olu is just a puppet.


P:S Anyone that knows how taxing system works in Nigeria should please explain. To know how FG and States taxes.

We cant develop our region in a large amount ,without controlling our resources first .How will the Yoruba government develop our space without finances ,no way .Except Private investors of Yoruba origin with foreign exchange comes to invest in yorubaland,but how many are they ?
Money are being generated from Yorubaland through
1 Yoruba ports and waterways
2 Yoruba customs
3 Yoruba airports
4 Yoruba oil and gas industries (lagos ,ondo,itshekiri)
5 lagos stock exchange
6 Agricultural exports
these are the monies that are supposed to be used to develop yorubaland ,but we are not in controll of it

sophxx:
jrjfjfj Liberty stadium belong to the then Western Nigeria govt but since the dissolution of regional govt, it's been the property of the FG. Sunday Dare promised he 'll renovate that stadium, we are still. It is only Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba that belong to OYSG in Ibadan and it has been remodeled. Search for the picture, you 'll love it. It's lovely. And also the Olubadan stadium which belong to Ibadan people was set for renovation then but i have no idea if it went down or not.

yes i have seen it ,but the fg wont pump money to renovate it ,since it doesnt benefit them .that is why i say yorubas must control their resources to make yorubaland great

This is so sad for we yorubas.Awolowo must be rolling in his grave ,he would be shocked to see how south west have been derailed ,and ought to have been better .As at 1959 ,Western nigeria was far better than Singapore , But now you cant even compare both again , as at then Western nigeria already got its embassy in Uk ,same embassy nigeria took from us ,and using till date ,same with Abuja house ,acuired by western nigeria for a place of refuge for Yorubas in uk ,A very promising media power ,as the only region with a Tv brocasting station in africa as at 1959, A good educational system with Free universal basic education ,aimed at developing the brain power of the Yorubas ,at the same time developing our human resources ,A good farming settlement system ,which aims at Yorubaland been a food sufficient region.All this were a good headstart to be a regional power ,but some how was truncated and began to derail .To be candid ,The rate of poverty in Yorubaland is alarming ,Most of our young boys and girls are into Yahoo Yahoo ,ritualism and human part dealing , armed robbery ,touts,agbero,drug addict ,smoking hard drugs and Olosho due to poverty and lack of parental care and divorce among Yoruba couples in which poverty is amain cause eg a home where the father is unable to feed his wife and children due to poverty will surely lead to divorce ,which makes the young vulnerable ones to be exposed to all sort of harm and threats turning them to street urchins ,junkies and street beggar and miscreants,Even most of our Youths are not intrested in education anymore ,which was contrary to Awolowos education plan as at the 60s,which was every Yoruba child must be educated ,rich or poor ,every Yoruba child must enjoy free basic education ,then should pass through the secondary and then tetiary,with provision of scholarships and student loan which student begins to pay back ,After he or she has acquired the required qualifications to work ,with no intrest .But it is not what we experience in Yorubaland today.As at today there is no financial and welfare support for Yoruba citizens ,no stident loans,no agricultural loan ,no free and affordable housing benefit ,nothing at all the help common yoruba citizen,so why wont a yoruba youth with no financial backing and parental guidance and care wont result in to crime .The proposed Solution to our problems facing us in Yorubaland is A RETURN TO REGIONAL GOVERNMENT and even at most ODUDUWA REPUBLIC .Ever since Ironsi and Gowon goverments have successively destroyed regionalism ,Yorubaland has been on steady decline .Note this :Yorubaland Will never be great untill ,we the Yorubas are able to control our resources .

The Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, the first to be constructed in Nigeria and Africa in 1960, shot the country into the world boxing fame in 1962 when it hosted the first world boxing title fight in Africa. The bout saw Nigeria’s Dick Tiger beating America’s Gene Fullmer to win the world middleweight boxing title.
The complex was one of the several infrastructure and institutions that the Chief Obafemi Awolowo government established and programmed to take the region, and by extension Nigeria and the Black race to the pinnacle of global emancipation and development.

And from the early 1960s, through the 70s and late 80s, the Liberty Stadium was ‘alive,’ fulfilling Awolowo’s objectives as centre of sports engagement, activity and development in West Africa’s largest city, Ibadan.



That fight between Dick Tiger and Gene Fullmer in 1963 was one of the ways Awolowo used in showcasing Western Nigeria’s emergence as an authentic technological, social, cultural and economic regional power to the rest of the world. It saw Ibadan city welcoming the whole army of agents, managers, the media and the world’s boxing travelling fans who, in their hundreds, followed the train of the best boxing fights around the world then.
However, like many sectors of the nation’s economy, the Liberty Stadium, which stood then as a pride of Africa, has since become an eyesore, with reptiles of various shapes now occupying the edifice.

The complex, which was renamed Obafemi Awolowo Stadium by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2015, needs Federal Government’s intervention as quickly as possible.From the main bowl pitch, the tartan track, to the swimming pool, a first time visitor to the Liberty Stadium will mistake it for an old theatre of war.

The Guardian learnt during a visit to the complex on Monday that a contractor removed the polyurethane on the tartan track in 2014 with a promise to replace it. It was never done.

An official of the Ministry of Youth and Sports told The Guardian that when he assumed duty in 2014, the swimming pool and other facilities within the Liberty Stadium were already in bad shape. “That same year, the contract for the renovation of the swimming pool was awarded to a Lagos-based contractor. But I don’t really know why he couldn’t fix it. The same thing happened to the tartan track. A contractor came from Abuja and removed the old surface with a promise that he was coming to fix it soon. Till today, we did not see the tartan track and the contractor,” he stated.

Former Green Eagles winger, Adegoke Adelabu was one of the regular users of the Liberty stadium in his active days. He told The Guardian that it was the dream of any Nigerian player to play at the complex then. “In our days, it was a dream for anyone to play at the Liberty stadium because the complex was so good that even players from different parts of Africa wanted to visit it.“One great thing about the Liberty Stadium then was that you can beat any visiting team there, and you could also be beaten at home because the pitch was good for everyone to play football. But I don’t know how the complex suddenly became a waste. The government has to do something about it and also generate games to be played at Liberty stadium,” Adelabu stated.

In 1980, the Liberty stadium hosted several matches during the African Cup of Nations, which Nigeria hosted, including a semi-final between Algeria and Egypt. The Liberty Stadium, along eight other stadia hosted the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship. The complex hosted all of the Group C matches, one of the Round of 16 matches, and one of the quarterfinal matches.

Apart from the main bowl, the Liberty Stadium has three football pitches with floodlights. At inception, the complex also boasted the indoor sports hall for boxing, swimming pool, courts for tennis, volleyball, handball, basketball and hockey.Former Green Eagles captain, ‘Mathematical’ Segun Odegbami, played his first international match inside Liberty stadium in 1973 against Central African Republic in preparation for the All Africa Games. The match was played under floodlights.

According to Odegbami, Western Nigeria became the focus of the world’s major media many months after the Liberty stadium hosted the Dick Tiger versus Gene Fulmer fight. “It was unprecedented advertisement for the people as one of the fastest and most ambitious developing regions in West Africa,” he said. “Liberty Stadium was a great showpiece because its architecture was unique. Some of its facilities were world-class and it was a local tourist attraction for visitors because its sports facilities engaged the teeming youths from schools and sports clubs, and produced national champions in many sports.”

How the decay started
Chief Segun Odegbami revealed that when the Federal Government picked Liberty stadium for renovation ahead the proposed 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship, the engineers in an Israeli firm that was contracted to do the job lamented that what they met on ground in the complex was far ahead of whatever they had brought to ‘improve’ the stadium.

“They admitted that the drainage system underneath the stadium pitch was better than the untested ‘Cell’ underground watering system they had brought and wondered why Nigerian sports administrators in charge were insisting they should go ahead with the excavation and demolition when they advised against it.

“In ‘renovating’ the stadium, the Israelis completely destroyed it. Since that ill-informed deliberate destructive act, the Stadium has remained prostate, its painted walls a shell and a constant and painful reminder of what was once one of the best in the world,” Odegbami stated.In the 80s, the Liberty stadium was a ‘Mecca’. “People came on excursions for a tour of the facilities,” Odegbami said. “They would wait and watch the well-choreographed watering system of the turf that took place three times every day throughout the year.

“Thousands of spectators came daily to watch the training sessions of star athletes on the facilities – the great Shooting Stars FC on the lush green football training field, track and field, cricket, volleyball, badminton, basketball and table tennis athletes many of whom were representing Nigeria at the time.

“The youths from all over the state came in droves, mornings and evenings, to ‘drink’ lavishly and freely from the well of inspiration of the known star athletes training daily at the stadium.”Odegbami added: “The stadium had excellent functional floodlights. Many of the international matches Shooting Stars played at the time, mostly against football clubs from Germany, England and even Brazil, were played at night.”

“I am sure if Chief Awolowo should wake up from his place of eternal rest and see what has become of the Western Region of Nigeria, one of the places that would make him wail the loudest would be the Liberty Stadium. “He would wonder how a people he left, sophisticated, enlightened and largely educated, with respect for values and a way of life that set them apart from the rest, would destroy one of their greatest legacies on the altar of personal interests, materialism, bad conduct and poor political judgments. Even in the 1950s, Chief Awolowo had understood the immense power of sport in national development. In 1971, I still met the structures, facilities, and personnel running the sports agenda of Chief Awolowo and his immediate successors. It was a visionary script for the development of Western Nigeria with sports as a major contributor,” Odegbami stated.

For years, many Nigerian athletes, including the likes of Innocent Egbunike, Chidi Imoh, Olapade Adenikan, the Ezinwa brothers (Davidson and Osmond), Sunday Bada, Chioma Ajunwa, Mary Onyali, Falilat Ogunkoya, Fatima Yusuf, Tina Iheagwam, Faith Idehen, Beatrice Utondu, Mary Tombiri and Christy Okpara-Thompson used Liberty stadium tartan track to prepare for international competitions. Today, the tartan track is like a ‘run way’ for airplanes. There is nothing covering the hard surface for athletes to carry out their track and field business.

In the build up to Cairo ‘91’ All African Games, the hostel at the Liberty Stadium was used as campsite for the swimmers including the likes of Mrs. Ngozi Chris Momah. Like other parts of the complex, the stadium hostel is in serious decay. Apart from being overshadowed by weeds, including cassava farm around it, all facilities inside the hostel are either vandalised or damaged. The dinning hall, bathroom and toilet facilities are no go areas.

The swimming pool itself is a complete disaster. In the old good days of Nigerian sports, the swimming pool at the Liberty Stadium was one of the best in Africa. It is an Olympics size swimming pool. But poor maintenance culture, which has eaten deep into the fabrics of Nigerian sports facilities, is taking its toe on the Liberty stadium swimming pool.

Today, thick bushes have taken over the swimming pool, with athletes, who use the facilities, saying they often see snakes and other reptiles coming out of the water.The roof of the spectators’ stand of the swimming pool and the stairs have fallen off, while the tiles covering the pavement have peeled off with grass taking over more than 80 per cent of the surface.