Watering Down the Hate, Genocidal Rhetoric

The OP or poster is being diplomatic, or at best, disingenuous. The woman was very specific. She said she would poison YORUBA and EDO people, with stress on Yoruba people.

Let's call her out for whom she is- an idiot, a psychopath.

She didn't generalize it. She was intentional and unabashed about it.

Blacks, Endangered by Institutional Racism

The late Kenyan intellectual, Prof. Ali Mazrui once asserted that racism would continue to exist anywhere white people live with black people- the US, no less. Until the perpetrators of such dastardly acts are made to face the roughness of the law, like for like, racism will continue to thrive no matter the lip service paid to it.

The Harbinger of Good Fortunes for Black Boxers

I read his story more than 25 years ago in Ebony Magazine.

He was so fast that he would hit an opponent with a particular hand and then defend or block with the same hand.

He was obsessed with speed. He loved fast cars, fast women etc.

He literally paved the way for other black boxers like Ali, Frazer and more.

@Dubetex96, it's obvious you don't know about geopolitics. What's the fuzz about sane climes? Ronald was how old when he became the president of the US? Nelson Mandela was how old when he became president?

Stop being one-sided because a narrative helps u to perpetuate a lie. Any mortal can fall. You saw the list and were not happy that other world leaders had suffered similar faith.

You're very upset that your preferred candidate didn't win the 2023 presidential election. That's the source of your bitterness.

@gistray, who needs your validation anyway? Who's more progressive between the Yoruba and the Igbo? Even the rest of the world sees the Yoruba as the most progressive ethnicity in Africa. If not Nigeria that forced us together, we shouldn't be having this conversation in the first place. After all, your kinsmen throng Lagos and other SW states for economic and social survival. We don't even want to have anything to do with you guys, as we don't align culturally, socially and politically.

And the north that u denigrate is even more progressive than your now-socially and environmentally-disadvantaged South East.

When you attacked that north, you were not a bigot. But when a Yoruba person countered your weak argument, you flinched and said he's a tribalist. Self-righteousness runs culturally within you people.

@illicit, are you surprised by his ignorance, on the one hand, and its hate for something Yoruba on the other hand?

It's part of the season of cultural appropriation by these easterners. Why didn't he praise Okpa on its own. Okpa is a good food. In fact, some would prefer it to moi-moi. However, moi-moi, laced with all the condiments and 7 spirits of culinary, as you said, is in a world of its own. Nothing compares to it.

Igbos try to garner relevance for their fading culture by associating these fading things with the Yoruba's.

Let Igbos eat their okpa and let the Yoruba or whoever, salivate over the lingering aroma of our assorted moi-moi.

Two-fold or Ambiguous Answer

The interpretation or grammatical meaning has too answers. Either of them could be drunk. It depends on the viewpoint. To remove any ambiguity,the sentence will have to be reconstructed.

@LibertyRe, you need to wake up and smell the coffee. After the sickening attitude of Igbos against Yoruba people in their own land, Lagos, during the last general elections, things are beginning to change. Ounje Eko is a timeless reminder that Lagos is Yoruba land. If this offends your sensibilities, you can simply refuse to buy from such subsidised market, or you might just leave Lagos.

Things are no longer the same!!!

@seunmsg, thanks for enlightening him. These days, as always, I see a lot of nonsense comments, devoid of logic, gaining likes, quotes and shares.

Take a look at Bloomberg's report in its entirety- where is the propaganda there? When will the sentiment-smitten separate their feelings from rationality?

The fact is that the reforms are beginning to bear fruits. And hopefully, they will translate into deliverables for the citizens. But because their preferred candidate lost the last election, they've elected to be in denial mode.

Deal with it!!!

Be Ready To Take What You Dish Out

I saw the two vids on Twitter, now X. She succinctly abused Yoruba people. She wasn't ready for the counter lamba. Yoruba get lamba aplenty. In reaction, one of the respondents compared her to a bouncer because of her muscular upper body. Clearly, she couldn't swallow it. Thus, she became depressed, drained emotionally. It's similar to how her kinsmen cower when they meet a bigger counter jibes from people they abuse.

The Words of a Sage and The Reactions of Congealed Minds

It's been a while I learnt my opinion to NL. More often than not, I see a lot of stupid, drab and oft childish reactions - very short on substance or common sense, but very long on stupidity and words.

What Soyinka has said is not for idiots, the slow-to- understand and dimwits to understand. You've got to read it slowly to let it sink.

In a nutshell, he decries the merry-go-round of constitutional reforms, propped up as restructuring by successive governments. He also advocates a decentralisation of responsibilities. In a situation where the centre holds too tightly to resources and responsibilities, humanity suffers, as is evident in Nigeria.

In the rush to quickly comment, many on NL don't read posts well enough to grasp it. So, in a knee-jerk reaction posture, some spew out a lot of nonsense.

This generation doesn't read enough. Hence, it's difficult for its young people to really sieve facts from fiction, substance from shadow.

@Rostikol, thanks for educating him. You know there are a lot of ill-educated people here, who just rush to comment, and in the process, goof heavily, with their stupidity, and well, their ignorance showing.

That's why I suggested to Seun to deploy an AI technology to sieve out some of these inconsequential posts.

Rape Taking On An Extended Definition In A Pervasive State

If it's forceful vaginal or anal penetration, for me, that's rape. However, if it's forceful kissing or other bodily violation, then it's not RAPE. At the same time such violations should be heavily punished.

It's just like groping a woman in a queue or on a bus. That's not rape, but sexual violation. It should be severely punished.

Many people won't agree with New York's landmark judgement, not least because it's strange but because if will totally redefine, in more ways than one, the art and act of sex.

And how about sadomasochist, who derive sexual pleasures from being hurt or hurting someone? This people dey play.

@Bovis, abi u see am. He's been able to keep his cognition sharp.

Kongi And The Beatification of Intellectual Emptiness

It's only sane, astute minds that will be able to grasp the very essence of what Soyinka is saying. It's a broth not for the consumption of weak, empty and oft insipid minds, even if they eat from the broth piecemeal by piecemeal.

WS will be 90 on July 13, God willing. I want to ask how many of those attacking him here for expressing his thoughts can auction a fraction of his intellect? Some empty-headed insouciant singlet boys just sit down somewhere and spew out rubbish, without any consideration for sound judgement. Yet these deprived souls are beatified with likes and shares.

FRA Williams, Once Africa's Ablest Lawyer, Now It's Wole

A white man once gave the late FRA Williams that accolade. He was one of the finest alongside Gani Fawehinmi and others.

Now, Wole Olanipekun is stepping into those shoes, following in his footsteps.

After the presidential election, when Obi and Atiku were warming up to challenge Tinubu's victory at the courts, the moment I saw WO's name, I knew it was over for the two sore losers.

His knowledge of the law profession as it relates to election disputes and resolutions is second to none at the moment.

The Dynamics of Otilo In Betta-gate

She was politically naive and financially reckless.

Money, when held in trust, is a potential stain, that can easily smear one.

What was she thinking whilst making all those frivolous withdrawals? In the age of forensic accounting, any money moved would be detected easily.

The moment the memo leaked, she should have fallen on her sword and resign honourably.

With all due respect to the women of this age, it seems they are hung on vanities. What was she gonna do with all those monies anyway?

Her last ditch attempt at reaching the president is a lame attempt to swim above troubled waters while drowning. But the dynamics of otilo has already played out, triggered largely by the public who were alarmed at such level of corruption.

@Burob, thank you.

The Essence of Governance Lost on Governors

He's absolutely right. Security votes are for security concerns. For instance, in a case of kidnappings, the governor can use part of that money to hire mercenaries or some special forces to rescue the victims. But no, these governors- irresponsible as always- divert these monies into personal accounts for frivolities, always waiting irresponsibly for the federal government to do everything for them.

Yes, the centre has the bigger responsibility of securing the nation, but why on earth are governors there? To make up the numbers at Federal Executive Council meeting every Thursday in Abuja? Or yet still, to just be associated with that title: Governor! Your excellency?

@Keme4Real, and what's so special in the diction it make up of the speech? I could write a much better speech within 5 minutes of demand. Your inadequacy as a person is not necessarily immediately consequent on another person.

Can we separate sentiments from truth and objectivity? I notice that because he wasn't the preferred candidate of Obidients, he's easily picked on.

Tinubu is a bright mind. He's capable of writing even better ones. But as it is the norm with many leaders, his speech writer wrote it. But that doesn't mean he can't write it.

If I became the president of Nigeria tomorrow, I would write my speech in 5 minutes.

My Rollercoaster Yes

Amazing!!!

Robbed Of His Time, Youth, And Justice

Forty eight years in a man's life is almost two generations. In effect, he was economically and socially killed.

The justice system perverted justice here ironically. As he said, what is done can't be undone.

This the second black that has gone on such a long haul of perverted justice in terms of prison terms.

There was a black guy who spent 38 yrs in prison. It was posted on NL, I think last year or so.

Is the system targeting blacks? Or are black kids becoming too insouciant that they fall into these- I don't want to believe they are- traps?

Whichever way we see it, this guy was literally robbed of his life and existence. And no amount of apology and compensation would make up for the lost time.

* I'm so glad that our beloved Nairaland is back. Shame on all naysayers, particularly those on Twitter, wishing that the issue that took it down would never be resolved.

@ecolime,it's borne out of sheer jealousy. And that's the issue with the Igbos in Yoruba land or those aspiring to come.

The Igbos always try to have their cake and eat it. They fail to build bridges amongst the tribes of Nigeria. They envy and detest the Yoruba, whilst at the same time, lustfully covet Lagos. They morbidly hate the northerners and see them as inferior mortals.

Tinubu made a mistake, with hindsight, forming an inclusive government. Igbos don't appreciate anything u do for them. I've lived with them and I also work with them.

The Yoruba have learnt to be pragmatic in dealing with non-Yoruba, the Igbos, no less.

As a fallout from the presidential election, where Labour Party won Lagos, and the bellowing of victory by Igbos in the face of the Yoruba, the Yoruba, instinctively have gone into self-preservation mode. That's why SanwoOlu's cabinet doesn't have any Igbo as commissioner- and justifiably so. Igbos have nothing of claim to Lagos. Lagos is both a social and economic refuge to them. They didn't make Lagos. Lagos made them. They can't survive without Lagos. But Lagos stands as long as this earth remains.

If I were Tinubu, I would either not release him or release him and put him under close surveillance, where his every move is monitored. And I think Tinubu would be magnanimous if he released him, because Kanu sought to kill him.

The Igbos should redefine their relationship with other tribes. They are too self-contained and self-assured.

Vanities Of Life, Power, Vanity Itself, And My Disappointment With Aketi

I had expected Aketi to transfer executive powers to his deputy the moment he became incapacitated. Illness respects no one. In effect, any mortal can fall into the sinking throes of illness. However, Aketi, nudged on by his close allies- his wife, no less- clung on near-ruthlessly to power, rubbishing the very ideal he rapturously extolled when he was the Nigerian Bar Association President.

It's always easy to criticize and smear those in power, but soon enough or ultimately, one finds oneself trapped in the very ideal one once attacked.

The balance and dynamics of power have swung too far towards politicians, not governance, and certainly not towards the masses- the very essence of government. The focus is too much on the individual instead of the institution. Thus, the obsession with power of our politicians, even in the face of death.

A True Hero And Star Of June 12 Has Fallen

Oh, dear! I'm grieved by his passing. A true hero and fighter. He fought the military regimes to a standstill. More remarkably, he, through, collective bargaining, NUPENG, almost paralyzed IBB's regime, forcing him to 'step aside'

Kokori, the bell Tolls for you!!!

You were a true patriot, who built
Bridges and fought for the Powerless.

Rest on! Rest in Power!

Your legacy is set
In the stars.

Tinubu's New Deal And The Knee-Jerk Reactions Of Hollow Men On Nairaland

He had planned for this a couple of months back. This is similar to what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did from 1933, when he became President of the US. America was still grappling with the effects of The Great Depression from 1929.


In his New Deal, he pumped about 800 millon USD into the economy. People were able to get soft loans. Gradually, the economy, helped , in part, by production for WW2, picked up.


What the economy needs now is injection of funds so that people -small businesses and medium-scale ones alike-can get credit .


Before I responded, I didn't see any sensible or astute response on NL. It was the usual hollowness of naysayers, whose humdrum rants do no one any good.


If you feel, there better ways of managing the economy at this time, let's see ur proposal.

@ariesbull, your argument is too narrow. Those names have little to do with nationhood. Marco Polo, Vasco Da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, whose first name, America emerged from, Sir Walter Raleigh etc, were all explorers. They explored, but didn't colonise the lands they discovered. California is a Spanish word, so is Los Angeles, the city of angels. Spaniards never make claims they founded or own the US, as some tribes are irresponsibly doing here.

People are just too mentally lazy to study. So, in most cases, rely on their received knowledge from beer palour.

When Ignorance Becomes Stupidity

I've often argued that the blacks are the most stupid of all races. I say this with the most level of responsibility, and justifiably so.

When the Bini Oba made that preposterous claim, I was stunned, not least because of his ignorance, but because of the lack of reference, scholarship in his claim.

In the Awori monarch's counterclaim, one could see that he carefully set out his references- which included some foreign scholars. This is how to win an argument, not by wilfully parroting some disjointed oral claims, handed down from generations .

The history the Bini monarch cited is hazy and deeply flawed. It's well documented that the Aworis were the first settlers in Lagos. And when the Portuguese came in 1472, they met them. The Binis didn't come until 15 sth.


All it would take the monarch and the many lame-brains in this humdrum nonsense was to crosscheck history, with cross references. But no, they clearly were out to push forward a false narrative.

Many countries, throughout its history, either colonized England, or had some interaction with it: Julius Ceaser's Rome in the 5th century BC, the Germans ,the Vikings, and the French, the Norman conquest of 1066 AD. But none of this is laying claim that it founded or has any special right to England.

The black man, sadly, is just too stupid to read, to learn, to go on a lengthy effort of study.

In fact, geography has helped us to delineate these entities. Hence, the 6 geo-political zones. By implication, the Southwest , where Lagos sits, is the original home of the Yoruba. What's the argument about the covetous Binis laying claim to it that they founded it, even if they are culturally closer to the Yoruba?

@uuzba, exactly. That's why I said 'being catholic in a multicultural world.' People tend to be too closed-minded culturally, limiting their. loyalties to their tribes or cultures. Thus, they find it difficult to adapt to their new environment and status.

@mascot87, the person who opined the strength of stupid people in the majority was a dangerous but clear thinker. I'm sure those people throwing mud at the speech didn't read it, or they couldn't grasp the content therein, since their brains are so attuned to oblique distractions.

How could a straight-thinking mortal say the speech is empty? Worse still, how could another slow-thinking being say the budget is all talk? Doesn't he know- well, he may be bereft of such knowledge - that budgets are proposals, projected expectations from targeted revenues, say from crude oil sales, taxes from the ports and, in certain cases, borrowings. Half-baked education is a cancer.

Being Catholic In A Multicultural World, With Imbalances In One's Own Culture

I've tried to offer my own humble answer in my title. You're narrowing your choices where u have nonsense of options: whites, blacks, hispanics, Aussies, Indians etc, etc..

Since women from ur kin don't want to date u, possibly because they've been culturally wired to see relationships as material transactions, then you should be open-minded to women of other races and cultures.

These women, who may happen to be much better socially and financially, would oblige u, I'm certain, in a heartbeat.

We have a dysfunctional culture, sadly. It's the culture of gender consumption, where everything is seen through the prism of how-do-I-maximize this relationship materially? from the mundane boyfriend-girlfriend relationship to marriage.

These days, when I see women in their. 40s still single, I no longer have empathy for them. Most of them, it seems, have traded their choices.