velocity25:
For those shouting that the list is dominated by Yoruba please educate me, how many Yoruba are there pls?

4 Yoruba, 2 Igbo, one northerner

freshvine:


Those banks are yoruba owned. Has nothing to do with merit.

GT Bank is also Yoruba owned but the CEO is Miriam Chidiebere Olusanya.

The CEO of GT Bank is an Igbo woman that married Yoruba

Prosperchuks1344:


Una too dey yarn rubbish...
So other regions never valued education before...

If not for Lagos giving you guys the upper hand in things like this, y'all are nothing compared to those in SE and SS...

Cry

You right now

SUFFERInSMILIIN:


This is why I said that most Yoruba people are illiterate. You have a governor and a traditional ruler surrendering their rights to the fulanis. Now the bronze statue is now a property of the fulani caliphate in Abuja. Southern Nigerians believe they are clever but they are bloody illiterate. First we surrendered are oil to them we surrendered land to them now we are taking our artefacts from the white people and giving the fulanis.

Benin people are not Yoruba get your fact right

These Yankees acting like there are no psychos in USA that can boldly walk into an embassy and open fire on everyone just for a flimsy excuse, but yeah let's use Nigeria to stroke our delusional ego

Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya make Nigeria look like a lawful country but this is what Fulani terrorists from Futa Jallon want to turn Nigeria to, a killing field full of lawless savages and barbarians

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You Mean this ?



Can someone please help some of us to translate this to English.

We know Oluwa means God/Jesus.

Is Oluwaburna the same thing as God is Burna?
Or that one just dey call himself anything,
Cos nothing wey all dis celebritiesno fit do?

Someone should help us with the below, biko.....

It should be "Oluwapamilerinayo" which means "God has made me laugh the laughter of Joy" in English

pseudaria:


This your statement is meaningless cos if you properly read the article you would find out he was appointed by the minister of Justice and solicitor general KAYCEE MADU

He was nominated and recommended by a committee that thoroughly examined and interviewed him before nominating him?

Or what are you talking about? Abi you mean Your Igbo brother should had rejected him because of the chronic hatred and bitterness you have for Yoruba?

kudinkarfe:
X
The fact that you've seen some almajiris beggin doesn't mean the whole north is hungry. I believed you have never been to the north.

Yeah it doesn't mean the whole north is hungry but it just means you have the most people in hunger and poverty

kudinkarfe:

For you mind northerners are suffering in the zoo. While, for your information we are not suffering but we only give you that impression y'all believed it. That is our modus operandi to chop your oil money. Northerners doesn't show off that is why you believe the game. You get the education we get the wisdom

Keep deceiving yourself cretin

Like we don't see the beggars and Alimajiri all over Nigeria

kudinkarfe:

Quota system ki u there. Your generation will remain slave to quota system as long as you remained in the zoo.

But your own generation will always be the one that is suffering the most in the zoo

Highest poverty rate in Nigeria is in the North with beggars in every nook and cranny of Nigeria not to even talk about how terrorists and bandits kidnap and slaughter you like rams everyday.

castrol180:
The snake skin founded around where it was killed which confirms the fact that the snake has been long staying where it was seen and eventually killed

*"The snake skin was found"

You are disgracing UNILAG with your grammar

Nice move

DoggoneDogg:


What exactly is that screenshot supposed to show??

I'm lost.

Obvious Pathetic attempt at denial

So you still can't read?

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2006/11/new_article_where_the_bombs_ar/

DoggoneDogg:


Lol. You are the ignorant & naive one here with limited knowledge forming don.

US military bases do not have nuclear weapons. The nukes will have to be shipped over there first which means they have lost the element of surprise.

Russia doesn't need military bases, they have nuclear submarines prowling every water body in the world as we speak.

Learn, boy.

This just prove you are truly ignorant, you obviously don't have much knowledge of USA military and world militaries

You lack knowledge boy you are the one that need to go and learn, check this screenshot

Mixedfraction:

I stand to be corrected though but I think US is more scared of china than it is with Russia.. correct me if I'm wrong..

The USA is more scare of China because of economy, only China is capable and close to dethroning USA as the country with the strongest and largest economy in the world

DoggoneDogg:


Which is why their strike will be swift and decisive.
US will be reduced to rubble in seconds before their Congress even reads the motion.

You are ignorant and naive

USA have military bases around the world with nuclear capability and apart from that I am sure some of USA nuclear weapons are capable of counterattacking even if USA got nuked

Emmypure:

Why is Yoruba not taking it in other region, abi una no dey school there ?

What should we be looking for in other regions when we have the best higher institutions in our region?

Only intellectually average Yoruba school in other regions and they are few, our best brains school in our region and Yoruba broke many records in foreign universities where it matter.

emmabest2000:
Ibrahim Hausa
Adedeji Yoruba

Mix blood

Congratulations though

Who told you Ibrahim is an Hausa name?

Ibrahim is a Muslim name not Hausa and many Muslim Yoruba guys bear the name in South west

Buhari is very good in psychological warfare, he want to convince us that he is not a jihadist from Futa Jallon

THE ALTERNATIVE BY Reno Omokri

There are many myths circulated by various ethnic nationalities about the Yoruba people of the Southwest, and a personal experience with a non-Yoruba provoked me to address some of these myths using historical facts. Please bear with me, this is a long read.


Myth one: The Yoruba are betrayer

A lot of this angst, which has refused to fade away decades after the dramatis personae exited this world, is centred around a supposed betrayal of Emeka Ojukwu and the Igbo by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

And sadly, this has now become an emotive issue, where fiction has been fed to many young people as fact.

The truth is that Chief Awolowo went on a peace meeting to Enugu, to try to persuade Igbo leaders to adopt a peaceful way out of the crisis that had unfolded in Nigeria after the January 15, 1966 coup and the July 29, 1966 counter coup.


Awolowo met with the leaders of the Eastern Region for two days from May 6-7, 1967. THERE IS A TRANSCRIPT OF THAT MEETING, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED WHEN BOTH AWOLOWO AND OJUKWU WERE ALIVE.

Please note that this transcript was taken from a tape recorded by then Colonel Ojukwu’s own recorder.

I encourage those who are still bitterly accusing Chief Awolowo, and by extension all Yoruba, of betrayal, to please read that transcript.


At the time, Emeka Ojukwu wanted Chief Awolowo to follow his lead by announcing the secession of the Western Region after his own declaration of secession of the Southeast, there were tens of thousands of armed Northern troops all over the West. It does not take a genius to guess what would have happened if Awolowo had gone that route.

Moreover, unlike Ojukwu, Chief Awolowo had no control over any troops. He was also not the Governor of the Western Region (Adeyinka Adebayo was then the military Governor). As a result, he had no executive powers. Whatever powers he had were at best residual and persuasive.


Chief Awolowo had earlier called a meeting of Yoruba officers of the Nigerian army, and key officers of Yoruba stock refused to attend, with one of them sending a message to him that he was a Nigerian soldier, not a Yoruba soldier.

So given all of that, it was rather naive for anybody to have expected him to declare the secession of the Western Region from Nigeria.

It would have been like expecting Nnamdi Azikiwe to usurp Ojukwu’s powers as Governor of the Eastern Region, and announce the secession of Eastern Nigeria, and the creation of a new Biafran nation. The Ojukwu we know may have even arrested, and probably executed Zik if he had done that.


If the grudge against Chief Awolowo is founded on the £20 pounds payment to persons of Igbo origin, then I can understand it. But even that grudge is also not well founded. Because the £20 policy only affected those whose bank records could not be verified. I hazard a guess that if another person other than Awolowo was on that seat, the payment may have been £0.

But to hold a grudge against the Yoruba stemming from that Enugu meeting is in my view an injustice to a man who only went there to seek a way to avoid bloodletting.


In any case, have those who hold this view ever considered that the man, Emeka Ojukwu, for whom they hold this torch, after his return to Nigeria on May 18, 1982, joined the National Party of Nigeria, the very same party that was peopled, sponsored and supported by the very same people who prosecuted the Nigerian Civil War against him and Eastern Nigeria?

The NPN was a Northern Party that did not win a single state in Western, Midwestern (Bendel) and the Igbo states of Eastern Nigeria. The same people who founded the NPN were the very same people who advised and perhaps tele-guided Gowon.

In fact, the first National Leader of the NPN was Makaman Bida, a former member of the inner caucus of Ahmadu Bello’s Northern Peoples Congress.

This is the party that Ojukwu joined, contested for election into the Senate (and lost), and campaigned for during the 1983 Presidential election.

Taking all of this into consideration, there is no way the myth of Chief Awolowo, and all Yoruba being betrayers, can stand.

Myth two: The Yoruba Are Cowards

The late Sani Abacha was the most brutal dictator in Nigeria’s history. I do not need to elaborate. His rule was a dark era in our history, and the nationwide spontaneous celebration of his death is enough shame on his memory and his family and survivors.

Having said that, Nigerians may want to recall that a certain Moshood Kashimawo Abiola stood up to the bully that was Abacha, and rightfully declared himself President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on June 11, 1994.

That took guts! That was not the act of a coward. It was a display of bravery.

Chief Abiola was arrested on June 23, 1994, and taken to Abuja. While there, he met with General Abacha, and told Abacha to his face that he was Abacha’s boss and Abacha should show him respect. That is more than guts. That is what is called Command Presence in the military. Audacity if you will.

On August 5, 1994, Chief Abiola was offered freedom, via a bail, with certain conditions, including that he “stay away from politics”. Abiola’s response was terse. It was given by his wife, Kudirat Abiola, who said “Chief Abiola is not interested.”

That is bravery to the point of self-sacrifice. Bear in mind that this was a multimillionaire in US dollars, with access to private jets, and all the modern conveniences money could buy, yet he inconvenienced himself by refusing to betray his mandate.

And after Abacha died (I never call him General. It is an insult to call the world’s biggest political thief, who is still coughing up billions 23 years after his death, a General of the Nigerian Army), Chief Abiola refused to give up his mandate, and probably died because of his principled stand.


It is therefore ridiculous for anybody to call an ethnic nationality that produced such a personality cowards.

And this is not a recent phenomenon. Whereas the Fulani jihadist army completely defeated the Hausa, they could not defeat the Yoruba. A Yoruba regiment from present-day Ibadan, and led by Balogun Oderinlo, routed the Fulani army and drove them out of Oshogbo in 1840, and eventually from Yoruba land. In the process, they captured four Fulani Generals.

The popular case of Ilorin was not a military defeat, it was a case of over ambition by a rogue Yoruba, Afonja. And it was isolated to the Ilorin area. I just hope history will not repeat itself in Lagos.

During the Nigerian Civil War, Murtala Mohammed was an unmitigated military disaster. The Biafrans defeated him soundly at Abagana and almost captured him. If not for the Yoruba-led Third Marine Commando, Nigeria would not have defeated Biafra at the time it did.

In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.

In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood-thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that ‘Abacha did not loot’, you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenhagen.

He was informed by the then US Ambassador, Walter Carrington, that Abacha meant to arrest, try and execute him, and was offered political asylum in the United States.

He returned to face almost certain death.

What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.

Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the then Head of State, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do.

The Yoruba are a very tactful and diplomatic people. These are attributes that some people mistake for cowardice, or sycophancy. They are a people who understand how to stoop to conquer.

This is what Scripture meant in 2 Corinthians 10:4 “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty”. Wisdom, courtesy, diplomacy, and praise are all weapons. A weapon is anything you can use to achieve your strategic objective. It does not always have to be a physically offensive weapon.

Myth three: The Yoruba are Clannish, They Form Cliques Against Non-Yoruba

The most metropolitan place in Nigeria is the Southwest. The reason being that no other ethnicity is as religiously tolerant and ethnically accommodating as the Yoruba.

And I am very glad that by sheer coincidence, former President Jonathan said as much last week. I had nothing to do with him saying it.

The most prosperous place for an Igbo man in Nigeria is not Nnewi or Onitsa. According to Robert Neuwirth, an American journalists and investigator, the Igbo make $4 billion each year from Alaba International Market. There is nowhere else in Nigeria where they generate such a high turnover.

The richest Black man on planet Earth is Aliko Dangote, and his wealth largely comes from Lagos and the Southwest, where he has assets in excess of $4 billion.

The fact that other Nigerians can come to the Southwest and prosper there more than they prospered in their home regions speaks volumes of the accommodativeness of the Yoruba.

How many Igbo Alaba traders have been kidnapped, abducted or killed? But they are kidnapped, abducted and killed in the Southeast.

Terrorists, bandits and Boko Haram have never targeted Aliko Dangote in the Southwest. But in the North, both billionaire and almajiri are vulnerable.

People erroneously think that the Yoruba are clannish, because they maintain and retain their cultural values, when it clashes with other cultures.

So, in an office environment, a Yoruba person is likely to clique with Yoruba speakers. Notice I did not say they are likely to clique with the Yoruba. I said they are likely to clique with Yoruba speakers. It is their culture they like. If you flow with their culture, they will also flow with you.

That is why the Yoruba have the highest number of elected non-indigenes representing their states, than any other region.

There are natives of the Southeast and South South who won election to represent various Lagos constituencies in the House of Representatives. Oghene Egoh, Rita Orji and Tony Nwoolu are some of them.

Where else is that happening in Nigeria?

Yoruba-phobes should try to understand that the tendency of the Yoruba to retain their full culture within Nigeria and when they travel abroad is not clannishness. It is in their blood.
How do I know this? Because I am an avid traveller.

During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, slaves were taken from almost every Black African ethnic group. However, only the Yoruba slaves retained their culture on a large scale throughout the Americas (the Umbundo also retained some of their culture, but they are limited to Brazil).

In the Brazilian state of Bahia, they speak a patois of Portuguese and Yoruba. The state is 80% Black and they bear Yoruba names. As a matter of fact, after Nigeria, Brazil has the second-largest population of people of Yoruba descent. Please fact check me. I deal in facts, not speculation.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, there are an estimated 50 million believers in the Santeria religion. It may shock you to note that Santeria is based on Yoruba traditional worship. In fact, the name for god in Santeria is Orisha, a Yoruba word. Eshu, Sango, and Ifa feature prominently in Santeria.

So, you can see how deep Yoruba culture is, to the extent that even centuries of slavery could not wipe it away.

Go to Jamaica and there are Yoruba there.

There were Hausa, Swahili, Bantu, Oromo, Igbo and other Black African slaves taken to the Americas. None have kept their cultural identity like the Yoruba slaves.

Listen to Rap music and compare it to Fuji and Juju. You notice the same trend. Boasting, women shaking their booties, rivals dissing their opponents. Before Tupac and Biggie dissed each other, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister and Ayinla Kollington had released their own diss tracks.

When you visit London, you may be confused if you think Yoruba is the only African language in existence.

A Yoruba man can enter a quiet bus and receive a phone call and speak in Yoruba, and won’t feel embarrassed. And I am not referring to a Johnny Just Come. I am referring to second-generation Yoruba, who were born and brought up in England,

I have been travelling the world from childhood, yet I have not encountered people doing that with much wider spoken African languages, such as Swahili and Hausa.

They may speak it privately in their homes abroad. but not publicly, and even if they do, it is not to the extent of the Yoruba.

It has gotten to the extent that the Metropolitan Police now recruit Yoruba-speaking Constables, and Harrods now employ Yoruba-speaking cashiers. Oh please do not just take my words at face value. Fact check me.

Go to Houston on a Sunday, you will see Yoruba people everywhere in their native wears, adire, plus abeti aja and eleti aja.

Here in California, other Africans now draw crowd to their parties by saying ‘the Nigerians will be there.’

This will annoy other tribes, including mine, however, when foreigners talk about how cool Nigerians are, they are usually referring to the Yoruba.

Take it or leave it, but the Yoruba are the most progressive Black people on the face of planet Earth.

They produced the first Black African Nobel laureate for an academic category (Wole Soyinka), and the first Black African military ruler to have voluntarily handed over to a civilian President (Olusegun Obasanjo), and the first Nigerian to win a Grammy Award (Sade Adu) as well as the first person born and bred in Africa to have won a Pulitzer Prize (Dele Olojede).

The reason why the Yoruba are the biggest music stars of Nigerian origin is because they are unabashedly Yoruba. They do not try to sing or act like Westerners. They are very in-your-face with their Yoruba-ness. And when people like themselves to such a high degree, others tend to join them in liking them.

There are an estimated 15 Black billionaires on Planet Earth. Three of them are Yoruba. More than any ethnic nationality in Africa. It used to be four, but one of them slipped down the rankings.

US President, Joe Biden, named a Yoruba man, Adewale Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury Secretary. This is the highest position to which a Black African has been appointed (not elected) in US history. Another Yoruba man, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, became the first person on Earth to successfully perform a surgery by taking out an unborn fetus from its mother’s womb and putting it back after the surgery.

77% of all Black doctors in America, and a very large percentage of these are Yoruba.
I commend the Edekiri people (the real name of the Yoruba). They are neither betrayers, nor cowards nor clannish people. They are omoluabi. They are oni te si iwaju


www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/07/04/destroying-age-old-myths-about-the-yoruba/amp/


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EmekaA125:

Ogbeni calm down. Awka has 2 LGAs and I clearly spelt out where it's no match to Ibadan which is in landmass but you see modern structures with beautiful scenery, Awka beats Ib hands down. Estates, GRAs and Layouts in Ib constitute about 2% of the entire city size while greater parts of Ibadan are submerged in rusted brown roof old building mostly handed to the owners by their great grand fathers.

See the brown roofs in the Google satellites images your fellow Nyamirin is brandishing as Build up

Only 2% of Ib is developed according to IPOB bureau of statistics, typical IPOB youth

post=103231126:


Onitsha

Look at the brown roofs all over the skylines

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Ogbaru another town, mapped out for industries

Are those not brown roofs in all the skylines?

You are exposing yourself and you don't even know

Typical retard

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Nkpor another town after Onitsha

Are those not brown roofs in all the maps and Google satellites images you are showing?

All the skylines in your map are brown and you are dissing Ibadan, you are clearly exposing yourself and you don't even know lol

imaxdocuments:


Government of Oyo state should demolish Ibadan, this is an embarrassment in the 21st century

And the east need to be Nuke out from existence from being so economically useless

This is enugu I thought you guys have no brown roofs in the east.

post=103224511:

You are really dumbo to say Ibadan is big as Anambra, Lagos state is almost twice the size of Anambra not minding that Lagos is largely surrounded by Lagoon, Ibadan is 96% covered by slum according to UN habitat

Anambra state

You are the Dumbo here

Ibadan is almost as big as Anambra and more developed than the whole igbo land

96% covered by slum according to IPOB bureau of statistics

Everyone in the East lives in Big mansions that's why you all can't wait to evacuate from that wretched region to become economic refugees elsewhere.

imaxdocuments:
Abeg go hide, stop embarrassing yourself

Everyone in the east lives in mansions that's why you all can't wait to become economic refugees elsewhere, you are the retard that need to go and hide

imaxdocuments:


What you are showing is .0001% of Ibadan, over 95% of Ibadan is covered in mud houses and rustic brown roofs. You are even pasting pictures of university of Ibadan

So university of Ibadan is not part of Ibadan according to you retard?

And what you are showing is 95% of Awka lol according to IPOB bureau of statistics?

I thought you said only brown roofs are in Ibadan? No modern buildings, No mansions, No bungalows, No real estates just mud houses and brown roofs?


Everyone in the east lives in Big mansions and are billionaires that's why you all can't wait to leave that wretched region to become economic refugees elsewhere.

imaxdocuments:


What's the standard of living in this jungle of mud houses and rustic brown roofs called Ibadan?

Pictures proves that Ibadan residents are still in 1500 AD while the residents of Awka are in the 21st century

These are also Pictures of Ibadan

Ibadan is as big as Anambra state, you don't really believe Ibadan have only brown roofs lol?

Exactly what I expected from a Yoruba man