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@Onlytruth

You can drop your weapon now, the war ended some 42 odd years ago, in fact it will be difficult to remind your Generalissimo that he was engaged in a war with Nigeria, he is a fully integrated Nigerian now.

I think the problem with people like Onlytruth was they were never ever fully de-commissioned and rehabilitated into mainstream Nigeria hence he think in his warp mind that the Biafran troops can still hold own to Nnewi not knowing Nnewi fell some 42 years ago.

I blame Gowon for the mal-administrative error and the oversight for not fully integrating these remnant but loyal troops into the Nigeria Army.

You u might be due a medal for your forthrightness in pursuing your goal to the very end even though your Generalissimo who has since moved on,  running as a Presidential candidate in the Nigeria state he once abhorred does not share your views anymore.

He Ojukwu is not only laughing all the way to the bank having sponsored a sitting Governor, he is for now a contented man.

[size=14pt]Rivers Plans 20,000 Houses Yearly in Port Harcourt[/size]


Amechi has being there 2 and 1/2 years now,  has he built 50, 000 houses ?  just a simple question.

since Sierra Leone was a base for freed slaves, a lot of tribes met up there.

However, the Yoruba ones seemed particularly vocal active- I have no idea why.


The Yoruba Culture is as superior to any western culture, the reationship between the 2 cultures are not subservant in nature but rather complimentary. Unike many other African cultures that are inferior to the Western culture the Yorubas are at par with the west when it came to culture, taste, food, arts, language lexicology and proverbs and fashion.

Pray tell, how did Obasanjo (a Yoruba) lead Nigeria for 8 years?
Was he better than Yaradua?
Why did he appoint Yaradua to the position?


OBJ is just a Arrow, he appointed Yardua as President only to turn around and start critising him, when he had a young vibrant EFCC Chairman who he could appoint, but his thinking was Yardua na odenson or mugu, now he reaise he is the mugu as maga don pay now.

british agent b/w the yorubas moslem and seirra leone from virgin island who claimed to be decendant of igbos

i think we already know



Claim to be Igbo yet cannot remember his family name, good try Michelle Obama is also Igbo.

Energy and Water Resources
Prof. Ogunlade Davidson (Just two weeks ago was approved to be Chairman of Sierra Leone Environmental & Protection Agency. He has served on a prestigious Nobel-winning UN Panel of Experts) - Yoruba


Just like our Prof Soyinka, Prof Ogunlade was a prestigious Nobel Winner, I think winning that Nobel thing is in our DNA.

The Yoruba's in Seirra Leons dominated the Politics of Colonial Seirra Leone.

at present there is only one in the cabinet of the current president of Seirra Leone see list below.



MINISTERS:

Finance and Economic Development:
Dr. Samura Kamara (Currently the Bank Governor)

Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation:
Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura

Attorney-General and Minister of Justice
Mr. Abdul Serry-Kamal

Information and Communications
Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo


Mineral Resources
Alhaji Alpha Saahid Bakarr Kanu (former Presidential Affairs)



Health and Sanitation
Mr. Sheku Tejan Koroma (former Deputy Health Minister)


Agriculture, Food Security & Forestry
Dr. Sam Sesay



Presidential and Public Affairs
Mr. Joseph Koroma (formerly of UNIDO)



Works, Housing and Infrastructure
Mr. Alimamy P. Koroma (former Trade Minister)

Lands, Country Planning and the Environment
Dr. Dennis Sandi

Defence
Major Rtd. Alfred Palo Conteh

Internal Affairs, Local Government and Rural Development






Energy and Water Resources
Prof. Ogunlade Davidson (Just two weeks ago was approved to be Chairman of Sierra Leone Environmental & Protection Agency. He has served on a prestigious Nobel-winning UN Panel of Experts) - Yoruba



Tourism and Cultural Affairs
Mr. Hindolo Sumanguru Trye

Social Welfare, Gender and Childrens' Affairs
Dr. Soccoh Kabia (former Health Minister)

Education, Youth & Sports
Dr. Minkailu Bah



Employment and Social Security
Mr. Minkailu Mansaray



Trade and Industry
Mr. David Carew (former Finance Minister) - might be Yoruba dont know but definately a krio

lol @ No wonder Africa is messed up


Give Kudos to a super Black Race instead of just running your foul mouth.

http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?ISBN=9780521365154

H. C. Bankole-Bright and Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone, 1919–1958

Bankole Bright a christain Yoruba wrote the Politics in Colonial Sierra Leone 1919 -1958

Is this a yoruba tribe found in Sierra Leone or Muslim Yoruba tribe?. Are you suggesting that only muslim yorubas emigrated to Sierra leone?. Islam is a religious identity and I don't know why you are attaching it to that tribe by all means because i am sure not all of them are muslims and the islam they accepted after moving to Sierra leone. So, they are not muslim yorubas, rather, they are Yorubas.



They are unique that is why I use the term Yoruba musims, if u read the artice attached to this post u will see that they were freed slaves caught on the high seas and returned to freetown as freemen, but because most of them where not shipped to the new world they still knew their tribes and most knew their religion hence the word " muslim" yoruba,  upon settling in freetown the mosque became the centre for all social activities amongst this set of people.

Meanwhile there was a lot of christain Yoruba's they quickly integrated with the krios, although u know them by their Yoruba  names.


The musim community stood on their own for along time b4 they started integrating more recently.


They are like some  runaway slaves who ran to the mountains in Jamaice most of them still bare their ghanian  names.  

My question is WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF THEIR MONEY?

What business are they engaged in? how long has the business run?

They are involve in the biz of goverment at least the senior saraki was a senator in the 2nd repubic and the son was in charge of the biggest bank vault haulage in africa, and to cap it he is a 2 term governor who has been involved in the business of governance for 8 years, Why ask such an obvious question, even a bind man knows what biz the saraki's are involve in.

With nostalgia Alhaji revealed that they were the tribe that started “Ashobie” which has been used now by everybody else for weddings and other celebrations.
He pointed out that they have very rich cultural celebrations for naming ceremony -‘Khomojade’, wedding and the observance of the three-day, seven-day and forty-day after burial.


The non Yorubas in Nigeria even though they have consiously or un-consiously adopted the culture of the yorubas like aso ebie and Igele which is now common currency across all over Nigeria should be grateful to the Yorubas for this contribution which is now seen as a national thing rather than a yoruba thing.

I am always very proud of being a Yoruba when I see Igbo women and Hausa women tie their Igele's in society weddings, I hope we will get more accolades from our Igbo and Huasa sisters from this unique dressing style that has been embraced by the whole nation.

@Mukina
These houses are either board or stone houses with an upper room attached with a window which is known in local circles as “Kongosa Window” where most times the oldest member of the family who occupies such houses would position themselves to scrutinize every activity that goes on in the community, - and now and then deliver the greeting “e Karroh” (Yoruba word for ‘how are you’) to passers by, mostly when they want to be recognized.


Do u people greet using the word "e karroh" in creole,

what poll?

A poll that even becomerich can vote 5 times if he likes with his numerous IDs. Keep fooling yourself.

If you want me to ensure Obi closes on ngige in the next 2 hours I can do that by simply creating 20 emails right now.

Ngige might win, Obi also can.

BUT THIS POLL IS NEVER A REFLECTION O|F THE WILL OF ANAMBRA PEOPLE.



This is a straw poll it is use to harness and test the popularity of each of the candidates, in most developed society the actual results rearly differs from the straw poll result.

For e.g the Labour goverment in the UK already know it will take a miracle for them to win the a general election which is a year from now, this is as a result of the straw poll conducted,  and on each every occasion the results were always the same the labour party seems to be 15% behind the conservatives.

However having said that it looks going by the comments made, it appears Soludo has the most positive comments yet it does not reflect on the poll results it could either be that some Ngige supporters are voting without making any comment or some people like u rightly said have multiple ID's. It will be sad that an innocent and harmless exercise such as this is subject to fraud and rigging I choose not to beleive that line of thinking, but if it were true then Nigeria as a nation will soon be an endangered entity.

On the other hand it is actually interesting and peculiar for us Muslim Yorubas to claim ourselves as creoles with Muslim names like Mohamed Cole, Mucktaru Pearce, Osman Thomas, Saptieu King

I really find this name funny Mohammed Cole,

Hey i was born and bred in Foulah ton and we are called Oku


What does Oku mean ,

http://awoko.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,print,0&cntnt01articleid=1879&cntnt01showtemplate=false&cntnt01returnid=34


Categories: Feb-18-08
      Date: Feb 18, 2008
     Title: “Foulah Tong”: Creole or Yoruba land

Alhaji Abu Bakar Hamid

What is now the heartland of the Eastend stretching off from main Kissy Road overlooking the Queen Elizabeth II quay and dreaded for its nerve racking - jostling traffic of vehicles, motor bikes and people was in the early 1700s a lush green hilly slope on which densely populated pastoral Foulah traders grazed their cows – hence the name Fullah Tong. They did not occupy the land for long.





The Foulah Tong Mosque

What is now the heartland of the Eastend stretching off from main Kissy Road overlooking the Queen Elizabeth II quay and dreaded for its nerve racking - jostling traffic of vehicles, motor bikes and people was in the early 1700s a lush green hilly slope on which densely populated pastoral Foulah traders grazed their cows – hence the name Fullah Tong.
They did not occupy the land for long.
“Freed slaves, recaptives and business people mostly Yoruba’s from Lagos and Abeokuta in Nigeria came into Sierra Leone during the 1700s and from the mouth of the Quay – since the most popular form of transport those days was by sea – they moved into Foulah tong and later spread into Fourah bay and Aberdeen,” Alhaji Abu Bakarr Hamid a revered son of the early Yoruba settlers who has spent the whole of his 58 years in the Foulah tong community recalled.
As the new group of settlers started building houses and cutting down the trees to expand the community, the Foulahs gradually left because the land was no longer suitable for rearing cows.
“They went further east to Kissy which was then still bushy” said Alhaji Hamid.
The Yorubas had founded a home, and Foulah tong became aYoruba hegemony with the culture and everything -Yoruba except the name.
These early Yoruba settlers were mainly Muslims probably that is why the Foulah Tong mosque became the epicenter of the community.
There are very many streets like tree branches shooting out from the main street (Mountain cut) named - First Street, Second Street, Third Street… and it seemed when they were tired of counting they gave typical Yoruba names to the streets, like Haderudeen Street.
Foulah tong in Freetown still bears the relics of colonialism captured in the architecture of the houses.
These houses are either board or stone houses with an upper room attached with a window which is known in local circles as “Kongosa Window” where most times the oldest member of the family who occupies such houses would position themselves to scrutinize every activity that goes on in the community, - and now and then deliver the greeting “e Karroh” (Yoruba word for ‘how are you’) to passers by, mostly when they want to be recognized.
Sadly though, many of these houses were lost, thanks to the January 6 invasion by rebels in Freetown, who burnt them, causing the landscape to now be increasingly dotted with modern architecture.
The Foulah Tong Mosque
The mosque stands stoutly on top of the hill on Mountain cut and Second Street. There had been claims that the mosque was a converted church, but Alhaji Hamid dispelled this.
He disclosed that the mosque was actually built in 1882, further up the mountain and not where it is presently located.
In those days Alhaji Hamid recalled there were serious persecutions in the community by Christians who considered non Christians as pagans.
“So there was a palaver and the Mosque was burnt down by these Christians.”
Another mosque was built opposite the mosque now but was again demolished after some years because it was not big enough.
Finally they built the massive structure which is what is now the Foulah Tong mosque and maintained the 1882 date as its establishment.” Alhaji Hamid narrated.
Amariah Primary School he said was also built in 1887 by Dr Blyden who saw the need for education and that the land was donated for the project by twins - Alhassan and Alusine.
The mosque and the school he said to a large extent came to mold the life, civilization and education of the Yoruba people in the Foulah Tong community.
The Former President of Sierra Leone, Tejan Kabbah was confirmed to have attended the Amariah Primary School, though he was not a Yoruba, others were the late Dr Sanusi Mustapha, Late Justice Nasiru Alghalie, Late Justice Bankole Rashid and Dr Aroun Daniya.
Alhaji said that the school was refurbished in 1997 by Plan International and that the whole community still uses the school’s playground to observe the feast of Eid-ul-ada.
A fading culture
“I think that the failure of the government to recognize Yoruba as one of the national languages was one of the pivotal agents that is killing the Yoruba people and language in this country,” Alhaji argued.
He disclosed that he could not speak the language as fluently as he wished to and it is getting worse with their own children.
“We found out now that we have to claim Creole and speak krio to properly identify ourselves in Sierra Leone other than that we are Yoruba and Nigerians (foreigners).
On the other hand it is actually interesting and peculiar for us Muslim Yorubas to claim ourselves as creoles with Muslim names like Mohamed Cole, Mucktaru Pearce, Osman Thomas, Saptieu King.
The Christian Creoles always think that they are the pure and original Creole people, but actually we are all brothers and sisters and came from the same origin with the same culture.” Alhaji Hamid explained.
He continued that the expanding natures of communities in cities, Freetown not excluded has unknotted the threads that held them as a cultural society.
Alhaji Hamid said that Foulah Tong had become cosmopolitan, in fact a home to many tribes than Yoruba, and that most of their properties have been sold out to other people so with the mix they cannot operate as a different entity with different cultural values but to move on and imbibe the various life styles and culture of other people.
With nostalgia Alhaji revealed that they were the tribe that started “Ashobie” which has been used now by everybody else for weddings and other celebrations.
He pointed out that they have very rich cultural celebrations for naming ceremony -‘Khomojade’, wedding and the observance of the three-day, seven-day and forty-day after burial.
“The unbraided ‘kaftan’ had been our cultural dress and bread and ‘fourah’ the delicacies served in all of our celebrations. The Ojeh and Hunting society was also introduced by the yorubas”
But all of theses are changing now Alhaji sighed, “The western culture is also affecting us, many of our children are overseas and they cannot keep these cultures. We hope that our heritage does not die out completely.
What they still have is the ‘Adikali’, the head of the court and the head of the community all in one.
The present Adikalie is Dr Fadlu Deen and his function is to settle all disputes brought to him ranging from land dispute, family palaver to marital problems but he seldom uses the ‘Tambaleh’ (traditional drum) only to announce the death of a very important personality or the day for pray-days.
However amidst all the changes of landscape, people, and culture Foulah Tong continues to sit on the hills stoically accepting the transformations as they come and waiting for the day its own name will be changed.
By Mohamed Fofanah

Isn`t it obvious dat Many people in the PDP do not want Soludo 2 be at the helms.
Why?  Soludo will be his own man.People like Chris Uba is still fumming abt wat will happen
2 his Account balance if Soludo shld gt d Office.

Am fully in support of Soludo irrespective of turn around turner like Ngige seems 2 be.
Though d media is so unfair to Soludo.I see him winning and changing d fortunes of my State.
Any sound individual knws wat my Prof will achieve for Anambra,




Don’t worry u will still get your wish, with Ngige going neck on neck with Soludo in a forum like this which is highly critical of any misdemeanours, it goes without saying that Soludo will get the mandate when the PDP rigging machinery gets going.

For Ngige to grasp power he will have to win with an overwhelming majority, Fashola style I do not see that happening. It will be a re-run of the Oni / Fayemi race of Ekiti State a very close race but  PDP Winner will emerge as the overall winner, after all we all know the winner takes all.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that his father was behind the demise of The President's late brother.


The President and his brother where not the best of friends there was a lot of envy amongst them, the President will vouch for Ibori’s innocence that support his Brother. M. Abacha will be PDP’’s candidate.

Story don change because you just noticed he was in the hit squad that tortured one of your own.

Oh naija. . . we may never get it.


Which tory change. It does not matter whether the person is Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa, if that person is alive and the person dosen’t come out and complain, then there is no case.

The Man can go on and become the Governor, after all no be me he torture.

if u knw say e fit win

win ke, I suppose with N35 million in my bank I suppose he don win in a way,